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Is Landsburg for real?
As with any of Professor Landsburg’s arguments, the logic is impeccable, he’s a clever chap. But as with any logical derivation, it is the initial assumptions from which the conclusions are drawn about which we should be wary. In the case of this article, the implicit assumption revolves around just exactly who counts in future generations. The ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by moresexplease on September 15, 2008
Political Bigfoot Cam shots:
What about Bighead Newt Gingrich's Bigfoot love child caught on cam while family fly fishing? Or the Big Stance Larry Craig Bigfoot toilet rendevous caught on a deputy sheriff's sting cam?
Posted to Green Room by Usama2 on August 29, 2008
Business Innovation
I think that one of the greatest steps toward improving our environment is increasing the individuals sense of responsibility toward it. One of the best ways we can do this is by supporting innovative businesses that not only provide us with our desired utility but also benefit the environment. For example, I came across a website ...
Posted to Green Room by Gustavion on July 23, 2008
Re: Plastic bags in China
Contrary to myth, popular belief and those frightened into anything plastic can be reused and in particular reused for fuel (cheaply it seems) Korea has a boiler and burner unit already in production that does just that in the agricultural industry. Reading a blog clearly identifies the ability to convert plastic in landfills to useable fuel ...
Posted to Recycled by travelsapien on June 15, 2008
Beware of the TORCH!!!!!
''the flame's slow assault on the atmosphere'' I've been trying to find the phrase that would perfectly descride the world slow descent down the rabbit hole and now thanks to slate I've found it. Let us please continue to mock are attempts(I be it sometimes flawd) to rid the world of fascist religous fanatic and instead seriously foucs on the ...
Posted to Green Room by Dustin Stepp on April 15, 2008
Re: Oh! the bad weather??
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their LAND.'' I Chron. 7:14
Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on November 2, 2007
Oh! the bad weather??
oh! the bad weather?? ask your Father... (the topic you deny) many of you are wise and learned fools, i see..... ''But as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also at the coming of the Son of Man.'' And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 24, 2007
Re: al "Global Warming" Gore
oh, the bad weather?? ask your Father... ''But as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also at the coming of the Son of Man.'' And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 24, 2007
An "inconvenient idiot"
Very very long but..... worth the read.... -when you have time of course- ''you are blind, you are stupid, you are in the dark, in the mist and fog, wandering to and fro like a boat upon the water without sail, rudder or oar; you know not whither you are going.'' ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 23, 2007
Re: What Al doesn't understand about climate
Gosh, I felt it was a rather simplistic article, particularly by Slate's usually high standards. It makes leaps of assumptions itself that lumps things into nice round numbers, a point off growth here, another there, to size up the effects of climate change. And that's the problem. Market economists like Ken Arrow say that we don't cost ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by awakeinwa on October 23, 2007

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