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Tax Rates

Since it is tax season, it is instructive to look at historical tax rates in the US. DarwinCatholic made a quick and dirty inflation-adjustment to the base tax tables from 1955 and compares them to 2010. There is clearly a lot more to be said on this subject, the details

G. A. Henty

G. A. Henty, author of numerous historic fiction tales for young boys, is one of my favorite authors. You can find free and not-free versions of his books in many places. From Wikipedia: His children's novels typically revolved around a boy or young man living in troubled times.

Movie based on the Long Walk

I reviewed the Long Walk two years ago, the fanciful but not entirely fabricated tale of Polish soldiers who walked to India from Sibera. Now a movie is being made based on this tale.

The King's Speech

The Magistra and I saw The King's Speech this weekend. It was a really amazing film. After we saw the movie, we looked up some of King George VI's speeches. Colin Firth accurately imitated the King's speech and mannerisms, as you can hear and

The Flagstaff Dialect

Courtesy of Peter Sean Bradley comes this map of American English dialects. I learned from this map that Flagstaff has a distinctive dialect. A link was provided to an interview with R. Carlos Nakai as an example. I had never heard him speak, so I expected a Navajo accent, but

A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything

Interesting Times

John Reilly manages to keep some perspective [I'm looking at you Scheske] on the recent quantitative easing announced by the Federal Reserve: Far more interesting in recent weeks is the expedition of President Obama to Ind and the Isles of Serendip; accompanied, it is said, by a locust