Archive for May, 2008

Prices are rising - blame freedom

Friday, May 30th, 2008

“The CFTC has been under pressure from U.S. lawmakers to crack down on speculators they blame for pushing energy prices to record levels.”
Thank you lawmakers.
If the energy prices have been pushed unreasonably high by speculation, thank God! That means they will drop back to appropriate levels given some time. If the prices are […]

CFR’s Benn Steil testifies by pricing other commodities in gold

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Someone pointed me to cnn money the other day but I found Benn Steil’s testimony more interesting. And now today I found another article by Steil from last year. While I don’t agree with him on everything, he appears to have a handle on history and the current situation. Plus he […]

Milk and freedom to drink it

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I found an interesting piece on raw (unpasteurized) milk a few weeks back.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/04/0081992

Facelift anyone?

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

I think it’s high time I didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Now there are gobs of pretty packages that are valid html and so forth, so why should I build my site from scratch? We’ll try WordPress and see how it goes.