Sunday, July 6, 2014

Money and Massage at the Mall

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“You can get anything at the mall,” I said to Oren from Deep Sea Cosmetics , as he hugged my wife and me both good-by e.  Oren was p...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

BrainJuice for Austin and the World

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We met this nice young man at our neighborhood Whole Foods last Sunday.  I would rather have a dill pickle than a donut; and this is sweet...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Furloughs for Freedom: Downsizing the Government

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On Milton Friedman's theory of the negative income tax - direct payments with no questions asked would be cheaper than the welfare syst...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Wolf DeVoon

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"Inside each book is a man," said Montag.  That line from Fahrenheit 451 sums all literature, fiction and non-fiction, poetry no ...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Jaime's Salsa of Austin

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About a thousand years ago, when we were living in Las Cruces, I learned that it is easy to make salsa that no one can eat.  The co-worker w...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

The Charm of Circulated Silver

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It never costs too much over spot.  I like to think about the things they bought in their day. The Canadian 50 cent (not half dollar)...
Friday, June 6, 2014

A Culture of Reality, Reason, and Freedom

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Since Karl Marx, government was always taken as a consequence of an oppressive economy.   The arguments of the Age of Reason – Loc...
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Monday, June 2, 2014

Longhorn Fire and Safety

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We needed a new fire extinguisher, so I searched for "Austin fire extinguishers."  Reading the web pages showed that Longhorn Fire...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Alongside Night to run in Austin; Author to Appear

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J. Neil Schulman will be in Austin for the screening of his film, Alongside Night on June 18.  We will meet him for dinner at the...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Liberty's Kids

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I was happy to have found this in a remainder bin in a supermarket.   Originally produced in 2002, Liberty’s Kids: Established 177...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Republicans for Voldemort

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The bumpersticker is amusing, certainly. It does beg investigation into the epistemology of the message.  I accept that on the surface it ...
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

High Brew Cold Brew Coffee

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Austin is a great town for food.  One of the benefits of being members of the Wheatsville Co-op is meeting the local vendors who bring new...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Watson’s Double Helix: Doing Science and Writing About It

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The Double Helix (1968) is James D. Watson’s very personal account of how he and Francis Crick worked out the structure of DNA th...