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Archive of entries posted on 5th February 2015
The Anti-Lucas
There’s Precedent for Concern
Fox News’s Bret Baier noted that, on the Paris terror attacks, Hillary Clinton “hasn’t piped up at all”.
Truth is, no reporters will ask her any uncomfortable questions. They’re afraid it’ll give her a concussion.
Government Tech
Link of the Day: True – 8 Complaints Real Colonists Had About British Rule
[High Praise! to Mental Floss]
8 Complaints Real Colonists Had About British Rule
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I’d Buy That For a Dollar!
It’s a new EconPop! This time, it’s about the movie RoboCop and the subject of public goods. And I think it’s got a pretty awesome cold open. Give it look; you have 20 seconds to comply.
BTW, working on some really cool stuff with Emergent Order. I know I’ve been saying that for a while, but eventually you will get to see the fruits of my new day job.
Don’t Know How They’ll Make Amends
The Medical Director of Britain’s NHS said they “may be forced to abandon free care for all”.
Good start. Just 11 more steps to go.
Obama Warned Us – Doing Everything
“I will keep doing everything I can to help more working families make ends meet and get ahead.” —President Obama http://ofa.bo/t2g3
“So… if they aren’t working anymore… I don’t have to help. Hmmm… I’ll try that.”
Straight Line of the Day: Buried Deep in Obama’s Latest Budget Proposal…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Buried deep in Obama’s latest budget proposal…
Robert A. Heinlein Plus Mickey Spillane?
Roy “Griff” Griffis has a really nice review of my first novel, Superego. You should be excited to read it — which technically you can do right now. Or listen to, as there is a really well done audio version. But we haven’t started the official promotion yet, which is why I haven’t been mentioning it a lot. But soon. And then reading it and writing a great review on Amazon will be mandatory. I’ve wanted to be a novelist long before I started blogging, so this is a pretty big deal for me. And this is just the first novel of many to come (which will hopefully include a sequel to Superego).
Also, check out Griffis’s novel, The Big Bang, which I read and it’s pretty awesome, kind of Red Dawn with Islamists. You all like reading, right? I mean, that’s what you’re doing right now.
Random Thoughts: Brian Williams
If you’re worried about the effects of vaccines, you should get a vaccine vaccine.
This is Brian Williams’s worst day since he had to kill his love Jean Grey with his adamantium claws.
What a magical world it would be if you actually could easily mistake things you heard of for things you did. #BrianWilliams
This has to be tough to watch for Brian Williams’s family and his longtime girlfriend who we never met because she goes to a different school.
“Sorry, there was some confusion. My helicopter was not hit with an RPG… because I karate-chopped that RPG out of the sky!”
This whole Brian Williams thing is making me think of that one episode of The IT Crowd. “I’m disabled!”
Perhaps there’s confusion over the acronym RPG. Maybe Williams’s helicopter had to land because of an out of control game of Dungeons & Dragons.
There’s a Reason He’s Right
In a recent speech, President Obama sounded an optimistic tone on the economy, saying “the shadow of crisis has passed”.
Well, it IS hard to cast shadows when it’s gone completely dark.