democracy

oh well

Sometimes signals are misread.

Particularly when the method of communication is one dimensional (only voice, only print, only e-mail, etc.)

I am listening to Pachabel's Canon, which is truly amazing with my speakers. I had forgotten how good music can be. I have to listen more. And I'm playing the CD off some cheap DVD player I picked up at Best Buy.


From time to time, it's a good thing to help those who are down on their luck. I had two professors my sophomore...
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...be he ne'er so vile
This day shall not gentle his condition.



Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the...
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..... let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings



For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow...
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My response:

Here is the measure of the coefficient of income inequality, which has been steadily rising, showing the widening spread between upper and upper middle class earners and lower middle and middle class earners:

US income Gini coefficients over time
Gini coefficients for the United States at various times, according to the US Census Bureau:
1967: 0.397 (first year reported)
1968: 0.386 (lowest coefficient...
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Is Barack inevitable?

Seattle, Oz, Chicago, South Carolina, Jerusalem.

I am wondering what will happen on Super Tuesday. Every democrat I talk to wants Obama, save one. And the margin in South Carolina seemed surprising. That makes some sense to me - though it's hard for charisma to beat organization. So it could still be Obama. I think he needs to win California because he can't afford (metaphorically)...
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In Seattle last weekend, talking about traveling to Oz, this weekend a law school classmate was in town from Jerusalem. Four of us got together, and lunch at 1 p.m. turned into a five hour discussion of public policy, the democratic primaries, the reason for bank illiquidity, and Japan (one of us after law school spent six years teaching English there as a way of...
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Back from Seattle. I'd love to go to Oz, and we talked about it while I was there.

Direct flights to Sydney from Chicago.....Though it must be 18 hours. Eek....don't know if I could handle that.