Archive for the ‘Going Galt’ Category
Working from undisclosed locations
This seems like a no-brainer to me: Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) will introduce a bill Wednesday requiring large U.S. companies to disclose how many of their jobs are based on U.S. soil and how many are based abroad, an attempt to shed light on the number of American jobs being outsourced. Such data is closely [...]
February 1, 2012
· 
DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
74 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
The lunatic is in my head
Reader J sent me this. We can’t find it online so all we have is this rather large scan. It’s written by the CEO of Restoration Hardware and appears in the latest edition of the Restoration Hardware catalog, it goes on forever, so I’ll give an excerpt: “Every movement has a LUNATIC FRINGE.” America’s first [...]
December 17, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 72 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
Apparently The Cause Of Income Inequality Is Poor People Existing
That’s this week’s Occupy message from the LA Times, as the “Let’s get the Dirty Effing Hippies” counter-movement rolls on in cities like LA and elsewhere across the country. AEI Junior Randian, Third Class Nick Schulz explains why America’s massive income inequality is reality, and it’s because of you bloody poor people. The reason is [...]
December 1, 2011
· Zandar · 126 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, Going Galt, Jump! You Fuckers!, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You
How low will he go?
Mitch Daniels is the far-Right Governor who created the template for Walker in Wisconsin and Kasich in Ohio. I know the myth goes that the Tea Party took over the formerly moderate GOP in 2010 and that’s where the coordinated conservative multi-state strategy came from, but the truth is there’s no daylight between Walker and [...]
November 18, 2011
· Kay · 55 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Election 2012, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Glibertarianism, Going Galt, Good News For Conservatives
What costume shall the poor girl wear?
Humorless libruls just don’t get foreclosure mill humor: Let me describe a few of the photos. In one, two Baum employees are dressed like homeless people. One is holding a bottle of liquor. The other has a sign around her neck that reads: “3rd party squatter. I lost my home and I was never served.” [...]
October 29, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 36 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, Jump! You Fuckers!, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Sometimes you have to admit defeat
I tried to write a proper analysis of Peggy Noonan’s latest emission. I labored through her evocation of a red and white and purple-prosed America that I suspect only ever existed in Peggy’s wildest gin-dreams: ...The things that divide us are not new, yet there’s a sense now that the glue that held us together [...]
October 28, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 131 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, IOKIYAR, Jump! You Fuckers!, Open Thread
In Soviet Illinois, company tax you
In Illinois, several companies are now being allowed to pocket their employees’ state income tax, as an enticement to convince the companies to stay in Illinois. Amazing (via).
October 27, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 29 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
Celebrity hot tub
Our Galtian overlords: pretty fucking far from inventing a perpetual motion machine. Reed Hastings was soaking in a hot tub with a friend last month when he shared a secret: his company, Netflix, was about to announce a plan to divide its movie rental service into two — one offering streaming movies over the Internet, [...]
October 24, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 66 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
Really should be back in school
I can’t get away from the Steve Jobs articles that dominate the front pages of all the news sites I go to, so I read one. This made me laugh: In the case of Obama, Jobs refused to meet with the president unless Obama called him personally to ask for the meeting. When the pair [...]
October 24, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 160 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
Do Randroids dream of robotic sheep?
No, they dream of recessions: Here’s a pretty remarkable interview with independent stock and forex trader Alessio Rastani on the BBC this morning, in which he’s either being perfectly candid about how traders are viewing the Eurozone crisis, or he’s just trolling. Anyway, he’s a sociopath. He says that the euro’s collapse is inevitable and [...]
September 26, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 62 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, Sociopaths, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, We Are All Mayans Now
Why are tech people so often glibertarians?
I’m watching “Ace In The Hole” on AMC, awesome, best line so far “When the history of this sun-baked Siberia is written, these shameful words will live in infamy—‘No chopped chicken livers!’” So I’m too distracted for a real post, but there’s something that’s been on my mind a lot lately: why are tech people [...]
September 13, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 271 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, Open Thread
Love it or leave it
This made me laugh: In a sign of his frustration at the investigations into his alleged crimes and misdemeanours, Silvio Berlusconi vowed in July to leave Italy, which he described as a “shitty country” that “sickened” him. Not so dissimilar from all the great American patriots who vowed to move to Costa Rica if their [...]
September 1, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 31 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
Open thread
This one goes out to ABL, John, and all the front-pagers who have gone Galt.
August 27, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 83 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Going Galt, Open Thread
Sittin’ in a bar, nibblin’ tipplin’ a jar in Jackson
I see from Kthug that the Jackson Hole economics symposium is coming up soon. Aspen, Davos, Jackson Hole…how are they different and how are they the same? Are there other things like this? I can’t keep it all straight.
August 25, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 37 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
It sure beats Riker’s
This has been in the works for a while, but the Manhattan District Attorney is about to drop charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. If the witness isn’t credible, the witness isn’t credible, that’s how the justice system is supposed to work. But get ready for another round of “how could this lying nobody ruin such a [...]
August 22, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 114 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Going Galt
