A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.--deTocqueville
Lower-ranking male wolves do not mate and often suffer from a condition of stress and inhibition that has been referred to as “psychological castration.” Lower-ranking females are sometimes so afraid of the alpha female that they do not even go into heat.
April 2015 had the highest level of U.S. corporate stock buybacks ever.
Vermont has some of the loosest gun laws in America. The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence gives it an “F.” The state requires no background checks for private gun sales, permits the sale and possession of “assault weapons,” and allows concealed guns to be carried in public without a license. It has the third lowest homicide rate in the country.
Though he had seemingly unlimited revenue in the form of gold and silver from the New World, Phillip II of Spain (1527-1598) squandered it all, and more, on war and became the first sovereign in history to declare bankruptcy. Spain lost the Netherlands as a result. The crucial innovation of the Genoese bankers was to create' a secondary market in Spanish sovereign debt by selling shares in the juros they held to a range of investors, but especially to Spanish ecclesiastical foundations, to the growing middle class, such as lawyers and doctors, and to some noble families. They spread the risk associated with a range of juros across a large number of investors, establishing a sort of primitive collateralized debt obligation. The ingenuity of the Genoese in expanding the market for Spanish sovereign debt allowed Philip II to keep his armies in the field and prosecute his wars against the French, the Dutch and the Turks. But the cost of his military operations far exceeded what he could afford and when he stopped paying his interest, the bankers stopped funding his war efforts.
Theodor Seuss Geisel turned to children's books in his late twenties, when his job creating ads for "Flit" insect repellent -- his "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" became a household slogan across America -- left him well-off and bored. So he became Dr. Seuss.
According to the WashPo, while she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote and sent at least six e-mails using her private server that contained what government officials now say is classified information. It is important to remember that classification of information does not have to be documented, it is assumed. If she was e-mailing from a server that did not have ".gov," didn't everyone know that? And doesn't the administration have some responsibility there?
Who is....Mitoji Yabunaka?
Who is....Mitoji Yabunaka?
The pope’s assault on the global economy suggests he believes the whole idea fundamentally disordered, leading to a world where competition is exalted over cooperation and people grow rich by exploiting the poor. But even the most cursory look at the world confirms the opposite: The more fetters imposed on competitive markets, the harder life gets for those stuck at the bottom.
In fact, the poor fare much better in places such as Hong Kong, Taiwan or Korea, where markets and competition are relatively open, than they do in Latin America or Africa, where competition is far more limited. To put it another way, it isn’t global competition that makes nations poor but their isolation from it.
A scholar specializing in the study of Latin America said that the official poverty level in the United States is the upper middle class in Mexico. The much criticized market economy of the United States has done far more for the poor than the ideology of the left.
In fact, the poor fare much better in places such as Hong Kong, Taiwan or Korea, where markets and competition are relatively open, than they do in Latin America or Africa, where competition is far more limited. To put it another way, it isn’t global competition that makes nations poor but their isolation from it.
A scholar specializing in the study of Latin America said that the official poverty level in the United States is the upper middle class in Mexico. The much criticized market economy of the United States has done far more for the poor than the ideology of the left.
Touchstone: n:1: a black siliceous stone related to flint and formerly used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak left on the stone when rubbed by the metal 2: a test or criterion for determining the quality or genuineness of a thing
3: a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis touchstone
This Ashley Madison thing is more interesting than it appears. Breaking into a secure website to expose would-be adulterers sounds prankish and maybe prudish and many, I think, secretly enjoy the justice of it. But it really is the rise of self-righteous censors, people who are willing to make a decision about your behavior and destroy your life over it if they do not approve. Freedom does require a certain amount of privacy; Mr. Snowden, meet Cotton Mather.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk-mile-in-charlie-mansons-shoes.html
I am not sure how much of a science economics is but, in this quote, one gets a feel that it at least is trying to imitate modern science: The principle of spontaneous order – or of “undesigned order,” as it might more properly be called – can be viewed as the first principle of economics. Indeed, James Buchanan has recently gone so far as to suggest that it is the only principle of economics. The principle is, in any case, a cornerstone of modern economics, whether we trace modern (i.e., post-mercantilist) economics back to Adam Smith and the other Scottish moral philosophers, or to the Physiocrats. With this principle, scholars for the first time could see economic phenomena as interdependent events. (Gerry O’Driscoll)
Cheney's new book about America's international standing and its belief in itself highlights a secret cable dated Sept. 3, 2009, released by WikiLeaks regarding the attempt by Obama to apologize to the Japanese over the atomic attack on Japan. Sent to Secretary of State Clinton, it reported Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka telling U.S. Ambassador John Roos that "the idea of President Obama visiting Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bombing during World War II is a 'nonstarter.'" The Japanese feared the apology would be exploited by anti-nuclear groups and those opposed to the defensive alliance between Japan and the U.S..
The entire brain weighs three pounds (1.4 kg) and so is only a small percentage of an adult's total body weight, typically 2%. But it consumes 20% of all the energy the body uses.
Where was Snowden? In his book, Glenn Greenwald wrote that Snowden "arrived in Hong Kong from Hawaii on May 20, checking into the Mira Hotel under his own name." Edward Jay Epstein of The Wall Street Journal, however, went to Hong Kong and reported that Snowden didn't check into the Mira Hotel until June 1. Epstein also cited a source familiar with the Defense Intelligence Agency report on the Snowden affair, writing that "US investigative agencies have been unable to find any credit-card charges or hotel records indicating his whereabouts" between May 20 and June 1.
'We limit the number of Jews admitted to each class to roughly the proportion of Jews in the population of the state,' said the dean of Cornell's medical college as late as 1940, citing a policy that was dignified with the name numerus clausus. At the Yale School of Medicine, applications by Jewish students were marked with an H, for 'Hebrew,' while Harvard requested passport-size photos to help identify Semitic facial features. Using questions about religious affiliation and giving priority to the sons of alumni (the so-called legacy preference), the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons was able to reduce its proportion of Jewish students from 47 percent in 1920 to some 6 percent twenty years later -- to the delight of alumni who deplored Jewish students as 'damned curve-raisers' for working too hard and decreasing the value of the leisurely 'gentleman's C.'
On November 8, 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated and the Armistice went into effect three days later. In Germany, what immediately followed was fighting, atrocities, political chaos and national despair -- a period known as the "terror." The socialist and communist movements quickly coalesced in November 1918, but by May 1919 they had been snuffed out and the Weimer Republic, which lasted 14 years, emerged as the new government of Germany.
Inserting human glial stem cells into the brains of newborn mice enables them to learn faster. Electromagnets placed on the skulls of monkeys enhances their cognitive performance. These kinds of changes are seen as potentially therapeutic for humans but one could argue the therapy could go the other way. What is to prevent a scientist from enhancing a chimp, for example, and thus create an artificial new class of individuals?
When Genghis Khan and the Mongols defeated the Tatars in the thirteenth century, they captured almost the entire army and all the civilians. The Khan wanted to absorb the enemies he conquered so he determining to kill Tatar males taller than the linchpin holding the wheels on a cart, which was not only a measure of adulthood but a symbolic designation of the nation itself, in much the same way that maritime people often use the ship as a symbol of their state. Once again, as a counter to the killing, Temujin wanted the surviving Tatars taken in as full members of his tribe, not as slaves. So the orphan children were adopted into Mongol tribes.
AAAAAAAaaaaaaaannnnndddddd.....a graph, a Google Ngram of Chronic Fatigue and Autism:
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