By ArtBear | Published:
July 10, 2009
English Proud, thoughtful, refined, moderate, communicative and articulate. Dishonest, cold, distant, passive-aggressive, sensitive (especially to conflict) Irish Passionate, honest, humble, musical, welcoming, trusting, self-conscious yet eager Sensitive, compulsive, morbidly obsessed with suffering, self-abasing (shame), confrontational Faced with the task of rationalizing conflicting impulses, I’ve married refined English taste with the Irish’ passionate thirst for life, [...]
By ArtBear | Published:
June 30, 2009
The Democrats: Party of intelligence and compassion. The Republicans: Party of down-to-Earth realism and common sense. If we truly want to be realistic, then we should face the fact that the two parties are fundamentally indistinguishable and in practice follow the same flawed policies, with only superficial differences designed to feed the image which the [...]
By ArtBear | Published:
June 21, 2009
Go to War There is a persistent myth that war is good for the economy; this makes no sense. War can be made good for an individual economy if it can pay for itself (the plan for Iraq before oil sabotage), however, the net result of war for all involved is always tremendous waste. We [...]
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By ArtBear | Published:
May 22, 2009
In my last post I referred to the securities market as a “Natural System,” and I think the way I use that term requires elaboration. Defined most broadly, a natural system (or organic system) is one in which the individual, uncoordinated efforts of any number of small parts are aggregated so that they use all [...]
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