This Makes No Sense September 24th, 2008 @ 11:06 am PDT
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Los Angeles Utilities August 16th, 2008 @ 10:01 am PDT
Just for the hell of it, I’m posting my latest LA DWP bill, which covers June 10th to August 8th. How much are you paying?
Turning Virtual Gold into Real Cash June 20th, 2007 @ 6:19 am PDT
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer (link via kottke)
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America March 25th, 2007 @ 8:00 pm PDT
Late Friday night I finished reading Barbara Ehrenreich‘s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. This one’s been in my personal queue for several years; I sort of randomly found it on the shelf while looking for something to read on the plane to New York last week. It’s a psuedo-scientific exploration of […]
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser August 7th, 2004 @ 1:17 am PDT
I am apparently in a reading frenzy these days. I just knocked off Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser. The book is not all about marijuana, although it would certainly be compelling enough if it was only concerned with that one topic. Instead it’s three essays […]
Eat the Rich May 23rd, 2002 @ 11:57 am PDT
P. J. O’Rourke is one of my favorite authors and his treatise on economics did not disappoint me. The book is comprised of eleven satire-filled chapters covering the study of economics and the impacts of economic theories on several nations. O’Rourke deftly explains how communism has created a catastrophe in Cuba and how socialism has somehow […]
Interesting Books March 9th, 2002 @ 12:01 pm PST
Reading and reading and reading
P.J. O’Rourke March 1st, 2002 @ 10:22 am PST
How to think about the economy
Game Theory November 21st, 2001 @ 10:44 pm PST
On buying tickets
BoA September 17th, 2001 @ 7:58 am PDT
Some notes on the economy