Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Excellent special report from the USDA's Office of Chief Economist: "The Economic Feasibility of Ethanol Production From Sugar in the United States". This 78-page report has detailed cost and conversion factors.
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
This article was reprinted in the Tribune the other day. While I have an accounting degree, I haven't paid attention to tax issues for a long time. I know what a 1031 exchange is, but I have to admit that the import of this Rule change escapes me. (The proposed changes ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2005
This is an interesting take on the effectiveness of child restraints in vehicles.
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
If so, you're in luck, as Beloit College in WI has released their annual Mindset List, which talks about incoming college freshmen.
Selected highlights:
2. They don’t remember when “cut and paste†involved scissors.
5. Boston has been working on the “big dig†all their lives.
15. Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker have never ...
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
Here's some stuff that's been sitting in the draft folder that I haven't had the time to really expound on:
The American Spectator - Internet Cowards
OPINION: The Making Of A 9/11 Republican
Heather Mac Donald on Diversity & Blogosphere on National Review Online
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Sleep apnea is something I know a little bit about; since I have it.
It does all kinds of weird stuff to you, including bumping up your blood pressure, making you feel like you have a hangover every morning, and a whole host of other things. My blood pressure was ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005
David Summerlin passed along this short story that was written in 1909.
Give it a read if you've got some time. It's very prescient.
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
In this piece in the Village Voice, Nat Hentoff takes a look at the Terri Schiavo situation in a larger context. It's definitely worth a read.
(H/T: Cao.)
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Monday, March 21st, 2005
Don't miss this missive from the future.
As I've said before, I welcome our new Googlian overlords.
Too bad we couldn't ask John Titor if this actually came about. I guess we'll have to time travel the old-fashioned way: one second forward at a time.
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
Hey Dave, you went and saw President Bush, are you going to try to see Carrot Top?
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
The M&M Bar in Butte is open again, so all is right in the world today.
So Faith and Begorrah, Erin go Bragh and all that stuff.
[UPDATE: 0626]: You can catch a webcam live at the M&M.
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
It looks like the the tax breaks for Tinseltown that I talked about this past summer are step closer to becoming reality.
I'm not going to rehash my take on it, but I just wanted to share this with you:
Rep. Jill Cohenour, D-East Helena, said the plan could be a particular ...
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Friday, March 11th, 2005
I don't know what everyone else did to celebrate International Women's Day, but I made my pregnant Spousal Unit™ rake the back yard.
Hey, it needed to be done.
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Friday, March 11th, 2005
I never saw it, but I remember the ads for "Heart Condition," a flick where a bigoted cop (Bob Hoskins) gets a heart transplant from a black lawyer (Denzel Washington). Part of the premise, as I recall, was that Hoskins' character started taking on some of Washington's character's attributes. ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
Yeah, I've got 'em.
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