We have been accused of making economics cool. But compared to this Def Poetry Jam performance by Tommy Bottoms, we are bush league. The piece is called “Basic Economics,” and to my mind it is as well-written as it is well-performed. If I were a high-school economics teacher, I’d use it in my class (although truthfully it’s more of an R-rated bit than PG-13). I’d also show it to crack-selling wannabes and people who spend too much time playing the lottery. While this video that Levitt blogged earlier may have been the funniest economics video ever, I’m nominating “Basic Economics” as the all-around greatest.
(Hat tip: Ted King)
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Contrary to the critics I thoroughly enjoyed a good shot of reality to replace our mundane controlled media opinions which have the anti depressant vendors selling more products than they ever hoped to produce. I would love to see a part deux take a shot at the current health scare regime.
The quantity of research available could keep us laughing at ourselves for decades.
You touched lightly on the smoking taxes producing sales of bootleg cigarettes and the funds being used to buy arms to use against American Soldiers. Few realize the false numbers behind the international efforts of the World Health Organization in promotions of fear to elicit political embarrassment. Rule by fear I discovered recently at an anti smokers Blog will no doubt have an effect unfortunately that effect will not include reductions in smoking and they knew it all along. Smoking bans are financed by governments who wish to fund healthcare on the smokers backs. To rub salt in the wound If you check despite what many of us believe. There are the same number of smokers today as there were in 1950 the number has not changed however the population increase has reduced smoker prevalence by more than half. What the sio called Health care authorities can not explain with a stable number of smokers we should have a stable effect. Increases in population would see immediate reductions in prevalence of disease the smoking related diseases actually tripled. Are they saying all the donations to medical charities were a waste as they now admit triple the disease rate as a failure ot are the numbers simply misrepresented.
If you go on to the largest Political squabble of late the Global warming sales force actually picked the worst of all elements to sell the reincarnation of the ultraviolet catastrophe dismembered by Einstein himself in 1905.
The energy radiation frequency of a stable black body is one in ten thousand years. The disjoining into a gaseous state would reduce the risk even more. If the carbon gasses were to have any more than a moderating effect they would have to substantially compete with the higher frequency radiation of energy into the cosmos by the earth itself. Consider the mass of the earth and the geographic size of the largest radiators at the poles. Compared to the atomic reflection of disjointed molecules. If the earth warms the evaporation rate rises increasing rain and snow at the poles. Need I go on. The other planets are also heating up did man have anything to do with that?
If you consider the captain of the WHO Hockey team and his announcement today setting a carbon price at 35.00 per ton. Annual emissions are now high enough to bankrupt every industrialized country on the planet. Who gets to pay for the emissions from mother nature which are currently 1000 times higher?
As you can see the Health scare community can be a lot of fun. In a more somber note the best route to reducing human mortality would be to take the monolith industrial charity foundations and make them use over 7 trillion dollars in the USA alone and spend those funds on real charity. Shutting down the UN would save more lives than were lost in two great wars. Finally We have fought for over 100 years over oil. If we took the sand which covers most of that oil, and made silicone solar collection panels we would never have to burn oil again. There is over 10 million times the energy we need bombarding the planet every day we knew that 100 years ago. Why no one is taking advantage is the real freakonomic of scientific progress.
How much is a bucket of sand worth where you live?
Contrary to the critics I thoroughly enjoyed a good shot of reality to replace our mundane controlled media opinions which have the anti depressant vendors selling more products than they ever hoped to produce. I would love to see a part deux take a shot at the current health scare regime.
The quantity of research available could keep us laughing at ourselves for decades.
You touched lightly on the smoking taxes producing sales of bootleg cigarettes and the funds being used to buy arms to use against American Soldiers. Few realize the false numbers behind the international efforts of the World Health Organization in promotions of fear to elicit political embarrassment. Rule by fear I discovered recently at an anti smokers Blog will no doubt have an effect unfortunately that effect will not include reductions in smoking and they knew it all along. Smoking bans are financed by governments who wish to fund healthcare on the smokers backs. To rub salt in the wound If you check despite what many of us believe. There are the same number of smokers today as there were in 1950 the number has not changed however the population increase has reduced smoker prevalence by more than half. What the sio called Health care authorities can not explain with a stable number of smokers we should have a stable effect. Increases in population would see immediate reductions in prevalence of disease the smoking related diseases actually tripled. Are they saying all the donations to medical charities were a waste as they now admit triple the disease rate as a failure ot are the numbers simply misrepresented.
If you go on to the largest Political squabble of late the Global warming sales force actually picked the worst of all elements to sell the reincarnation of the ultraviolet catastrophe dismembered by Einstein himself in 1905.
The energy radiation frequency of a stable black body is one in ten thousand years. The disjoining into a gaseous state would reduce the risk even more. If the carbon gasses were to have any more than a moderating effect they would have to substantially compete with the higher frequency radiation of energy into the cosmos by the earth itself. Consider the mass of the earth and the geographic size of the largest radiators at the poles. Compared to the atomic reflection of disjointed molecules. If the earth warms the evaporation rate rises increasing rain and snow at the poles. Need I go on. The other planets are also heating up did man have anything to do with that?
If you consider the captain of the WHO Hockey team and his announcement today setting a carbon price at 35.00 per ton. Annual emissions are now high enough to bankrupt every industrialized country on the planet. Who gets to pay for the emissions from mother nature which are currently 1000 times higher?
As you can see the Health scare community can be a lot of fun. In a more somber note the best route to reducing human mortality would be to take the monolith industrial charity foundations and make them use over 7 trillion dollars in the USA alone and spend those funds on real charity. Shutting down the UN would save more lives than were lost in two great wars. Finally We have fought for over 100 years over oil. If we took the sand which covers most of that oil, and made silicone solar collection panels we would never have to burn oil again. There is over 10 million times the energy we need bombarding the planet every day we knew that 100 years ago. Why no one is taking advantage is the real freakonomic of scientific progress.
How much is a bucket of sand worth where you live?
How much is a bucket of sand worth where you live?
$20.95 at my local hardware store. But if you go late at night with your own bag, it’s free.
How much is a bucket of sand worth where you live?
$20.95 at my local hardware store. But if you go late at night with your own bag, it’s free.
This poet is introduced by Mos Def, who has a song called “Mathematics” that has some similar counting parts.
Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/mos+def/mathematics_20096166.html
Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycJ5m5Mt9JE
This poet is introduced by Mos Def, who has a song called “Mathematics” that has some similar counting parts.
Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/mos+def/mathematics_20096166.html
Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycJ5m5Mt9JE
Word.
Word.