Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Skip's LiveJournal:

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Monday, December 7th, 2009
4:00 pm	I went home with a waitress, the way I always do, how was I to know.. Holy crap Tiger's up to 10. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
12:56 pm	Speaking Truth to Power or Sometimes Tenure is a Good Thing (because otherwise this guys academic career at Harvard would come to a quick end) From the WSJ, click for article. In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it. Likewise, nearly all agree that the legislation would do little or nothing to improve quality or change health-care's dysfunctional delivery system. Which just goes to show: Some people can understand economics even if they went to Harvard. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
3:19 pm	Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 9th, 2009
2:24 pm	WSJ offer props to the master. The man who predicted the great depression. Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today. (Comment on this)
Friday, October 30th, 2009
2:19 pm	Mankiw linked to this Our bottom line from this research is that a healthy scepticism is warranted when policymakers claim government-spending multipliers in excess of one. Our estimates suggest that the multiplier effect of defence spending falls more in the range of 0.6 to 0.8, and we find it unlikely that non-defence multipliers would be larger. Therefore, our conclusion is that total economic output increases less than one-for-one with increased government purchases. However, we do find evidence to support the view that tax cuts stimulate total output, with a one percentage point decrease in the average marginal tax rate leading to an increase of about 0.6% in the growth rate of real per capita GDP. As such, our preference in the design of fiscal stimulus packages would be for more tax cuts and less reliance on increased government spending. Very interesting, but not surprising. Except to Disney economists, who will continue to ignore the data. Put another way, money that the government takes and spends damages the economy by 20%-40% of the amount spent. Or another way.. for every 6-8 jobs the government 'creates or saves' it costs 10 jobs that were lost or not created in the rest of the economy. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
5:15 pm	Cash for Clunkers cost $24k per extra car sold (7 Comments |Comment on this)
12:50 pm	Mostly a self reminder Must see shows.. Since I won a free weekend pass. Friday Ween 9:00 pm Soco/WWOZ Stage Saturday New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars 4:45 pm Preservation Hall presented by Visa Signature (if we get there this early) Jane's Addiction 7:35 pm PlayStation/Billboard.com Stage George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic 8:15 pm Soco/WWOZ Stage KISS 9:00 pm Voodoo Stage Sunday The Pogues 2:15 pm PlayStation/Billboard.com Stage Squirrel Nut Zippers 4:15 pm Bingo! Parlor The Flaming Lips 5:45 pm PlayStation/Billboard.com Stage Might stay after for Meat Puppets or Lenny Kravitz.. or might not. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
1:25 pm	Mojo Nixon comes out of hiding He's playing only two shows Houston Fri Nov 6 and Austin Sat Nov 7. Amelia and I will be going, anyone else care to take advantage of this opportunity? (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
11:49 am	WoW Stuff ( 3.2.2 Patch Notes ) (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 14th, 2009
4:59 pm	Quote of the Day "Idealism is bad philosophy for the same reason that religion is bad science." ( Read more... ) (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
9:46 am	Fun Quotes Individual rights must be balanced against the power of the government to control human reproduction John Holdren - US Science Czar (49 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 31st, 2009
12:04 pm	Last Chance for Hyatt rooms I'm releasing the excess reservations tomorrow. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 21st, 2009
11:01 am	I have Farshad's DragonCon room block. I'll keep the rooms as long as possible in case anyone wakes up and realizes 'Holy Crap what am I doing missing DragonCon?!' As it gets closer I'll probably offer the remaining rooms up on the DC lj group. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
1:05 pm	Weekly jobless claims unexpectedly up at 558,000 Disney economists shocked! PK, Nobel laureate and renowned captain of the Mickey Mouse club advises more spending! Who could predict that with quadrupling government spending unemployment would keep increasing? Clearly the answer is to spend more. That will give employers the confidence they need to stop laying people off. This time it will surely work.. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
10:41 am	Stealth Feature : Horde and Alliance on PVP servers As we've already discussed, we’re in the process of developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their faction from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. To prepare for this new service, we've removed the restriction that prevents players from creating both Horde and Alliance characters on a PvP realm. For more information on our Faction Change service, please visit the following link. original post here for people who don't believe it.. like I didn't (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
10:33 am	Today's Patch Notes Wow Patch Notes Here Some fun stuffs. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
1:45 pm	Pith Found on Reason forums No matter how much of our freedom the government controls, it will always find a way to blame any problems on those few remaining areas it doesn't own. - Some dude named John (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
12:59 pm	Think there are no people in the world who would deserve to be put in an oven? Let me know if you still think so after reading this (49 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
11:50 am	The truth about Honduras Great fill in on WSJ. It's disturbing that they are trying to cover this up Basically the President acted illegally in violation of the Honduras Constitution in attempting to violate Constitutional term limits. The Congress and Supreme Court ordered the Army to arrest him. It's a very rare example of the rule of law being upheld in central America. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
2:37 pm	Guardians Clear Naxx Saturday Took a while but we got thru it in one session. Ppl rly need to work on their DPS though. (8 Comments |Comment on this)