Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Radio guy just went off on this. I missed the part where he explained whether he came up with this on the spot, or read it somewhere…and the GooglGodz are frowning with disdain on my attempts to nail down any source. But I can’t let this go.
There are four ways to spend money.
With your own money, for yourself.
You will be extremely careful about what it is you are buying, what it is the thing is going to do for you, for how long, and most of all — you will pinch pennies like there’s no tomorrow.
With your own money, for someone else.
You will spend money with just as much caution as in the above example but you won’t pay too much attention to what it is you are buying because you don’t really care.
With someone else’s money, for yourself.
You will spend lavishly as you pay attention only to what it is you are acquiring. You will be somewhat concerned about “bang for the buck” but not overly much.
With someone else’s money, for someone else.
You will spend with reckless abandon, caring not one whit about how much you burned up or what you got with it.
Government taxing-and-spending falls mostly into the fourth of those. What doesn’t fall into the fourth of those falls into the third. And perhaps there’s way too much falling into the third thing and not enough falling into the fourth, but that’s a different discussion.
Point is, if this is coming to you as a paradigm shift, there’s lots and lots of good stuff on the teevee on election day and you should really spend your time watching that instead of voting.
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re: With your own money, for someone else.
And there’s NO better way to do that than to donate to Project Valour-IT. Don’t know what Valour-IT is? Click the link. And then drop a few bucks in the kitty to help a wounded warrior recover his independence.
I apologize for the commercial, Morgan.
- bpenni | 10/31/2009 @ 09:43Um..duh.
- CaptDMO | 10/31/2009 @ 10:01“Cash” can be loosely defined as “monetized assets”, right?
CAUTION: Wikipedia
See: Johari/Nohari window
IF you have too much time on your hands.
re:” Um…duh.”
- CaptDMO | 10/31/2009 @ 10:05Sorry,
I DO realize these things must be repeatedly referenced to retain their poignancy..
A somewhat serious comment: as a federal employee, having worked on contracts worth several million dollars, I can report that, when spending someone else’s money for someone else at someone else’s request, our government spends hundreds of thousands more in an effort to keep the process ethically clean. We try to design the process to both get a good bang for the buck, and to keep officials from spending unethically but guess which outcome worries us more. There’s LOTS of overhead involved in keeping public employees out of jail. Just another aspect of public spending that makes it so ineffective and inefficient.
- kdaunt | 10/31/2009 @ 10:26The source is Milton and Rose Friedman from their book Free to Choose. I’ve not read that book, but P. J. O’Rourke quotes them in Eat The Rich, which is a much easier (and funnier) to read than any other Friedman books I’ve read.
- CaptainMidnight | 10/31/2009 @ 16:55Check it out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un4-eI1T71E
or, for a much less erudite rendition….
http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/08/healthcare-reform-economics-made-simple.html
- BroKen | 11/06/2009 @ 22:35