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Author Archives: Max West
Government Is Your Friend
From Obama’s commencement address at Ohio State University on May 5, 2013: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some … Continue reading
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Nancy Pelosi Drive
Last summer, driving through S.F.’s Golden Gate Park, I noticed one of the street names was Nancy Pelosi Drive and then promptly regurgitated some of my lunch. (Sometime last year, the city renamed Middle East Drive to Nancy Pelosi Drive.) … Continue reading
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Kierkegaard at 200
Upon the great philosopher’s 200th birthday, Julian Baggini has a very good synopsis of Kierkegaard, a philosopher whose work I think was way ahead of its time. Kierkegaard got to the root of the existentialist dilemma arguably before anyone else. … Continue reading
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Schumpeter on Keynes
“He was childless and his philosophy of life was essentially a short-run philosophy.” — from Joseph Schumpeter’s obituary of John Maynard Keynes, in the American Economic Review, September 1946. More on the Ferguson kerfuffle from the left and the right.
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8 Charged In $45 million Fraud Scheme
Time to Celebrate Diversity! NEW YORK (WABC) — Eight members of a New York cell are charged in a massive 21st century bank heist that reached across the Internet and stretched around the globe, inflicting $45 million in losses on … Continue reading
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Macbeth
The excellent Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman will be in a new screen adaption of Macbeth. In the past few years, I’ve been exploring Shakespeare’s oevre, and starting to study it more closely. To date, in film or on stage, … Continue reading
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Art as a Sense of Place
Sailer has a piece on the futuristic architecture of John Lautner, whose work captured the “the shiny, optimistic, future-infatuated Southern California that peaked in the early 1960s.” As with Tiki culture, I absolutely love the imagined future represented by 1960s-era, … Continue reading
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Flag Wavers
Well, it looks like the Cleveland Kidnapping involved not one, but three charming fellas from the wonderful island of Puerto Rico: From a NYT story on the case is the following picture of the house where the three women were … Continue reading
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Ender’s Game
There’s a trailer for “Ender’s Game“, the big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s classic sci-fi novel. Asa Butterfield (the kid from “Hugo”, who I think is a good actor) plays Ender. The film also stars Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, … Continue reading
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Jeff Hanneman (1964-2013)
Jeff Hanneman, key songwriter and guitarist of Slayer, has died at the age of 49. While both Hanneman and 2nd guitarist Kerry King wrote songs for the band, Hanneman’s music was the better of the two (e.g., “Angel of Death”, … Continue reading
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