April 2006

An odd feeling that the French probably have a phrase for.

April 27, 2006

I just read what might possibly be my most favorite-est comment ever on my favorite economics blog, Café Hayek—and it was posted by a guy named “Dom” (you’ll have to scroll down a little to find it): You know what I like? When one and the same person tells us that Big Oil is killing us with high [...]

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A close call.

April 23, 2006

A few weeks ago, my roommate “Kenny” bought a 1991 Ford Escort. The car rides pretty well for its age, but there are several minor problems with the car. One of them is that when he tried to take off the rear license plate, he found that the screwheads were almost completely stripped, and wouldn’t budge. When [...]

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Three new heroes.

April 20, 2006

In the last three days I have gained three new heroes. One of them might have become so purely by mistake, and another one of them will not seem remotely noble to most people. The third one is the easiest one: Dr. Wang Wenyi. Dr. Wang practices Falun Gong, which caused her to be denied entry into China for her [...]

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Futsal Premiership.

April 18, 2006

I am saddened to announce that I can no longer serve as a productive member of society. Update: Berlusconi has lost, and Barça defeated Milan 1-0 at San Siro in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal. Moral? Don’t mess with the Pope.

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Quanti scudetti ha il papa?

April 11, 2006

It looks like Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is about to lose his job. His coalition lost this week’s elections by a metric smidgen, though there may be a recount. The pundits will analyze and theorize and conjecturize in their vain attempts to understand why the Italian Republic’s longest-lasting governing coalition has finally fallen. Some might say it was because of his [...]

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Update on resolutions.

April 7, 2006

This just in: I passed Illinois’s’s Assessment for Professional Teaching with a 92% score, and the Social Studies/Economics content area exam with a 96%. Considering that I fell asleep during the APT and that roughly 45% of the questions on the “Economics” exam were about psychology, sociology, and world history, I am greatly relieved. Yea for me. This [...]

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Technology makes life easier.

April 6, 2006

This afternoon, I had some spare time to work on my website. After spending the last few hours tinkering with code, uploading files, creating folders, editing pictures, coding, decoding,HTMLing, CSSing and who-knows-what-else-ing, the end result is what you see now: a darker headplate with gold text. Whoop-dee do. I haven’t typed or changed a line of HTML since I was [...]

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Borders.

April 3, 2006

I watched the Cubs’ opener today… 16-7 over Cincinnati. On pace for 162-0. I have decided that the new “Best Name in All of Sports” belongs to Angel Pagan, the Cubbies’ new outfielder. “Angel Pagan.” He could be a Bond villain. … We need to build a wall to keep those goofy foreigners, who have strange customs and [...]

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