Sunday, October 05, 2008

Mercer Island Meetup on Fri Oct 10

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It’s time for us to meet face-to-face.  Anyone who reads this blog is welcome to meet me at the Tully’s on the north end of Mercer Island on...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Reichert said no to the bail-out

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Mercer Island’s congressman, Dave Reichert, voted against the $700B bail-out of the financial industry.  A bunch of my friends are getting ...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

The Battles of Tim Eyman

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Although I first heard about this documentary film back in February, when the director Paul Fraser came to a Global Warming lecture at the ...

Konga at Trabant Coffee

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Mike at Trabant Coffee and Chai saw that I was looking for more Ethiopia Yergcheffe Konga coffee (it’s sooo good!), and let me know that a...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Robert Shiller and the Subprime Solution

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With an endorsement from Nassim Taleb on the cover of his new book , and a mention in an excellent Econtalk podcast last week, I just had...

Taleb thoughts on the financial crisis

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I already told you that The Black Swan is among the best idea books I have ever read, and I find it even more interesting when I look at th...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Comparing teacher experience between Mercer Island and Bellevue

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Good teachers deserve to be paid a lot more than they are, and if it were up to me there’d be a huge bonus pool, with big fat raises for som...
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