The Gordian Knot and other Impossible Riddles

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 25 Oktober 2008 0 komentar
It seems I am the expert on things economic. Ha ha ha. Actually I'm the furthest thing from it. I never understood economics. Curiously enough, I did it in high-school as a major and did quite well at it. I even momentarily considered studying it at uni. But the truth is, I never got it. It was like I knew how to use a sextant to find a true midday, but I didn't care what time it was, nor knew why...

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wondering through google

Posted by Unknown Rabu, 22 Oktober 2008 0 komentar
People arrive at this blog through various means. In what is effectively both a blessing and a curse, I am able to see how people come here via statcounter. This is simultaneously fascinating and frustrating. It's a bit like getting a snippet of a conversation but failing to grasp what it's about.The majority of people come here as 'no referring link'. This means they've bookmarked me. And it's nice...

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this thing

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 17 Oktober 2008 0 komentar
I grew up as a variant of soft right-winger. I started reading Time magazine when I was ten and went on subscribe for decades. To a greater or lesser degree its world view was mine - Vietnam was lost because of the protest movement; Palestinians were wicked troublemakers; WWII was a good war; coloured people couldn't organise a shitfight in a brewery and were responsible for their own woes; white...

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I can't help laughing at myself.

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 14 Oktober 2008 0 komentar
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Jackson and the bankers

Posted by Unknown Rabu, 08 Oktober 2008 0 komentar
I spent this morning clicking links in Encyclopaedia Brittanica. I used to revere Brittanica but no longer. The complete absence of an entry for David Sassoon says all there is that needs to be said. But it's not completely worthless. In leaping about from James Madison, to the war of 1812, to Andrew Jackson, I came upon Jackson's farewell speech. Via the net, I've read a great deal about the history...

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