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I can't imagine this is much of a problem. It's not as though even the severely mentally ill are being put into institutions where they belong.

Well that could be OK or:



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America, turn in your pressure cooking pots!

For general use I recommend changing "balls" to "gonads" that way it works for just about everyone.

The government will just wait you out in this ismy guess.

--How will you practice? They won't come to your house, they'll just wait for some opportune time, such as when you're out in the woods...

Some author I read a long time ago said that there used to be two kinds of death: red death and black death. Red death would be where a person dies in bloody gore, painful disease, conscious likely....

It's creepy.

Several years ago in WA the state legislature passed a law requiring life jackets. Common sense, but of course the legislature had to codify common sense.

So, what happened? The...

Should have written a note for her 3rd grade kid to translate (most newly immigrant Asians' children are their translators and do a damned good job of it). Eldest daughter up the street came over...

Send them to a place like HomeMovieDepot.com. If they're all the same size it would probably be worthwhile to get a photo scanner that you can stack a pile of cards onto.

I see one lot of 156...

I'd have left off the BS thing about domestic violence. There are "must arrest" statutes for domestic violence even when it's low-grade marital fights. If divorce is "no fault" then fights should be...

This. I have a chunk of off grid rural remote land. Unless you live there year round you are a stranger, not part of the "community". Calling it a community is a stretch. I wouldn't say these...

Well that does it! Next time I'm selected for jury on a gallbladder removal malpractice case I'm voting for the plaintiff.

Not.

He did leave his heart in SF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkl3XlEneA

Fischer offers his theory of "autogenous change". Economics is, or should be, the result of autonomous organization of free individuals. So it should be expected that an historical theory should...

Price Equilibria Commonalities

•Fuel/Food price relatives decrease
•Manufactured goods prices improve
•Real wages increase
•Interest and rents decrease •Social and political systems more stable...

This .pdf http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09asastr.pdf has a chart near the end. It shows that the "progressive" income tax does very little to change the Gini. I don't believe any tax redistribution...

Some of the charts for the other price revolutions and equilibria.

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A Malthusian view.

I really loved this one, a Tiananmen square protester who emigrated to the US:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05AHr89rnTA

Here is some detail on the first wave, the Medieval Price Revolution:

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I have some detailed charts for the other price revolution phases but my summary notes aren't complete yet.

There...

We need to go back in history a bit farther.

Here's a nice graph from Fischer:

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Amazingly there is sufficient historical data to prepare a graph of prices going back 800 years. What...

Some politicians imply they are "doing something" about inequality.

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But the chart above clearly shows that regardless of which party has been in power, the inequality trendline is still...

The US began tracking Gini values systematically in 1947.

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Others have gone back further in time, here is data for wealth going back to 1850:

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Or even futher back:

I've been putting together some information from "The Great Wave" a book by David Hackett Fischer who some of you know from his book "Paul Revere's Ride".

We hear politicians talk about economic...