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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Mullahs and the Rock Star
Assorted on Salman Ahmed;
"In high school, I prayed to Allah for Yankees to win"
Junoon Official Website (biggest rock band in South Asia, sold over 25 million albums, the first rock band to be invited to perform at the U.N. General Assembly.)
What is Timothy Jay Smith reading?
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Featured at Writers Read: Timothy Jay Smith, author of Istanbul Crossing.
His entry begins: The best way to hide a secret is to keep it from
yourself, or s...
Whiplash: A Consequence of Most Car Accidents
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Our every day life is fueled with car accidents, because according to
statistics, there are approximately 6 million accidents which involve cars
every year...
Trump’s dictatorship is a fait accompli
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A few weeks ago, I drew up a flowchart to estimate the probability that
Trump would establish a dictatorship in the US, which looked, at the time,
like an ...
Trump’s dictatorship is a fait accompli
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What can Americans do? What should Australia do? A few weeks ago, I drew up
a flowchart to estimate the probability that Trump would establish a
dictatorsh...
Spatial economics JMPs (2024-2025)
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Here’s a list of job-market candidates whose job-market papers fall within
spatial economics, as defined by me quickly skimming webpages and 24
candidates ...
How to implement a knowledge management system
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Let’s say a team member wants to replicate a report, host a recurring
meeting for the first time, or upload a new piece of software to their
machine. Do ...
African Extractive Industries: PRC Neocolonialism
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That the slow development of the African continent can be traced to Western
colonialism is an archetype of this field of study: Mainly interested in
extr...
Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives
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Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet
its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and
joined the...
Some Links
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(Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist
Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the
truth abou...
Chromostereopsis
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The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this.
Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. For
me thoug...
Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living?
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Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website,
although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who
use RSS sho...
A new shop for parents who've done better
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It has been a while. Actually, I am not sure anyone reads this blog anymore
and even if they did how they might find out about a new post.
Anyhow, your eco...
The WSJ Law Blog: 2006-2017
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More than a decade ago, The Wall Street Journal launched Law Blog. It had a
simple name but a novel approach to legal coverage in the pre-Twitter era.
The ...
herbal untuk jantung dan darah tinggi yang ampuh
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Apakah Anda tahu bahwa madu mampu memberikan M segala macam manfaat bagi kesehatan
manusia? Madu diakui mengingat bahwa zaman kuno sebagai obat, dan penggun...
Why model?
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The first question that arises frequently--sometimes innocently and
sometimes not--is simply, "Why model?" Imagining a rhetorical
(non-innocent) inquisi...
Good Text Book on Public Policy
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Section I: What Is Public Policy? Chapter 1: Public Decision Making
Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Make the World a Better Place?
Section ...
The end …
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This is the end of our broadcast day here at Murketing.com. Thanks for
having tuned in! Please head over to RobWalker.net for more on whatever I’m
up to no...
this site is moving
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After more than eight years at this address and more than more than seven
years blogging with the same old version of MovableType software, I am
shifting o...
An Announcement
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Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Friends -- You imagine it can't happen to
you, and then it does. Here's why 2Blowhards disappeared: Our webhost,
who'd given ...
Armenian genetics
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Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic
history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very*
garb...
New site
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I have a new site at *WordPress*:
http://www.harryrclarke.com/
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It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a whil...
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