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Feb.01.2013
I'm re-reading "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" for a short story I'm working on, and a couple of things strike me:
1. As I'm reading it, I keep thinking that this translation just doesn't seem to be as good as the translation of "Human Action", which I remember as being...
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Jan.17.2013
You have to wonder about the mix of marketing, corporation, progressivism, social contract, and anarcho libertarianism that seems to represent the bizzare amalgam that is Whole Foods. I mean, where else do you find the CEO of a company dedicated (or at least in all of its marketing) to the...
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Jan.03.2013
Crowds are rushing to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum these days to experiece the amazing display of China's Terracotta Warriors: the Legacy of the First Emperor. Much more has been uncovered in that vast burial site since we were in...
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Nov.20.2012
Pravda, the famous Russian political newspaper that is associated with the Communist Party, considers the Obama Administration to be socialist.
For anyone left in the USA who voted for Obama because they believed he was a Democrat and not a Socialist, it is of interest to note what the news...
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Nov.10.2012
Young voters in America. Informed and intelligent -- it is a relief that the destiny of this country is finally in their hands now. (I remember how important phones were to me when I was their age, but all we had back then were those clunky, heavy, really well-made phones that lasted a lifetime...
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Sep.04.2012
I have a deal for you. I'll give you $1.00 and you give me $1.61. Sound fair? Of course it does. But that's what we do here in America.
We're attempting to reduce our Federal deficit here in the United States, and do so without raising taxes on the wealthy, although other tax increases, if...
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Jul.25.2012
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise was given a tentative thumbs-down by the literati of the day, most not understanding what Fitzgerald was trying to accomplish. And even today it’s not a...
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Feb.06.2012
A utopian paradise is possible as long as there are no people. The Shakers had it, but they all died out because sex was not an option, not even for procreation. No sex = no offspring = oblivion for the sect.
Thomas More died for his utopian beliefs, and because he wouldn't agree that King Henry...
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Aug.26.2011
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Anna Karenina – Section One, by Leo Tolstoy
I always start a book slowly - I have to get a feel for the writer's style, the characters, setting, and some idea of where the book will lead me. But I've now finished Section One of Anna Karenina and have these comments:
Tolstoy...
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Apr.07.2011
Pubished in 1963, SAGN was Ken Kesey's second book. He must have written chunks of it while on LSD, because of the herky-jerky wildness of some passages. (At Standford in 1959, he was paid by the CIA to experiment with LSD.)
(Leland) "Can I possibly go back and wrest from my past some...
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