Who is Servan?

Posted on December 2, 2009 by bunty
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    A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas; it is at the stable point of reason that he secures the end of the chain; this link is all the stronger in that we do not know what it is made of and we believe it to be our own work

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http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WalkingA…

Posted on December 1, 2009 by bunty
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    Contrary to reports that homeowners are increasingly "walking away" from their mortgages, most homeowners continue to make their payments even when they are significantly underwater. This article suggests that most homeowners do not strategically default as a result of two emotional forces: 1) the desire to avoid the shame and guilt of foreclosure; and 2) exaggerated anxiety over foreclosure's perceived consequences.
    Moreover, these emotional constraints are actively cultivated by the government and other social control agents in order to induce homeowners to ignore market and legal norms under which
    strategic default might not only be a viable option, but also the wisest financial decision. Unlike lenders, individual homeowners have thus generally not acted to minimize their losses and have born a disproportionate share of the burden from the housing
    collapse.

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http://personal.lse.ac.uk/SEAR/pdfs/sear_marlowe.pdf

Posted on November 16, 2009 by bunty
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From: the Against Tabloid Academicism Dept:

Yet more evidence that the best thing to do upon meeting with an evolutionary 'psychologist' is to beat then soundly with a stout stick before they manage to spout some inane nonsense based on their WEIRD petty perennial personal prejudices, and un-analysed tendencies towards self congratulatory, self important, confirmatory biases.

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Moriarty “Jimmy” acoustique

Posted on November 16, 2009 by bunty
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Coming to an imaginary cinema near you, not so soon!

Posted on November 14, 2009 by bunty
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Stills from my upcoming movie* Cat Bites Dog – Starring: Miula, Pipkin, and Flambeaux.

A mysterious Egyptian (you can tell by the sideways head).

Monarch of the Glen she surveys.

A watcher, hidden in hills above.

An ambush.

I haz a BALL!!! (and there is a twist in the tail).

The inevitable chase scene.

The dramatic discovery of a superpower: if you flap your front legs hard enough, YOU CAN FLY!

Rapid Exit, Stage Left.

* May not actually exist.

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The Green Howards: Home

Posted on November 12, 2009 by bunty
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Shell exploding on the Somme, 1916

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Posted on November 9, 2009 by bunty
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soviet airwomen in WW2 “Night witches”

Posted on November 8, 2009 by bunty
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Better than Biggles: Ночные ведьмы

see also: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8329676.stm [news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8329676.stm]

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Vic Chesnutt – Cobbham Blues

Posted on November 7, 2009 by bunty
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