Year: 2014
TRAVEL DEPT.
2013 Road Trip Report – Part 2: The Zen of Driving
Time for Part 2 of my rambling road trip report from last summer. Part 1 ended with me going to sleep outside Toledo. The next morning I woke up and hit the road: Interstate 80 eastbound. This was to be my longest drive of the trip, just over 450 miles to Scranton, Pennsylvania. With a… Read more
ECONOMICS DEPT.
5 Years of the Business Cycle
I’ve been seeing this chart meme in a few places lately: Obama Economy Meme The URL at the bottom indicates it’s from the folks at “I love it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is President.” I’m assuming the numbers are accurate. There’s no date on it, but with that Dow… Read more
UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT DEPT.
Selfish Billionaires
Divid Sirota at In These Times has a mind-boggling complaint about rich people: […] Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced a $120 million donation to San Francisco-area schools. That donation came only a few years after California considered a ballot measure to increase funding for its schools. Zuckerberg was notably absent from the campaign to pass the… Read more
SEX WORK DEPT.
How the Real Professional Human Traffickers Do It
A couple of weeks ago Somaly Mam resigned from the anti-human-trafficking foundation that used to bear her name. (Apparently, it’s changing its branding from the Somaly Mam Foundation to just SMF.) It turns out she had been lying about important parts of her life story, including the part about being sold into forced prostitution. She… Read more
BLOGOSPHERE DEPT.
The Wit and Wisdom of Allison Williams, Esq.
I’ve recently discovered a new member of the legal blogosphere, and I’d like to tell you a bit about how I found her. Although actually, she found me. I like getting comments on my blog. Years ago, I used to get a lot of comments. However, my blog traffic crashed a few years back when… Read more