I’m sneezing up a storm today, and the good old allergy pill hasn’t helped. I do hope it’s not the same virus that afflicted my housemate for two weeks last month.<\/p>\n
Who is the center of the movie universe?<\/a> Kevin Bacon is not even in the top thousand. Rod Steiger<\/a> has the lowest total path length. But would the result be different if actors were weighted by some measure of prominence (e.g. number of credits)?<\/p>\n It’s annoying to find a crank on our side. Rex Curry<\/a> has for some time been documenting the sordid history of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, and bully for him; but lately he’s gone a bit nuts in his efforts to demonstrate that the Nazi swastika stands for Socialism, frequently citing sources that, like this<\/a>, show the word Sieg<\/i> or Sieg-rune<\/i> (symbol of victory, appropriate to any flavor of statism) but not Sozialismus<\/i>; and here<\/a> he reads a scribbled Adolf<\/i> as another S-rune (standing for Sozialist<\/i>, since no other German word begins with S) despite the wiggly remnants of the original letters and the cross-stroke of the f<\/i>. Rex, a few pieces of unambiguous evidence – which are probably somewhere in among the chaff – would be far more effective than this farrago.<\/p>\n I lived in Los Angeles for three years without ever knowing how to get to the Hollywood Sign<\/a>. And speaking of views from on high, every time I fly to Chicago (come to think of it, the last time was quite a few years ago) I look for Fermilab<\/a>, but I’ve never spotted a buffalo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Aaron Krowne<\/a> should stick to mathematics rather than writing absurdities like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n The H1-B program has allowed companies hiring software engineers to pay less<\/em> for more engineers by running to the government for help. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As if there were no migration in a state of nature! It would be more accurate to say that the Immigration Acts (in which you’ll find the H-1B program) allow skilled natives to get paid more<\/em> by running to the government to restrict supply. This incidentally reduces the wages of similar workers in other countries, giving foreign employers a price advantage (to the extent that their products are able to enter the market).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sneezing up a storm today, and the good old allergy pill hasn’t helped. I do hope it’s not the same virus that afflicted my housemate for two weeks last month. Who is the center of the movie universe? Kevin … Continue reading \n