The Breakup Notifier.
No more need to waste hours on Facebook.
Let this be a lesson in economics to us all. In a free market, where there is a need, people will fill it.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
More Money Needed
NEA says: "...particularly in these troubling economic times, investing in education makes both good fiscal sense and good public policy. Funding targeted to quality public schools will see the greatest return on taxpayer money and will strengthen the entire economy."
As seen by the prior post and this chart as well from the Heritage Foundation, NEA is obviously right. Public Schools need more money! I do not understand.
As seen by the prior post and this chart as well from the Heritage Foundation, NEA is obviously right. Public Schools need more money! I do not understand.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Humphrey Bogart
Since watching Play It Again, Sam with my parents, I've thought a little more about Humphrey Bogart and the impact he's had, which is why I was excited to see this book review in the NY Times for a new biography about him called "Tough Without A Gun" by Stefan Kanfer.
"The Bogart we came to know on the screen was mature when he arrived, with compressed emotions, an economy of gesture and a compact grace in movements that were wary and self-contained, as if all the world were not a stage but a minefield. Kanfer’s book takes its title from Raymond Chandler, who approved of the decision to cast Bogart in “The Big Sleep” as Philip Marlowe, the hard-boiled detective he had created, because Bogart could be “tough without a gun.” "
But what was most catching, was The Times' reviewer's final paragraph about culture and film generally:
"Bogart’s appeal was and remains completely adult — so adult that it’s hard to believe he was ever young. If men who take responsibility are hard to come by in films these days, it’s because they’re hard to come by, period, in an era when being a kid for life is the ultimate achievement, and “adult” as it pertains to film is just a euphemism for pornography."
Definitely a succinct summation of a cultural symptom.
"The Bogart we came to know on the screen was mature when he arrived, with compressed emotions, an economy of gesture and a compact grace in movements that were wary and self-contained, as if all the world were not a stage but a minefield. Kanfer’s book takes its title from Raymond Chandler, who approved of the decision to cast Bogart in “The Big Sleep” as Philip Marlowe, the hard-boiled detective he had created, because Bogart could be “tough without a gun.” "
But what was most catching, was The Times' reviewer's final paragraph about culture and film generally:
"Bogart’s appeal was and remains completely adult — so adult that it’s hard to believe he was ever young. If men who take responsibility are hard to come by in films these days, it’s because they’re hard to come by, period, in an era when being a kid for life is the ultimate achievement, and “adult” as it pertains to film is just a euphemism for pornography."
Definitely a succinct summation of a cultural symptom.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Regulators
Recently I've started a subscription to National Review, which I enjoy a lot. At the beginning of every issue, they have a series of paragraphs called "The Week" in which they briefly summarize and review hot news bits. This particular one I thought good enough to repeat in full here with all credit given to the editors:
"Pres. Barack Obama, whose signature achievement in office has been dropping a 1,000 page package of regulations onto the American health-care market, has now decided that there are too many federal regulations, and, with an eye on job growth, has ordered regulators to study the problem. There is a kind of genius at work in that: The regulators already are regulated under regulations derived from the Regulatory Flexibility Act, which requires that regulators, before regulating, study a proposed regulation's impact on small business. To that regulator-regulating regulation, President Obama has added an additional regulation, stipulating that regulators "reduce regulatory burdens on small business." What obviously is needed here are additional regulators to regulate the enforcement of the regulator regulating regulations, which is to say, regulator-regulating-regulation-regulator-regulators. Who says Obama doesn't know how to create jobs?"
The essence of progressive/liberal public policy is: "...but it will work this time."
"Pres. Barack Obama, whose signature achievement in office has been dropping a 1,000 page package of regulations onto the American health-care market, has now decided that there are too many federal regulations, and, with an eye on job growth, has ordered regulators to study the problem. There is a kind of genius at work in that: The regulators already are regulated under regulations derived from the Regulatory Flexibility Act, which requires that regulators, before regulating, study a proposed regulation's impact on small business. To that regulator-regulating regulation, President Obama has added an additional regulation, stipulating that regulators "reduce regulatory burdens on small business." What obviously is needed here are additional regulators to regulate the enforcement of the regulator regulating regulations, which is to say, regulator-regulating-regulation-regulator-regulators. Who says Obama doesn't know how to create jobs?"
The essence of progressive/liberal public policy is: "...but it will work this time."
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