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Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs

Before we look at the details, a heartfelt plea from the Save the CEO’s Charitable Trust:There’s so much suffering in the world. It can all get pretty overwhelming sometimes. Consider,…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1543 words)

Machete Order

Brace yourselves, what follows is an amazingly long blog post about Star Wars. I’ve already discussed how I’m not a huge fan of the various modifications made to the original Star Wars…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4131 words)

The Great Debate

Steve Jobs smelled so foul that none of his co-workers at Atari in the seventies would work with him. Entreating him to shower was usually futile; he’d inevitably claim that his strict vegan…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3708 words)

The Book of Jobs

It has now been almost five years since the bursting of the housing bubble, and four years since the onset of the recession. There are 6.6 million fewer jobs in the United States than there were…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (370 words)

The Other Road Ahead

September 2001 (This article explains why much of the next generation of software may be server-based, what that will mean for programmers, and why this new kind of software is a great opportunity…
LENGTH: 47 minutes (11807 words)

The Immortal Horizon

Discussed: An Escaped Assassin, Raw Chicken Meat, Unimaginable Physical Exhaustion, A License Plate from Liberia, Duct-Tape Pants, Novels Hidden in Tree Trunks, Testosterone Spread Like Fertilizer,…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6776 words)
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