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Time for a Greycation!

Millions have already abandoned their foreign holiday in favour of a ‘staycation’.
However, as families continue to find money short in the fallout from the recession, millions more are rediscovering the ‘greycation’ to ensure they get a break.
The term is used to describe a vacation where three generations of a family stay together.

From the Daily Mail:

Millions have already abandoned their foreign holiday in favour of a ‘staycation’. 

However, as families continue to find money short in the fallout from the recession, millions more are rediscovering the ‘greycation’ to ensure they get a break. The term is used to describe a vacation where three generations of a family stay together.

An estimated 2.7million families are planning to holiday in the UK this year with children, parents and grandparents all in the same resort, according to a survey. 

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Testosterone and the Last Man

Liberal democracy, among us, is achieving the goal that Fukuyama predicted for it: It is eliminating the alpha males from our midst, and at a dizzyingly accelerating rate. But in Muslim societies, the alpha male is still alive and well. While we in America are drugging our alpha boys with Ritalin, the Muslims are doing everything in their power to encourage their alpha boys to be tough, aggressive, and ruthless. … We are proud if our sons get into a good college; they are proud if their sons die as martyrs. To rid your society of high-testosterone alpha males may bring peace and quiet; but if you have an enemy that is building up an army of alpha boys to hate you fanatically and who have vowed to destroy you, you will be committing suicide. … The end of testosterone in the West alone will not culminate in the end of history, but it may well culminate in the end of the West.

–Jon Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

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Externalities

Economists fondly call it an externality. What’s an externality? It’s what happens when someone takes an action but someone else, without agreeing, pays some or all the costs of that action. An externality is an economic version of taxation without representation. If you happen to live downwind from a fertilizer factory, the ammonium stench is an externality. 

–Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, SuperFreakonomics

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Gay Soldiers and Genocide

 

  • ROGER VAN DE WETERING,
  • Dutch defense ministry spokesman, after U.S. general John Sheehan claimed Dutch peacekeeping forces failed at Srebrenica because of poor morale over openly gay soldiers

 

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Who Was Generous to Haiti?

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