Macro Flame War

There are lots of Great Internet Debates- over operating systems, video game consoles, or politics.  This last week, a similar sort of name-calling verbal brawl broke out among prominent macro-economists.  But that exchange featured long posts and highly technical arguments.  To simplify it for you, I will summarize the debate as the flame war it [...]

Devil’s Dictionary, Revised Edition

Blogger (n): A creature which ingests information and excretes blog posts.

Our highest praise yet

According to Eleanor, this blog is “not meaningless”!
Which to her means that it has ceased to deserve the epithet “blog” and is in need of a new moniker.
Of course, she might be a bit biased.

Shout out to the World

The internet is a loud and bustling place, I’m sure no one is listening to my birth-cries. That’s alright with me. I’ve had a Livejournal and Xanga, used them only to keep in touch. WordPress seems much less likely to become a social-networking phenomenon.
Having come home to Maine, I now have little [...]