Current Affairs

Crime Down? When unemployment goes up, crime goes up, right? That's the common understanding. But it's not happening this time around. “As the national unemployment rate doubled from around 5 percent to nearly 10 percent, the property-crime rate, far from spiking, fell significantly. For 2009, the

Barbarians at the Gate Alan Greenspan returns to his libertarian roots more and more each day. The stunner quote: "We have at this particular stage a fiat money which is essentially money printed by a government and it's usually a central bank which is authorized to do

Greenspan and Other Problems Is this guy for real? Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. could face a bond-market crisis if politicians don't act soon to start cutting the nation's debt [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704739504576067832461529192.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1&

Monday Miscellany Ah, that explains all the Judy Garland CD advertisements I've been seeing: " Facebook might be inadvertently outing its gay users to advertisers, according to a new study [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322916/Facebook-accidentally-outing-gay-users-advertisers.html#ixzz13B6XwRtM] ." Problem is, the very next sentence says

Monday Miscellany That's why I blog: Couples married for an average of 40 years know less about one another's food, movie and kitchen-design preferences than do partners who have been married or in committed relationships for a year or two, a new study finds. . . . Older couples&

Happy Prose Okay, so I'm supposed to have a smile on my prose. That was a tall self-imposed order. Fortunately, the pessimistic Lew Rockwell bailed me out. He penned a large piece that he posted yesterday: The Killing and Reviving of the American Dream [http://www.lewrockwell.com/

Porn "Pornography wants you, it wants your husband or wife, it wants your son and daughter, your grandchildren, and your in-laws. It doesn't share well, and it doesn't leave easily. It is a cruel master, and seeks more slaves." From this fine Salvo essay