Florida’s Population Boom Fizzles as High Costs Drive Away Middle Class Orlando and other Florida cities are either losing domestic migrants or gaining them more slowly, threatening the state’s economic model.

florida's real problem is that the young and the middle class are going elsewhere. This is a state that is on the economic edge. www.wsj.com/economy/flor...

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Alan Dershowitz: I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party turned 18

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There is a new D.C. newspaper - the Star - that is starting up. I think it is important to spread the word! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...

Have to figure in cost of living and peripherals. i imagine the expense account takes care of all his restaurant bills, probs there is a housing allowance for his apartment, and so on. Salary here is almost certainly reduced for tax reasons. Grifters know how to do these things.

Similarly, humans never really understand minion culture. To humans, they are just a buncha minions

It passes in a moment. And the film was fairly liberal, in its moment, for portraying Sam as a friend and artist. But the "boy" was very telling signifier, man.

One of the great things about woknesss is that it brings with it a sensitivity, creates an expanded feeling for intersignes. I watched Casablanca last night with my boy, his first time. I was glad he liked it! But I also noticed how the Ingrid Bergman character casually calls Sam "boy".

This onLy works with Trump bc bribing him this way looks legit but Patel has no quo for the quid pro In fact, this might irritate Trump - having a subodinate compete with him in the bribe race

Seems appropriate. She is in a long paleo-conservative tradition. I always like it that 3/4 of the newspapers in the Us endorsed Langdon in 1936. I'd expect same old crap from the economist as from the hearst newspapers.

I like to think of them, those thousands of scions of upper class households, products all of them of years of free lunches, nodding to this crackerbarrel truism. One of the great principles of education is to blind yourself to the self-evident.

" You may have heard the old saying, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”. Grammar aside, there is much truth to this adage. To get something we like, we usually have to give up something else that we also like."

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I am culling this from page 2 of Greg Mankiw’s popular Essentials of Economics – used by hundreds of Econ 101 classes, tucked under the arms of thousands of students, who paid a hefty price for it:

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It is said that the last of the “sombre dynastie” of Sansons to be the chief executioner in Paris, Henri-Clement, was a well known gambler and epicure, a great favorer of masked balls and card games. Now, in the 1840s, the chief executioner kept that great, terrible machine, the guillotine,

Exactly. This actually encourages the worst candidates - by overtly saying their behavior and politics doesn't matter. Incidentally this is how Harris campaigning with Cheney lost. Lose less be better. That's why we have democracy.

Back in 2007, Israel, with Bush’s blessing, was doing its usual razrez in Lebanon (as Alex in Clockwork Orange might put it), I wrote a bit about that affair in the long perspective of Israel’s’ malign policy of perpetual war.

This is still relevant today. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/04/weve...

BacK in the 00s, the idea that a market is a perfect processor of information was a big economics fad. Now information is called vibes and the cool rightwing economists casually dismiss it with contempt. Economics is not a science it is theology for the plates.

Its a meme market, and we should be making increasing the capital gains tax like mad to pay for the probable future crash. But we aren't as we shoot past a debt to GDP ratio that will make the 09 solution impossible

I take up a quote circulating then, when the president of Iran quoted Khomenei about destroyiing Israel. And reference a curious fact:
"Now, if we are truly to take the quote as a military threat against Israel, then surely it was a military threat when Khomeini uttered it too.

American foreign policy is endlessly stupid, and even commenting about it makes one feel endlessly stupid. Nevertheless, I persevere. Call me stupid. In that spirit I wrote this long ago, back in 2007, when the Cheneyits wanted war with Iran.

I need a sadness/anger emoji to respond.

`White Meccas’ surged in population in the 1990s By JONATHAN TILOVE May 9, 2001 c.2001 Newhouse News Service FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. _ The scene at Sharon Springs Park is a timeless American idyll. The sky is blue without end. A gentle evening breeze…

There was a march IN 1987 to Forsyth County in Georgia, infamous for having driven black people out of it in the early 1900s, and still racist AF in 87 and today. This is from 2000: jonathantilove.com/white-meccas/

I like how the tech bubble in 2000 hit when US debt was 33 percent of GDP, and the crash of 2008-9 when debt was 83 per, and now it is 123 per, and we think we can go to the well forever. Lets see how that works out. The future is yuan.

The Dems have a simple message: we should neither kill for nor die for totalitarian Saudi Arabia and war drunk Israel. And that is actually a popular message. Except, of course, among rich Dem donors.

You mean the entire totalitarian Gulf states ruling class wants Israel to flatten Iran?. Gee, who woulda guessed that a class that has invested trillions in the West would want that? But they do - the inheritors of the 9/11 kingdom of Saud to UAE abettors of genocide in Sudan. Great peope!

Thank you! I thought it was just me!

Come on! Pterodactyl rules! Plus it is still, in modified form, still here in the Robin Redbreast, Bald Eagle, and Great Horned Grebe. Be American - vote Pterodactyl. Plus - very fine spelling bee and cross word puzzle word, only one starting with PT. I'm dying on this hill!

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and still wish he had not gone to see My American Cousin, much as I respect the fact that he needed a break from stress. And so the events of Apri 14 1865 unfolded in a nightmare aft er the nightmare - the horror movie rule is that the monster always comes back from the dead once.

I have been to Dealy Plaza and paid homage to Smiling Jack. Hell, when I was a 5 year old I saw it on tv, the black and white tv downstairs, in York, Pennsylvania. I’ve not been to the Ford’s theatre. I had a crush on Abe Lincoln when I was a schoolboy,