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-Evaluating blog submissions and editing copy
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Whatever did happen to the minimum wage thing?

To that Kaleckian lesson, however, we want to add a Gorzian one, especially in the United States: take productivity gains more in the form of gains in disposable time than in the form of more consumption. That’s our socialist ticket out of crisis, economic and environmental.

It’s almost as if he doesn’t know what it is that the hyper capitalism of the US already does:

In this paper, we use five decades of time‐use surveys to document trends in the allocation of
time. We document that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable
number of market hours worked (per working‐age adult) between 1965 and 2003. Specifically,
we document that leisure for men increased by 6‒8 hours per week (driven by a decline in
market work hours) and for women by 4‒8 hours per week (driven by a decline in home
production work hours). This increase in leisure corresponds to roughly an additional 5 to 10
weeks of vacation per year, assuming a 40‐hour work week.

But then that’s our Lenin. The proletariat should strike, agitate, demand, struggle for, what they’re already getting.

Presumably with Lenin at the head of said struggle.

Guess he’s finally picked a battle that he can win at least.

Valuable stuff for anyone going to the beach this summer.

I thought it might be a larf to run a poll of my own: the Top 100 Worst UK Political Blogs.

The rules are pretty much the same as the TP poll. To get practice in in case next year’s referendum supports the move to the Alternative Vote, readers are invited to submit a rank order of their ten least favourite blogs. First gets ten points, 10th one point – I’m sure you know the drill. Only one set of votes per person please, and votes nominating less than three blogs will be discounted. No anonymous votes will be accepted as there’s no excuse for not identifying yourself by a monicker these days, and votes can either be submitted via email to top100worst at yahoo.co.uk or in the comments below.

Yes, vote for me as your least favourite blog. Then make sure that you’ve only got two other nominations (so as to avoid anyone coming up the outside by scooping up lots of low ranking nominations) and further, make sure that you don’t nominate as your second or third anyone that others already have.

Unlike any of the other blog rankings and competitions around this is one that I could actually win. No need for ballot stuffing of course, natural talent should be enough but I do have to bring it to your attention, don’t I?

Worst UK political blog. Yes, a title worth having and yes, if you look at the comments there I’m already in the running.

Come on peeps, you know your duty.

Vote for MEEEEEEE!!!!!

I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one is winning.

David Friedman.

When, of course, middle aged economist should in fact read middle aged monarch on how to nap.

As Charles V pointed out.

In order to have a successful siesta, one will require one throne, one castle and one castle key. Place oneself upon the throne inside the castle and hold the castle key in one’s left hand.

Fall asleep.

As one falls into a deep sleep one’s left hand will relax, dropping the large and heavy castle key onto the stone floor of the castle, thus waking one.

This process will take 15 to 20 minutes which is exactly the time required for a refreshing siesta.

If one is sadly bereft of thrones, castles or castle keys (although who really is without at least one of each of these essentials), no doubt a suitably innovative mind could create substitutes.

When I was growing up, we had a ping-pong table in the basement and I spent a good deal of time playing my father. We used a sliding handicap. I started with some number of points. Every time I lost my starting score went up by one point for the next game, every time I won it went down. Gradually, over the years, it crept down to zero.

David Friedman.

Others are a writer complete.

Yes, this does annoy me.

For Memorial Day.

Forgive my annoyance.

For I am jealous.

If you’re not reading him you should be.

General Fugh wasn’t the first Chinese flag officer in the US military. That was Brigadier Uzal G Ent, who led the raid on the Ploesti oilfields in 1943 and personally selected Paul Tibbets as pilot of the Hiroshima mission. Brigadier Ent’s grandfather was one of two ethnic Chinese Thais who settled in South Carolina in the 1840’s. They were Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins. I’ve not been able to find out which one was his granddad.

Anotherof the Bunker’s descendants also joined the Air Force.

1. #Osler detail: Kaschke case struck out for Abuse of Process, alternatively o/s limitation period. less than 20 seconds ago via mobile web
2. Outside court with Dave Osler, @slsingh, Robert Dougans, @dontgetfooled, @freedebate, @mepadraigreidy, @paul0evans1, @efctony 18 minutes ago via mobile web
3. Dougans even, sorry. 21 minutes ago via mobile web
4. # Robert Sougans and I now applying for vexatious litigant order against Kaschke #Osler 23 minutes ago via mobile web
5. Kaschke refuses to pay any costs; Eady refuses permission to appeal. 35 minutes ago via mobile web
6. Robert Dougans and I, on a pro bono basis, delighted to have got #Osler case struck out in its entirety. 40 minutes ago via mobile web
7. *Huge win* for #Osler. Eady has stunningly struck out *entire* claim as Abuse Of Process. about 1 hour ago via mobile web

Ms Kaschke is likely to find that “refusing to pay costs” is not a long term viable option.

Your perspective, though, gets a bit skewed. Strangely, whereas all the best blogs in Britain veer towards the Right, all the most entertaining people on Twitter seem to veer towards the Left. I don’t think it’s just the people I follow.

Left-wing blogs become dreary and earnest, but right-wing tweets (aaaagh) are functional and dull. There’s a great human truth in here, I think. I just can’t figure out what it might be.

Err, that lefty thoughts are so banal they can be put into 140 characters while righty thoughts are more nuanced and balanced?

Because righties, being privately educated, can actually write?

That righties are verbose and cannot get their thoughts into 140 characters? That righties, being privately educated, cannot in fact write and get their thoughts into 140 characters?

And your thought on this is?

No-one would ever dare say “I don’t know how to use a telephone / DVD player / washing machine” but “I’m useless with computers” is still far too prevalent and indeed acceptable.

It must be the Geek in him.

I get horribly confused by DVD players *, washing machines** and anything other than simply dialling a number on a telephone is beyond me…..as anyone who has ever tried to leave me a voicemail knows.

Why should it be unacceptable to not give a shit about the details of technologies that you don’t give a shit about? As to computers….look, it’s a typewriter with a web browser to access the intertubes. And as for this:

An assumption that, because I’m the IT guy, I can solve anything if they ask me…

If you can’t, what are you doing masquerading as the IT guy? You have heard of the division and specialisation of labour? You go off and learn how to do that and we’ll do something else?

* No, really, it it’s anything more than put the disk in and press play I don’t get it. I’ve, at times, spent 15 minutes or so with various hand held things pointing them at various boxes and screens and got nowhere, giving up and going off to read a book instead.

**Insert jokes about men etc. Yes, I can turn a washing machine on but so I’m repeatedly told I don’t do it in the right way. For some odd reason.

Think of Superman as the politician and Supermonk as the market…..

They’re all at it. Self-proclaimed masters of the shadowy international scandium oligopoly (a.k.a. Tim Worstall) are doing it economically.

Apparently he’s covering political blogging for the election. However, I can’t quite see where….

Jesus certainly picked a bad time of year to die, why do all his main life events appear to coincide with bank holidays?

Liddle doesn’t believe in free speech – he simply believes in his right to say what he wants