"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" November 2008 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

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A physicist cogitates on solving the fiat currency problem by TokyoTom

Lubos Motl , a bright young Czech physicist with a winning way with those he considers idiots*, has decided to cogitate on fiat money and the US`s screwed up monetary system, and proposes to peg the dollar to the Dow : You might think that I am going...
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Beggar's Banquet: a note on bailouts to the NYT's Tim Egan by TokyoTom

Timothy Egan , reporter, acclaimed book author and current columnist at the New York Times , posted an honest and understandably confused piece last week , in which he called for a temporary end to the frenzy of Bush-era socializations and wealth-transfers...
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Tragedy of the ocean commons: stocks of giant Atlantic bluefin tuna look ready to crash, like the once rich cod fishery by TokyoTom

Despite an 80% drop in populations of east Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna since the mid-1970s, and continued massive overfishing above agreed quotas, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), under pressure...
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Doug Bandow urges Republicans to rebuild based on calls for a modest foreign foreign policy by TokyoTom

Doug, you were right on Iraq in 2003 and are right now , but haven't you forgotten one little thing? What gives you any cause to believe that the stiff-necked neocons and others who fell for their war-mongering (the Christian right and other) will...
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Chris Horner and neocons on climate change "alarmists": the pot calls the kettle black by TokyoTom

Chris Horner of CEI has long been a near one-man band in attacking the excesses of the left with respect to concerns about climate change (while appearing to forget concerns by some on the right, corporate heads, scientists and defense/intelligence analysts...
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[Revised] Corporations, the state, limited liability and rent-seeking: Some criticisms of Huebert and Block's criticisms of Long by TokyoTom

[Update: Items 2 & 3 revised and an item 4 added.] J.H. Huebert and Walter Block have posted a critique of Roderick Long 's recent Cato essay . Allow me to make a few comments: 1. Huebert and Long argue that "There Is No Such Thing as Corporate...
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Barbarians at the gate? The WSJ wrings its hands over Somali pirates but ignores the failure of property owners to defend themselves by TokyoTom

The Wall Street Journal runs a remarkably whiny and unperceptive piece by weekly "Global View" columnist Bret Stephens about the expanding problem of ocean piracy off of Somali waters in and around the Gulf of Aden. An unvarnished neocon and...
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Fein on Iraq: Obama should unilaterally limit Presidential discretion by rejecting the AUMF by TokyoTom

Good idea, Bruce , but do you really expect Obama to bite, and thereby drastically reduce his own discretion? Obama already has George W. Bush and Congress to blame for the war - what important advantage does he gain by claiming the AUMF was an unconstitutional...
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Jerry Taylor/Cato fails to fully engage Yglesias' "free-market case for revenue-neutral carbon pricing" by TokyoTom

Along with Roderick Long 's recent Cato Unbound piece on libertarianism and corporatism, Cato hosted a reaction essay by liberal Matthew Yglesias , in which Yglesias made the following side comment: The free-market case for a revenue-neutral carbon...
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Fauxtography? While the oceans swim in plastics, Pollowitz calls those who photograph the results liars by TokyoTom

In a brief comment entitled " Fauxtography ?" in the conservative National Review blog on November 18, Greg Pollowitz (founder/CEO of iQ Venture Partners Inc.), remarks on a recent article and photo purporting to show the fatal ingestion of...
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CEI joins enviros and others in broad coalition to LOBBY against ethanol subsidies by TokyoTom

The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Conservative Union have joined with environmental groups such as the Earth Policy Institute and the Environmental Working Group and with meat growers, food processors and others in the " Food...
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Bob Murphy in Forbes: no to "green" jobs, but otherwise? No advice by TokyoTom

Kudos to Robert P. Murphy for a new opinion piece dated Novermber 15 in Forbes.com regarding "The High Costs Of 'Green Recovery'" . The biographical note appended to the piece describes Bob as "a senior economist with the Institute...
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Leadership on climate change and clean energy from ..... Google? by TokyoTom

I just lost my prior attempt at this post so forgive the brevity and lack of analysis in this one. Google is stepping up its activities and announcements (by CEO Eric Schmidt ) in the climate change / clean energy / "smart grid" interface, including...
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Senate to host presentations by Am. Meteorological Soc. on geoengineering and carbon capture by TokyoTom

On Friday, November 21, the American Meteorological Society is putting on a seminar at the U.S. Senate entitled "Two Engineering Measures to Reduce Global Warming: Injecting Particles into the Atmosphere and "Clean" Coal". The presentations...
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Progressives urge Obama to invest in fast reactors to recycle nuclear "waste" by TokyoTom

Is the Progressive Policy Institute signalling an Interest by Obama in making greater use of nuclear power? A November 7 press release, the PPI specifically urges in the headline that "Dealing with Nuclear Waste; America Must Emulate France's...
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