Weaponized Keynesians
Krugman (and Yglesias and Brian Beutler at TPM) are especially on point on this subject. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/opinion/bombs-bridges-and-jobs.html
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Ride
I swear I already sent this. Oh well. Here it is again, from the middle of my 5 hour motorcycle ride on Saturday.
Ride, also.
I finally put my bicycle back together. Replaced rear brake and derailleur cables and housings, and everything seems to be OK. All that's left is to buy some wire cutters and snip off the extra cable length, as my big Leatherman only serves to crimp and fray it. Upcoming plans that might interest you: Motorcycle ride to Lake Baringo next weekend, supposedly beautiful and full of crocs and hippos. Then Nov. 19 and 20 there's a mountain bike race at Sipi Falls, a beautiful set of 3 falls on the Ugandan western slopes of Mt. Elgon. Then the weekend of the 26th I'm headed with friends to track gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda, with a day at Lake Bunyonyi after. And basically a week after that I head back to the US for 3 weeks. Philly for meetings, NYC briefly, a day in Monterey to present a paper, then 10 days or so in Oakland. I'd like to leave the US around the 25th so as to benefit from the foreign earned income tax exclusion (if you live outside the US...
Don't Be Lame
1/4 of Yale grads become consultants or financiers. http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/sep/30/even-artichokes-have-doubts/
Back to Normal
Now that I warmed your heart with some animal photos, who's up for some good old fashioned cynicism? You know I am. So much so that at lunch I rattled off my favorite talking points: (1) life is meaningless, (2) all organizations are corrupt, (3) even if development worked, higher GDP doesn't make people any happier, so what's the point? To get a little more specific, the government is trying to weaken the FOIA. https://www.propublica.org/article/government-could-hide-existence-of-records-under-foia-rule-proposal And Mississippi wants to send women and doctors to jail for using IUD's. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/us/politics/personhood-amendments-would-ban-nearly-all-abortions.html Oh, and there's this: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/25/BAUB1LLTC9.DTL Looking forward to a long motorcycle ride this weekend.
