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Month: March 2012

Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 64

March 31, 2012Burt Likko

[One] way for kleptocrats to gain public support is to construct an ideology or religion justifying kleptocracy. Bands and tribes already had supernatural beliefs, just as do modern established religions. Bu tthe supernatural beliefs of bands and tribes did not… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Jared Diamond

Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 63

March 30, 2012Burt Likko 6 Comments

For certain is death for the born. And certain is birth for the dead. Therefore over the inevitable thou shouldst not grieve. — The Bhagavad-Gita

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Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 62

March 29, 2012Burt Likko

Roman tolerance to local cults and even their readiness to join them was one important way in which the empire was cemented. — Charles Freeman

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Electronics

March 29, 2012Burt Likko 46 Comments

My last business trip was among my most absent-minded ever. I forgot a clean shirt going up. I forgot my copies of the deposition exhibits in my haste to get to the airport for an earlier flight home. And, worst… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Kindle Fire, TV

Broadband in Ruralia

March 28, 2012Will Truman 18 Comments

According to Thomas Freedman, we shouldn’t be worried about broadband capabilities in rural America: Right now, though, notes Levin, America is focused too much on getting “average” bandwidth to the last 5 percent of the country in rural areas, rather… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Erik Loomis, Silicon Valley, South Korea, United States

Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 61

March 28, 2012Burt Likko 3 Comments

To the extent that economic thinking is based on the market, it takes the sacredness out of life, because there can be nothing sacred in something that has a price. Not surprisingly, therefore, if economic thinking pervades the whole of… Continue Reading →

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Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 60

March 27, 2012Burt Likko

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates

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Thoughts From Travelworld

March 27, 2012Burt Likko

It’s odd, really, how much travel I’ve been doing recently. I went nearly a year without any business travel and now it seems like every other day I’m away from home, in a hotel or on an airplane. As I… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Los Angeles Extragalactic, Mitt Romney, United States

Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 59

March 26, 2012Burt Likko 1 Comment

Ere to sleep, thou liest down, prepare to guard thy life — a man is friendless at the hour of trial. — Ahmenhemet I

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Monday Trivia #52

March 26, 2012Will Truman 31 Comments

Another state ranking, though this time with territories: Alaska, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Ohio, Utah, Florida, Tennessee, Indiana, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Illinois, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Michigan, Idaho, South Carolina, Mississippi, California, Maryland, New York, Montana, Arkansas,… Continue Reading →

Trivia New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina

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