Monthly Archives: May 2012
You Couldn’t Pay Me Enough to be a Millionaire
There’s a lot of people in this country with tough jobs. There’s the dog groomer, risking rabies every time he picks up his scissors. There’s the chimney sweep, covered in soot and singing some nonsensical ditty in a Cockney accent. There’s the chicken-sexer, constantly being propositioned by chickens. But I think the worst job of … Continue reading
Plug
I wrote a book. The only way Domenech Fera can save his life is to abduct a child supergenius and find a man who disappeared a decade ago while speaking to the last surviving Artificial Intelligence. What was discussed at that meeting, why were all the other A.I.s destroyed in a plague, and why did … Continue reading
The Laffer Curve vs. Starve the Beast
Llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllet’s get ready to rumbllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllle! Innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn this corner… from Chicago, Illinois… we have… the Aggro Mnemonics of Macroeconomics… the Golden Calf of the Powerpoint Graph… the Nomad Pagan of Ronald Reagan… the Laffer Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurve! And in the other corner… weighing in at small enough to drown in a bathtub… we have… the Hellfire Nemesis of … Continue reading