Dr. Keynes Was Right: Ode to Bubba

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

$536,800,000 MARF^™(party like it's 1829)
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]

Milton was going on about the money supply, so what I said was everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my written work.
-- Robert M. Solow, 1924-2023 [Dr. Hemond noted that he made his fortune in the stock market]

There's a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1. By the time we've detected 10, it's probably too late.
-- Rick Bright/2024 [read the report; it'll curl your hair]

Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him: "The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]

In Jefferson's scheme, primary schools were to be free to students (both boys and girls), and the best male students were to attend the academies and university at public expense.
-- Monticello.org [take that, MTG]

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth -- not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced -- to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery.

-- Marriner Eccles/1951

This week's thought

The top internal candidate for the job is Ms. Pope, a 30-year veteran of Boeing who has held a number of senior finance jobs and ran the company's services business before becoming its chief operating officer in January.
-- Sydney Ember/2024 [read and find out that all the candidates are from the Evil Side, finance, the one that got them in trouble]

28 March 2022

Ode to Bubba - part the second

Another episode of Bubba Was Right. Today the NYT has an interview with Masha Gessen, Russophile and frequent talking head on the Snowflake 'news' programs. The first half is the discussion, while the back half is a list of books she recommends.

The book that fits the bill is 'Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources.' By Alexander Etkind. Polity, 2021.

It's not entirely limited to Russia, but I think it actually goes a very long way to explaining how Russia works.

Donbas is a significant source of fossil fuels. And lots of Russian speakers. Two kinds of resources.

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Ode to Bubba - part the second

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