http://grdurand.com/blogger/ Refudiating liberalism in all its forms. en-us 5 Feb 2012 17:34:51 GMT 5 Feb 2012 17:34:51 GMT http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Zeta Woof's BlogWare grdurand@yahoo.com (Gordon R. Durand) grdurand@yahoo.com (Gordon R. Durand) http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/02/forgotten-past.html Drudge links to a new painting entitled The Forgotten Man, by Utah artist Jon McNaughton. Follow the link and mouse over the picture to learn a little about American economic history. 5 Feb 2012 17:34:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/02/forgotten-past.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/shame-on-earl.html Walking around Gold Hill lately we've seen a lot of vacant houses. It wasn't that way three years ago. Back then it seemed like everyone was remodeling, painting, landscaping. Boom times. Tiny little houses sold for two hundred thousand. Some people who had bought their houses twenty years ago for thirty thousand put them up for sale. They didn't really want to move, but for that kind of money, why not? Then times got tough. More people were selling but nobody was buying. Gradually the... 30 Jan 2012 16:03:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/shame-on-earl.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/history-of-dieting.html Over at Spiked, part of the news bath that rarely gets mentioned, Rob Lyons reviews Calories and Corsets by Louise Foxcroft. "Foxcroft starts right back with the ancient Greeks, who knew that those who are uncommonly fat... die more quickly than the lean, even if they also recognised that in all maladies, those who are fat about the belly do best; it is bad to be thin and wasted there. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, recognised through observation that people's constitutions were... 28 Jan 2012 04:55:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/history-of-dieting.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/posted-w-o-comment.html 26 Jan 2012 05:15:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/posted-w-o-comment.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/verdict-of-historians.html "How do historians rank presidents who achieve prosperity and security for Americans? Let's pose the question this way: What if we had a president who, in his first two years as president, cut federal spending in half; produced budget surpluses in both years; cut tax rates, and slashed unemployment from 12 to 2%? Where should historians rank such a man? "Dead last. 26 Jan 2012 05:10:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/verdict-of-historians.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/cant-happen-here.html The domain name associated with the website grdurand.com has been seized pursuant to an order issued by an U.S. District Court. A federal grand jury has indicted one individual allegedly involved in the operation of grdurand.com and charged it with the following federal crimes: Conspiracy to Commit Snark (18 U.S.C. 1962(d)), Conspiracy to Commit Sophmoric Humor (18 U.S.C. 2, 2319), and Criminal Copywriting (17 U.S.C. 506).Just remember, though. The fat guy is not evil because he's fat. Nor... 25 Jan 2012 06:43:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/cant-happen-here.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/do-i-have-to-draw-you-picture.html Maybe you thought you'd like to retire some day. Notice the trend. People who were 75 in 1970 started their working lives during World War I. Those who were 75 in 1985 started during the Great Depression. And those currently 75 years old started during the Eisenhower years. Three different attitudes toward work, perhaps? Well, there's always Food Stamps. Bread and circuses, with entertainment in the form of those ubiquitous glowing rectangles. Have you wondered why the crime rate isn't... 22 Jan 2012 19:43:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/do-i-have-to-draw-you-picture.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/editing-shakespeare.html "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form, and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension how like a God! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"Well, that's how I would punctuate it if I were Shakespeare's editor. This is how it's usually punctuated: "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how... 16 Jan 2012 06:37:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/editing-shakespeare.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/jaunty-little-otter.html In the Port of Siuslaw; today about 2:00. I drove seven hours to get there and back. With a little luck, I'll drive that every week. 13 Jan 2012 04:05:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/jaunty-little-otter.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/two-quick-notes.html Europe Weird and New in The Wall Street Journal. "European financial markets have gotten very strange. Greece's one-year government bond yield hit 376% yesterday, while Germany, Switzerland and the U.K. sold short-term debt this week at yields below 0%. That means investors are effectively paying the latter governments for the privilege of lending to them. At this point, flying saucers over the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum in Rome wouldn't surprise anyone. "First Big Test Yet to Come in The... 12 Jan 2012 06:07:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/two-quick-notes.html