If there is an emerging genetic underclass, I could run for class president or class clown. Read more in ![Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/04/isle_royale_fog.jpg "Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]")
"Brendan, this is what the world looks like all the time to me. Just a little fog. It’s a fine day for boating on the Great Lakes.” Without missing a stroke he turned to dart a skeptical glance at me. Brendan the Navigator. When we named him I didn’t tell his mother everything the legendary Irish name implied. But I imagined him taking on the role of navigator for me. Growing up with Coastal Survey charts and tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks, he came to know Superior as another home. He never doubted the wisdom of canoeing there with a father who was half blind. 
![Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/02/charlotte_casiraghi_red_dress.jpg "Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]")
When I figured out who Charlotte Casiraghi was, I realized that I once sent a poem to her mother. 
The legendary Kiki of Montparnasse posed for Man Ray’s 
Before you start dreaming about buying a new boat with all the cash you’ll earn while working at home for Mechanical Turk, listen to this talk by Jonathan Zittrain of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The messenger is brilliant, even as the message is scary and depressing: “a new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace.”
Entries Tagged as 'surrealist economics'
Take Flight, Unemployed Knowledge Workers: Data-Mining In The Cloud Pays A Penny A Ton
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February 26, 2023 at 7:09am
by Mark Willis
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Hey, Paul Krugman - Fiscal Fan Boys Need You!
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March 24, 2023 at 7:07pm
by Mark Willis
Hey, Paul Krugman by Jonathan Mann:
Hey Paul Krugman,
Why aren’t you in the administration?
Is there some kind of politicking that I don’t understand?
I mean, Timothy Geithner is like some little weasel.
Wasn’t he in a position of power
when all this shit went down in the first place?
When I listen to you, things seem to make sense
When I [...]
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Down & Out In A Third-Grade Lunchroom
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March 13, 2023 at 6:00am
by Mark Willis
Just in case you need another surreal economic model to understand mortage-backed securities and credit-default swaps – a.k.a. why you are broke and I am broke and Warren Buffet isn’t feeling so hot right now, either – Planet Money has a hilarious story about trading Cheetos and Nutter Butter bars for frosted layer cake futures [...]
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Fashionably Down & Out: In Paris, The Gleaners
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March 12, 2023 at 6:00am
by Mark Willis
Paris is famous for its open-air food markets. But difficult economic times are turning them into giant foraging sites — and not just for the poor. [Source: iStockphoto.com/NPR]
In my mind, NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley has become the Janet Flanner of her times. I imagine New Yorker readers in the 1930s turning to Flanner’s “Letters from Paris” [...]
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Let’s Drink the More-With-Less Kool-Aid!
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February 26, 2023 at 8:02pm
by Mark Willis
If you want to do more with less and smile along the way, Bobby Jindal has some Kool-Aid for you. Americans can do anything. [AP TV/NYT]
If you haven’t had any yet, you will. As NPR’s Chana Joffe Walt points out, the more-with-less trope has a long history stretching back at least as far as Ben [...]