Archive for October, 2009

Top Five Podcasts

Filed under Internet, Music

Here are my top podcasts that help make my daily commute more pleasant and enlightening:

EconTalk: Russ Roberts gets the brightest minds in economics to talk about ideas, facts, and theories in a way that’s accessible to both economics newbies and seasoned veterans.
Deeper Shades of House: Lars Behrenroth keeps me grooving to new deep house mixes [...]

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20 Years Ago…Pretty Hate Machine

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I failed to play nothing but Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine today. Why? Because twenty years ago Trent Reznor dropped this on the music world.
PHM wasn’t the beginning of industrial music, but it was the genre’s most important album. Reznor combined metal, electronic music, and goth with pop hooks that instantly made him [...]

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A Bear With Priorities

Filed under Wisconsin

This headline sounds like the start of a joke:
Bear walks into store, goes straight for beer cooler
I don’t blame him. It’s what you do in Wisconsin’s northwoods.

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Rush Limbaugh’s NFL Ownership Mistake

Bad news, conservative sports fans, but Rush Limbaugh won’t be a part-owner of the St. Louis Rams. If you’ve been following my tweets (and why aren’t you?) you know I saw this coming. Before you run off to boycott the NFL consider the possibility that Rush Limbaugh erred in his pursuit of the Rams. Yes, [...]

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Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom Win 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics

Filed under Economics

Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom won the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics. Williamson is a name you should’ve run across if you’ve taken intermediate microeconomics or industrial organization courses. His worked in “new institutional economics” stood on top of Nobel laureate Ronald Coase’s work on why firms exist in the first place. The Nobel Prize [...]

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The Bob Mould Music Hour

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Bob Mould will be playing at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Saturday. I’ll be there. If you won’t here’s what you’ll miss:

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Robert Stacey McCain Investigate Bill Sparkman Murder

Robert Stacey McCain traveled to Kentucky to investigate the death of Bill Sparkman. Unlike some on the Left who jumped to the conclusion that it stemmed from anti-government hatred, McCain actually talked to locals and has a different, less ideologically tinged theory. This is great reporting and sets a good example for the Rightwing blogosphere. [...]

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Smart Canadians

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They’re stuck with socialized health care and long waiting lines, but these Canadians have good taste in NFL football teams.

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