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Journal Name: Review of Keynesian Economics
It’s National Garlic Day. Which makes one wonder, are there boozes incorporating the pungent herb? There are surprisingly few. A couple garlic-flavored vodkas and that’s about it. It’s strange. There’s a liqueur for every herb, pepper, flower and fruit on the planet, there are snake- and lizard-flavored liquors, for heaven’s sake, but not a garlic liqueur. I sense a vacuum. I think the garlic-growing regions of the world need to step up. I mean, what could be more jolting than a shot of fermented garlic? It’d fix that hangover right up. It’d probably cure the common cold.
Seriously though thanks for touching my dick.
The joke is that the nerd character is monstrously evil
That is what a taint is, in my art
Those darn fingers are too small, darn it!
Make my skeleton kiss me on my skinlips
All work and no play makes Jon a dull boy
Alternate jokes: Roast Bleef, Slalamli, Tlurkey Breast
I don't even know that I have a tongue yet
I'm not gonna lie to you, it's gross
Eagle, more like PEEgle
Two sort of offensive strips in a row *fistpump*
Don't make me fire a third round, sir
Open your fucking ears! I said I have a real bad tummy ache!
Sometimes things work out for the best
These penises are badly water damaged
Who doesn't want a slippery butt. Get that butt as slippery as you can, please.
Mission Control check out my dick
The slimy thing is called that because it is slimy
Beep boop don't be a homo beep
Once upon a time, there was a murderhole
kick kick kick kick kick awk awwwkk kick
And your purse and lipstick and stuff
it's like a coin purse, or just a regular purse
I'm not even sure fluffers are real
Ghost mom, you're embarrassing me!
the man has an erection at a time when he should not have one
And I dunno, Alf. Alf is in the movie?
the other arm says "THERE ARE A LOT OF FACTORS TO CONSIDER"
Now is it bigger than a truck? Nobody knows
The regular eagle just wants to see you succeed
There was a time when it seemed Papua New Guinea had managed to dodge a bullet. Instances of SARS-CoV-2 were minimal, along with its disease, COVID-19. Through 2020, the country of eight million people recorded a mere 900 cases. The World Health Organization praised the PNG government in a September 2020 news release in “taking…
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For G.B. Eyes now forget the crevice of their sleep, And spider limbs feel from that bed and move Almost as slow as light across the floor To where an easel stands and he has drawn Thin tracery, but not of flimsy air. So day undrapes the room and webs of art— The hungry zones of paintings incomplete— But in this light he must begin anew, Though patiently . . . assemble life again Through charcoal sicks and tubes of green and blue. A void of canvas waits for him, and fruit And bottles on a chiaroscuro […]
In that 510,000 wellbeing years is all the misery caused by lockdowns and social distancing: all the cancelled weddings, all the additional cases of depression, all the extra anxiety.
The Commercial Buildings (1886) have seen better days. Marrickville.
This has deeply split the student movement, were some groups want to focus on reforming democracy, rather than criticise the monarchy.
Sunday flea market. Campsie.
As part of our 80 Years of Meanjin collaboration with the University of Melbourne’s Archives and Special Collections department, we are delighted to announce a Meanjin poetry competition for University of Melbourne students. If you are a current student of the University, you’re invited to submit your unpublished poetry of any length, theme and style here. Please include your current student number in your author bio. Entries open today and will close on Monday May 10 at 11:59pm. Please include only one poem per submission. You may submit as many times as you like.
Project-Syndicate recently published the latest Op Ed (April 16, 2021) from former German finance minister and current President of the German Bundestag, Wolfgang Schäuble – Are We Risking a Debt Pandemic?. He is the person who personified the so-called ‘die schwarze null’ (Black Zero) while finance Minister. His conduct as finance minister was an instrumental element in extending the GFC across the Eurozone.
Lindsey German on the return of Tory sleaze and the persistence of the War on Terror
Been carless for a long time so it isn't as if walking is alien to me, but during the worst of Covid, well, what else was there to do? Lots and lots of walking.
Though when riding transit isn't an appealing option, the possible routes are a bit limited...
No point. Evening thread! Tomorrow is...
This was a good Zoom meeting: ‘The Austerity Doctrine in the Time of Coronavirus’ here (about an hour), with Yanis Varousakis, Naomi Klein, Brian Eno and Stephanie Kelton, which is quite a line-up. For me Yanis Varousakis was the most on the ball in his assertion that the ‘nightmare of the powerful is that the... Read more
Traditional mafia trash talk from the Republicans’ favorite Governor:
from Lars Syll An ongoing concern is that excessive focus on formal modeling and statistics can lead to neglect of practical issues and to overconfidence in formal results … Analysis interpretation depends on contextual judgments about how reality is to be mapped onto the model, and how the formal analysis results are to be mapped […]
A new sandpit for long side discussions, conspiracy theories, idees fixes and so on.
To be clear, the sandpit is for regular commenters to pursue points that distract from regular discussion, including conspiracy-theoretic takes on the issues at hand. It’s not meant as a forum for visiting conspiracy theorists, or trolls posing as such.
Back again with another Monday Message Board.
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Don’t mind me. Just dropping my bill to require proof of vaccination to vote in person. https://t.co/TpibDWeLob
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) April 18, 2021
A bit of a joke, I think, but consider if Democrats were clearly and obviously and explicitly crafting voting laws to prevent exurban white people from voting?
Every April since I first read it, in 2004, I take down and re-read some portions of my copy of The Discovery of Global Warming (Harvard), by Spence Weart.
The logic of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a recipe for empty cynicism.
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This two-part article is based on a speech that I gave to a webinar sponsored by the Centre for Public Integrity on 15 April about how the public service should contribute to the integrity and accountability of executive government. Part 1 discusses the broad role and capability of the public service to assist the government in policy development and its implementation.
For at least some products , Australia may not so much be “left alone on the playing field” as substituted off and only able to watch from the sidelines.
Afghanistan has joined Australia’s list of lost wars, and it’s our longest. The Prime Minister’s tears on announcing it may have been for that, or for Australia’s 41 dead, 249 wounded, estimated 500 veteran suicides, and innumerable cases of PTSD, at a cost of A$10 billion.
The Morrison government has provided Indemnity for vaccine manufacturers but not Australians at risk of the exceedingly rare, but sometimes fatal, blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Since the February 1 coup, the Tatmadaw – the official name of Myanmar’s armed forces – has escalated its crackdown on citizens protesting against the military takeover that ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected government.
America is about to revive an idea that was left for dead decades ago. It’s called industrial...
A recent edition of ‘The Conversation’ carried an article, by Small, Shaw and McPhail, titled ‘1 in 4 unemployed Australians has a degree. How did we get to this point.’
The about three-fold increase in graduate numbers over the last 30 years has allowed;
In Part 1 – Policy and Progress, I pointed out the problem of focusing on schooling and the myths of its contribution to economic growth. In Part 2, I emphasise the importance of teacher-led assessment and the fundamental importance of early childhood.
Teachers and student assessment are critical
When politicians start getting more mad at undeniable evidence of extreme, widespread, endemic corruption and lack of accountability for our police forces than they do at activists for highlighting it, sometimes inartfully, those activists will perhaps quiet down a bit and stop interrupting brunch.
by Tony Wikrent
Strategic Political Economy
Michael Hudson: America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism
Michael Hudson, April 15, 2021 [Naked Capitalism]
In my first class in computer science, I was taught that an algorithm is simply a way of expressing formal rules given to a computer. Computers like rules. They follow them. Turns out that bureaucracy and legal systems like rules too. The big difference is that, in the world of computing, we call those who are trying to find ways to circumvent the rules “hackers” but in the world of government, this is simply the mundane work of politicking and lawyering.
Full self-driving [into a tree].
HOUSTON – Two men are dead after a Tesla traveling in Spring crashed into a tree and no one was driving the vehicle, officials say.
Remember that “Health and Freedom Conference” starring Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and other right wing crazies? Here’s a taste of Trump lawyer Lin Wood:
The crowd is going totally crazy over it! pic.twitter.com/hsRUKX473Z
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) April 18, 2021
In a bid to lower carbon consumption, France takes first step tpwards banning short-haul flights where rail alternatives exist.
Stoke-on-Trent neighbours plagued by 'phantom cabbage thrower'
(Thanks to Ralph and pharmaross)
Stoke-on-Trent neighbours plagued by 'phantom cabbage thrower'
(Thanks to Ralph and pharmaross)
(Thanks to Jim Kenaston, who says “I suspect this family will be in the news again someday.”)
Florida woman says she spotted a 'baby dinosaur' running through yard
(Thanks to pharmaross and John W, who says “Looks definitive to me.”)
(Thanks to Roberto)
When Tony Blair first became Labour leader, he saw mass membership as a way to drive the party rightwards – but in power it soon became clear that grassroots politics were incompatible with New Labour policies.
Driver arrested after car ends up on Las Vegas Strip pedestrian bridge
We assume this bridge goes from Las Vegas to Florida.
(Thanks to pharmaross)
Funny how we've moved from "weird to ask for money on the internet" to "Andrew Sullivan just made $12 billion on substack and gofundme is how we fund our medical system now."
I don't measure enough skulls to earn that much money - racism's popular it seems! - and fortunately I don't need any medical treatments, but thanks to all!