Author Archives: Anton

the job thing

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 June 05 by Anton

Had a job interview today at a lawfirm which does consumer class actions in anti-trust — a field which I find ethically dodgy. I’d like to get out of law entirely, and work in a business with real customers and … Continue reading →

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necessary and sufficient conditions

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 June 04 by Anton

Tibor Machan misreads the Declaration of Independence: It requires “a long train of abuses and usurpations,” which reduce a government to “absolute despotism,” before secession is justified. On the contrary, the sentence containing that phrase states a sufficient condition. The … Continue reading →

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two marvels today

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 June 04 by Anton

. . the bank machine gave me an old-style $twenty, the first I’d seen in months; and I saw a squirrel burying seeds (conifer), which I can’t recall ever seeing before.

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no foolin’

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 June 04 by Anton

I awoke today from – or perhaps ‘through’ fits better – a dream that Diana and/or Paul Hsieh (neither of whom I know from the neighborhood raccoons, but whose blogs I read yesterday) had replaced my bedroom window with their … Continue reading →

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the dark side of Sanrio

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 June 04 by Anton

“Hello Cthulhu“. (Sent to me by Astraea, under the title “NEXT election”)

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“It’s a good tax code.”

Posted on Sunday, 2002 June 02 by Anton

When I was a young idealist, finance was beneath me; now it’s merely beyond me. I got a form letter from my late employer (a firm that essentially shut down in December), saying that my 401(a)(4) money is waiting for … Continue reading →

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stream of pseudothought

Posted on Sunday, 2002 June 02 by Anton

Columbia Newsblaster cobbles together phrases from various news sources to generate summaries of top stories. The result can be surreal: . . . Congressional Republicans are using a government – paid videotaped message from President Bush to parry Democratic attacks against them … Continue reading →

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