From Wikipedia: In February 2007, the central bank of Zimbabwe declared inflation "illegal", outlawing any raise in prices on certain commodities between 1 March and 30 June 2007. Officials have arrested executives of some Zimbabwean companies for increasing prices on their products. Economists generally suspect...(Read more...)
Fascinating three-part interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace in 1959. If you haven't seen it, this is definitely worth watching. And if you have, it is worth watching again! You get a real feel for Rand not only as a sharp, perceptive and original thinker, but also as one who responds in a measured, respectful tone to ...(Read more...)
Fascinating three-part interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace in 1959. If you haven't seen it, this is definitely worth watching. And if you have, it is worth watching again! You get a real feel for Rand not only as a sharp, perceptive and original thinker, but also as one who responds in a measured, respectful tone t...(Read more...)
Serbian poet-psychiatrist-psychopath Radovan Karadzic (rhymes with "garage-itch") has been arrested after a 12 year manhunt. (He is pictured here hiding under a badger.) European authorities expect to hold him until he commits suicide from sheer boredom, as did his fellow traveller, Slobodan Milosevic, (rhymes with "...(Read more...)
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Israel gives back 5 live soldiers in exchange for 2 dead ones. This is just incomprehensibly stupid to me. Are they just that sentimental about having the dead bodies back for some religious reason? The least they could have done was to shoot the 5 soldiers before exchanging them!(Read more...)
Washington Post Editorial: BARACK OBAMA yesterday accused President Bush and Sen. John McCain of rigidity on Iraq: "They said we couldn't leave when violence was up, they say we can't leave when violence is down." Mr. Obama then confirmed his own foolish consistency. Early last year, when the war was at its peak...(Read more...)
