For the fourth year in a row, I'll be making a road trip to the east coast. This time, however, I'll be going in the opposite direction from my usual pattern: I'll be heading down into Kentucky on the way out before going up to Avalon, New Jersey for a few days at the shore.As usual, it would be great to meet up with some of you along the way. So far I've managed to visit … [Read more...] about Fourth Annual Windypundit Coastal Dash: This Time It’s Backwards
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 reasonable number of stops for a break along the way, it's not exactly grueling.At the … [Read more...] about 2013 Road Trip Report – Part 2: The Zen of Driving
5 Years of the Business Cycle
I've been seeing this chart meme in a few places lately: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 number it has to be fairly recent.Economic recessions are, by definition, deviations from the norm. The … [Read more...] about 5 Years of the Business Cycle
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 measure.That detail … [Read more...] about Selfish Billionaires
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 also claimed to have rescued young women … [Read more...] about How the Real Professional Human Traffickers Do It