Lipids!
After following Evolutionary Fitness for just over a year, I decided to go get my cholesterol levels checked to see what the effects were on my lipids. The last time I had my lipid levels checked was a...
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Revolutionary Alchemy: Turning lead into irony
As part of the reading for my advanced standing test in “History of the American Revolution”, I’m reading a book called “The Unknown American Revolution” by Gary Nash. The book goes beyond the...
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Tax time
The taxman came around this year, as usual. From my work in Georgia in 2009, I owed the almighty Georgian state an extra $17.00: If they’re gonna take my money, they should at least know that I’m not...
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The new USDA food recommendations aren’t even worse — they are the same.
Some of you may have noticed last week that the government unveiled a “revolutionary” change in the dietary advice they’ve been giving us for years. Instead of the old food pyramid model, they have now...
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A serf by any other name
Schoolchildren typically learn about the feudal system in history class, when covering the medieval period in Europe. It is typically presented as an ancient, obsolete form of government, practiced by...
View ArticleThe Economic American Revolution
During my last semester in college, when I had to take 3 unexpected classes to graduate, I wrote a paper on the economic background of the American Revolutionary War and the Constitution. Most people...
View ArticleAmerica’s War on Peace — the costs of our foreign policy
My last post covered a paper I wrote on the economics of the American Revolution during my last semester at Tech. Continuing in the same vein this week, I also wanted to post my Senior Economics...
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Every time you get groped, the terrorists win
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster” -Friedrich Nietzsche It’s been a decade since religious fanatics murdered 3,000 Americans by attacking the...
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Election 2012: Right about Romney (and Ryan) and Gridlock 2012!
Romney In 2008, when John McCain somehow won the Republican primary*, I took solace in the fact that “at least he’s not Mitt Romney.” Mitt Romney struck me, in 2008, as nothing but a republican John...
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Flip-flopping on Federalism
Pigs are flying and I’m pretty sure hell is in the process of freezing over. Last November, Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana for adults, in defiance of federal law and an...
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