- Why you should always pay your website designer.
- George W. Bush cancels speaking engagement in Switzerland. If he’d gone he might have been arrested for war crimes.
- Speaking of which, I was poking around Wikipedia the other day and learned that the top U.S. representative at the Bretton Woods Conference (and with John Maynard Keynes one of the two most influential figures in the monetary agreement forged there) was a Soviet agent. Sheesh. I really do try not to fall into conspiracy theories. But that’s just strange. A lot of what this man did is just strange.
- Very smart, Mubarak. Treat reporters to the sights, sounds, and experiences of your barbaric “detention” systems. (NY Times free subscription link.)
- On Egypt: I’ve been trying to compose an intelligent post, somewhere between the freedomista cheerleading for the protestors and the mainstream fear that a vulnerable and confused Egypt will be taken over by militant Islamists. Seems Brendan O’Neill has done it for me.
- Mish Shedlock does a pretty good job of speaking my mind, too, when he asks, “Are Teachers Special?” (And answers his own question quite forcefully, of course.) Don’t you just cringe every time you hear any group defined as “special” — and therefore beyond the standards of accountability that apply to the rest of us? What’s really depressing is the way millions appear to buy into this “special” line when their own experiences with teachers, cops, etc. should Give Them A Clue.
- “When Irish Eyes Are Crying” … over their incredibly foolish banking crisis. Good portrait of a country enduring the aftermath of too-good-to-be-true.
- Do you like unsolved mysteries? Here’s a good and creepy one for you. (Yes, I had time on my hands this weekend when my hands weren’t busy shoveling horse poop. Found this by following a link about uncracked codes from LewRockwell.com … then just roaming. The uncracked code may actually be the least interesting part of this odd case.)
Did you notice the connection between your “soviet agent” link and the “unsolved mystery” link? Hmmm. Are you giving us a mystery to solve, too?
Ref: “Are Teachers “Special”? Please. Of Course Teachers Should Have Their Pensions Cut.”
Legislative elimination of all forced ‘contribution’ deferred benefit plans provided by employers would eliminate the debate.
Employers should only provide compensation for services (labor) performed.
If an individual wishes to “invest” or “put away” money for retirement, the choice should remain with the individual.
Mike
This is off-subject, but this summer, a movie called “Cowboys and Aliens” set to be released. The movie is based on a comic book,but,as I recall, there was a Farside cartoon by that title..
More on topic-when I was in high school, being called “special” was sort of like saying “you ride the short bus”-not a good thing..
Worth reading on Egypt:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MB02Ak01.html
I was astonished to learn that Egypt can’t feed itself, given that it was the abundance of Egyptian wheat which led Rome to annex that ancient land, so they wouldn’t have to pay for the “bread” used to mollify the urban Roman masses.
“George W. Bush cancels speaking engagement in Switzerland. If he’d gone he might have been arrested for war crimes.”
You don’t suppose they’d do the same for the Current Occupant, do you? Oh, wait, I forgot, he’s a Nobel Peace Laureate.
Of course teachers are special…in the “Special eduction” sense. Your typical educator is just not as smart as others who majored in the same area of expertise, but without the ed courses.