Trantor Journal

If a science of history were achieved, it would, like the science of celestial mechanics, make possible the calculable prediction of the future in history.

20 December 2009

Oh, Copenhagen . . .

Yes, China has not acquitted itself well . . . but at times like these , the historian in me speculates what might have been had Bush not ...

19 December 2009

Tony finally just says it . . .

. . . next stop: The Hague . In my dreams.

Christmas comes early for the insurance companies

Soooo . . . no public option, and no medicare buy-in. Funny how a little competition from the supposedly bloated, inefficient government bec...

22 November 2009

I think Martin's got it right . . .

. . . Goldmans should fork over a pile of cash now. A big pile . It would be a mistake to impose punative tax on bonuses over a long perio...

19 September 2009

I'm lovin' the 'baggers . . .

. . . so entertaining .

06 September 2009

Belated post . . .

. . . linking to a great article written by a Brit trying to explain what the hell is going on with the Right in America.

05 September 2009

Respect your children . . .

. . . but that may be too much to ask in Texas .

Paul explains . . .

. . . how they got it so, so wrong .

29 August 2009

I guess I really don't like being lectured to by rich kids about the genius of the free market

Here in what the locals like to call “Little Britain”, a nasty spat among the media elite has messily intruded on the public consciousness. ...

This guy . . .

. . . is such a tool . You gotta wonder if this person's brain is capable of grasping the enormity of the irony bound up in the concept...

26 August 2009

I'm lovin' Glen Beck . . .

. . . he's just the best .

17 August 2009

Sometimes . . .

. . . I really don't miss living in that country . . . and, for the record, the NHS in the UK is far from perfect, but less not-perfect...

02 August 2009

Been travellin' . . .

. . . and I admit to succumbing to temptation. Lo, to my shame I have bought The Economist. Twice. And I enjoyed it. On economics, I...

08 June 2009

I'd like to say he's thinking what I'm thinking . . .

. . . but, as usual, he's ahead of me . Living in the UK as a dual national, the irony of the Labour Party's unfortunate predicament...

07 June 2009

Clash of the Titans?

Krugman versus Ferguson : the Battle Royale. My money is with the Nobel laureate, not just because he's more qualified as a proper eco...

31 May 2009

Economists have sucked lately

. . . a plausible explanation . . .

19 May 2009

What Matt says . . .

. . . so simple, so true : You know, Newt Gingrich knows a lot about saying stupid things and being forced out of the job as Speaker. … But ...

18 May 2009

Getting silly now

I really wish Dick and daughter would just let us put this whole torture thing behind us . . . Really gotta wonder what they are on about ...

17 May 2009

And he, too, shall be judged . . .

. . . not sure why the rats are scurrying now - the ship sank a long time ago.

18 April 2009

Teabagging Michelle Malkin

Love this post - good on substance, too . . . Here's a choice excerpt at the end - really puts the empty rhetoric and paint-by-numbers ...

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Raven: I was born in the 10th month of the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era (GE) (-79 Foundation Era (FE)). My prediction of the eventual fall of the Galactic Empire has earned me nickname "Raven" Seldon: I guess it stuck. For reasons too tedious to explain, I have made very few in-the-flesh appearances to my interlocutors: just read the book. I prefer to appear in pre-recorded holographic messages when it is time to reveal a Seldon Crisis. However, since the invention of the internet, thanks to Al Gore, I have chosen to reveal my observations (and perhaps a few predictions) on this website.

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