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Actually, only four Nobel winners

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I got it wrong yesterday when I said, based off a radio report, that twelve Nobel winners had signed a letter saying the gas tax holiday was a bad idea. Actually, it was only four Nobel winners. And 280 other professional economists. I haven’t found the letter yet from Nobel winners saying it’s a good idea.

It astounds me that someone running as a conservative and a straight talker, the guy who told the auto workers that their jobs weren’t coming back, would propose this. I think that was fairly brilliant on McCain’s part actually, but don’t we deserve more than politics aimed at taking advantage of desperate people and pitching to the lowest common denominator? Like I say, give relief to people who have families and low to middle income through some intelligent means, not an eighteen cents discount on gas that will mostly just get absorbed by the oil companies in higher profits.

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Free Alaa!

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Among others, an Egyptian blogger, winner of a Reporters Without Borders award last year was detained by the Egyptian government during a peaceful protest in favor of a more independent judiciary as covered by Reporters without Borders on May 12 in Egypt. You can get more information at Free Alaa!, at the Reporters Without Borders links just given, on Alaa’s own website (he is blogging from prison it appears). I’m not sure what you can do, but people are mobilizing to cover the story by doing what I’m doing, namely writing a short piece and including a link that uses the word “Egypt” as anchor text and links to http://freealaa.blogspot.com/ in an effort to make that one of the top-ranked sites for a search on “Egypt”.

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The Pleasures of Fresno

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Going through Fresno the other day I spotted two license plates that pretty much sum up the feel of the place. The first one was a plain plate, but with a frame that said “I can predict the future… God wins”. (more…)

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