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Archive for December 6th, 2008

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Where the Money Is, Redux

Sully finds a graph:

Even during what conservative hawks insist on calling “America’s holiday from history,” the Clinton 90s, the country never stopped spending Cold-War levels of money on the military. Meanwhile, the US is now spending more than ever to prosecute relatively tiny wars whose merits are contestable at best. See that little ledge all [...]

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Quote of the Century

Being nice is one of the best ways of participating in the mysteries.

Tyler Cowen.