29 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Shocka: Greg Mankiw looks at the findings of a large-scale study that found that, in his words, “One reason that people differ in their incomes is that some people care more about having a high income than others.”

  3. (BTW, anyone who has epilepsy should complain that the insanely annoying flashing Vistaprint ad on the right hand side of the Daily Mail page at the link triggered a seizure and sue for millions.)

  4. Yeah, Black Mamba (10:08), the optics aren’t good. You’d figure he’d at least hang out on the shore looking concerned.
    RT: Real Science’s Steven Goddard quotes a passage from the May 6, 1940 edition of Brisbane, Australia newspaper The Courier-Mail:
    “By far the largest number of local glaciers in north-east Greenland had receded very greatly during recent decades, and it would not be exaggerating to say that these glaciers were nearing a catastrophe.”
    Goddard:

    “James Hansen has recently determined that the temperature measurements from Greenland in 1940 were ‘suspiciously’ too high, and has whacked a couple of degrees of of them.
    “Hansen’s magic computer has retroactively un-melted the glaciers. People back then were too dumb to know what melting ice looks like anyway.”

  6. “A funny thing happened on the way to Novosibirsk.”
    Святая корова! Вот так, что был близок.
    Что это за запах?
    Translation: Holy cow! Whew, that was close.
    What is that smell?
    The reaction of the Italian Coast Guard indicated to me that some of the old Rome still exists.

  8. I’ve seen the same thing happen on #2 Hwy near Moose Jaw, and the driver sure didn’t look Russian to me! Wind and ice are hell!!

  10. For more details on the stop SOPA and PIPA, see EFF’s page on the issue at:
    http://blacklist.eff.org/
    I thought this would be a good time to drop EFF $100 for their good work. Interestingly, all Canadian provinces are listed among the US states on the EFF.org site and I had no difficulty sending an email to my “congressman”.
    Have blacked out my office web site and suggest that anyone who runs their own website do the same tomorrow. It might be worthwhile to send PMSH an email opposing Canada’s proposed version of the DMCA. I’ve been doing my own personal protest against the US entertainment industry by boycotting their products. Considering that 99% of what they produce is crap, it’s not that difficult.

  11. Schettino is like a cartoon character from a time back when it was still okay to make fun of cowardly Italians. (Wait, is that still allowed? Are Italians “ethnic”? I get confused.)

  12. “TOM FLANAGAN”
    “Beware Ottawa bearing gifts: Classic federalism is back”
    “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes –Virgil, Aeneid, II, 49.
    Great news for political scientists! Federalism is back in vogue.
    The federal government has declined to negotiate a new health-care deal with the provinces. Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty simply announced how much federal money would be made available and left it up to the provinces to decide how to spend it. Then, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the same minister’s plan for creating a national securities regulator was an unconstitutional invasion of the provinces’ power over property and civil rights.”
    “Executive federalism, with its jurisdictional confusion, has contributed mightily to the problem by generating so many shared-cost programs. Such programs create the illusion for both levels of government that they are spending something less than 100-cent dollars. But there is only one taxpayer, so debt accumulates relentlessly, whether it is booked to federal or provincial accounts.
    Classical federalism and classical liberalism are philosophical siblings. Both are premised on limited government enforcing necessary rules of conduct but not trying to direct civil society. In the Canadian context, the revival of classical federalism is an essential part of the revival of classical liberalism, with emphasis on smaller government, lower taxes and balanced budgets. It is good news that Stephen Harper’s Conservative government is now moving incrementally toward both classical federalism and classical liberalism.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/beware-ottawa-bearing-gifts-classic-federalism-is-back/article2304343/

  14. Of transfer payments: Money is the loot of socialism.
    “In the process, it started to make large transfer payments to Wallonia, which suffered from comparatively high unemployment. Such payments rarely promote goodwill between groups.”
    …-
    “Theodore Dalrymple”
    “The European Crack-Up”
    “Greeks aren’t Germans.”
    “A Belgian journalist who interviewed me recently about the European debt crisis asked me whether I believed in the European Project. I replied that I would answer her question—if she would tell me what the European Project actually was. By revealing my doubts, I proved to her that I suffered from the strange kind of mental debility known as Euroskepticism, a condition supposedly compounded of low intelligence and aggressive xenophobia. The low intelligence manifests itself in the patient’s view of European institutions as a gravy train for a transnational nomenklatura, rather than as the beginning of a new, generous, and free-spirited type of postnational identity. The xenophobia manifests itself as a secret desire for conflict and war, the European Union and its predecessors supposedly having been responsible for the avoidance of war on the Continent over the last 65 years.”
    http://city-journal.org/2012/22_1_otbie-european-debt-crisis.html

  15. Of Transfer Payments, aka the Stash: Canada, eh?
    Note: There is no “Harper health funding plan”.
    Socialists, aka PickPockets, are gunning for more loot from the Stash: our taxes.
    “Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger will lead a group of provincial and territorial finance ministers this spring on a quest to get Ottawa to redistribute those funds.”
    …-
    “Provinces keeping a close eye on boost to Alberta’s health funding”
    “Provinces that are among the losers in the Harper health funding plan are turning their sights on Alberta and the multibillion-dollar windfall the Conservative bastion is set to gain in the next decade.
    Rather than confront Prime Minister Stephen Harper head-on, provincial leaders left a two-day summit in Victoria resigned to the equal, per-capita cash transfer – at least until the next federal election.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/provinces-keeping-a-close-eye-on-boost-to-albertas-health-funding/article2305279/

  16. The video looks much like what you’d see on Highway 881 between Lac La Biche and Fort McMurray, AB.

  18. “Weather for your Life(TM)”.
    …-
    “Breaking Weather: Powerless in Portland”
    “Heavy snow in the Portland area has knocked out power to over 30,000 customers.”
    “Seattle: Winter’s Worth of Snow in One Day”
    “Schools are closed and a nightmare awaits commuters in Seattle today with a storm dumping a winter’s worth of snow in less than 24 hours.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/

  19. Ottawa: Left-liberalism’s Universe.
    Smell the diversity.
    …-
    “You Can Borrow a Stripper, OC Transpo Operator and Cab Driver at the Library”
    “The list of Library Human Books includes an Urban Aboriginal, a Person with Bi-Polar Disorder, OC Transpo driver, a stripper, a sex worker, a Somali Refugee, a taxi driver and a pediatric neurosurgeon.”
    http://www.cfra.com/

  20. “… an Urban Aboriginal, a Person with Bi-Polar Disorder, OC Transpo driver, a stripper, a sex worker, a Somali Refugee, a taxi driver and a pediatric neurosurgeon” walk into a bar.
    Oh, you heard that one eh.

  21. eh? (4:41)
    It’s obvious that you don’t understand the people you chastise. Interesting that you assume that medals which once belonged to a pacifist should be given any special treatment when even the historian decrying that these medals are being sold admits that not ALL medals in a similar situation should be rescued. If Shirley and Kiefer don’t care about their own heritage to buy the collection, why should we?

  23. “European Union”
    “Myth of equality at an end”
    “Whether it’s the planned European treaty, the S&P downgrade of nine eurozones states or reprimands issued to Hungary, recent events in the EU have highlighted how powerful countries are now imposing their law on their smaller neighbours. Polish columnist Jacek Żkowski aims to set the record straight.”
    “The events of the last three weeks have definitively put an end to EU hypocrisy that would have us believe that member states are equal albeit different partners.”
    http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1404381-myth-equality-end

  27. Neo-AGW PR: Ich Bin Ein Special Report Gott Im Himmel.
    “As is so often the case in winter, all solar panels more or less stopped generating electricity at the same time. To avert power shortages, Germany currently has to…”.
    …-
    “Solar Subsidy Sinkhole”
    “Re-Evaluating Germany’s Blind Faith in the Sun”
    “The costs of subsidizing solar electricity have exceeded the 100-billion-euro mark in Germany, but poor results are jeopardizing the country’s transition to renewable energy. The government is struggling to come up with a new concept to promote the inefficient technology in the future.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,809439,00.html
    “Western Canada deals with deep freeze”
    (canoenews)

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