The NY Times is running a piece today about the never ending march towards war on the Indian Sub Continent.  Looks like the Pakistani Intelligence Service (ISI) had a hand in helping the group suspected of launching/funding the attacks in Mumbai.  This really isn’t much of a surprise to anyone that has followed this region of the [...]

So it looks like Wikipedia has now been labled a distributor for child pornography.  This has essentially blocked a big chunk of users in Brittan from accessing Wikipedia.  We could go on and on about how the kiddie porn nonsense has a chilling effect on speech.  Or how the current hunt against kiddie porn is [...]

Have you ever noticed that adults really don’t like it when you make fun of children?  If you don’t believe me here’s an experiment.  Grab a banana.  Go to a park on a nice summers day.  Find a woman pushing a stroller, make sure that she is a white woman because you can’t let racial [...]

We wish this was a link to the braggadocios rappers obituary, but that’s merely wishful thinking. While we wait for Kanye to finally make the “ultimate sacrifice” for his “art” we ask that you provide suggestions for his funeral celebrations.  We’re suggesting that he be remembered as the “Elvis of Hip Pop”…  Not [...]

We have no love for NASCAR. Cars drive around in circles for hours. How boring. For some reason it seems appropriate that FOX has chosen a gopher named “Digger” to represent this event. Here’s hoping that digger, much like NASCAR, dig themselves into a deep hole and we never see them [...]

Add this one to the list of stories we could not make up. It appears that a crank call made to the Pakistani President lead Pakistan to move to an offensive war footing with an intended invasion of India.
Hoax Highlights Fragile Peace Between India, Pakistan
So let’s say you just moved all your back [...]

The sales data is starting to trickle in and it looks like black Friday and Cyber Monday turned out to be marginally better than last year.  This could still mean that retailers did not make very much profit due to discounting, but the American Consumer appears to still be alive…

We’re doing our part to keep track of all the rosy predictions being issued by people with a vested interest in maintaing inflated real estate prices.  Congratulations Christopher Joye - You’ve made our list.  We been arguing for well over a year that the Australian real estate market is going to collapse on itself.  We [...]

Swarovski Crystals are really nothing more than leaded glass that has been cut into different shapes.  Even though they are made from excruciatingly common materials, they often command prices approaching the levels of low quality diamonds.  Can you imagine how fat their profit margins must be?  In light of this realization, we will be launching [...]

Wow…  I knew there was something amiss with Jerry Bowyer…  Besides his resume being really light on any real economic research, and the lack of any kind of academic credentials, this is the real money shot:
The Bowyers are currently engaged in a family project consisting of translating the books of Genesis, St. John’s Gospel and [...]