In response to Earthenvesselmz reply to my recent discussion of minimum wage laws:

Minimum Wage1 - Definately not! Which freedom would be limited? Bob and Jack FREELY agree to a contract. Neither is required to do so. Having once made the agreement, both parties are legally required to follow through, but Bob and Jack have already surrended ( Read more... )

For those who have every been tormented by the evils of playing guessing games with balancing chemical equations, I have news for you. There is a way to solve them that involves real math, not adding magic/houdini numbers until both sides are balanced. The first and simplist way involves only simple algebra. For this reason I am surprised and ( Read more... )

Last week in Macroeconomics, we were covering minimum wage laws and are instructor claimed that it wasn't certain whether they hurt the economy/poor people or not. He said that on one side, there is the argument that the articifial increase in cost decreases incentive to hire people. On the other side, he said others argue that the increase wages ( Read more... )

The Distant Collegian has posted a hilarious and telling examination of a news article dealing with the Intelligent Design Policy of a Dover School here.

I particularly "like" the article section here:

"A defense attorney argued that it could have been the result of a fundamentalist Bible club her daughter had joined at school. But Smith told a ( Read more... )

Earthevenvesslemz replied to my response hereThe Distant Collegian posted an excellent addition to my orignal argument there as well ( Read more... )

Earthenvesselmz commented on my last post hereAlthough his comment is interesting and appears to attempt to contradict the conclusion I reached, it does not deal with the arguments I provided in support of my conclusion, and I believe it also demonstrates a misunderstanding of my conclusion itself ( Read more... )

Dr. Shawn Knabb, my Macroeconomics instructor, remarked yesterday that most economists agree on the basic principles and models of economics, and therefore almost any macroeconomics class (and I suspect microeconomics class) will cover virtually the same material regardless of who teaches them. What economists disagree on is how well markets (and ( Read more... )

On the 3rd, Cameron and I moved to Bellingham and have been living up here since. It took until a couple days ago to finally get the internet set up, so I have been mostly reading and playing games. Since we moved, I have read ( Read more... )

Ratiocination is the excellent blog of Andrew Bailey, a philosophy student at Biola University. Many of his posts deal with topics related to philosophy, and some can even be pretty complex, but Andrew manages to keep the language clear enough that I can follow most of what he says. :)http

Recently, as part of a Western "cultural" thing, I received a copy of the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon. The book is interestingly told in the 1st person by the primary character in the story who is autistic, which leads to many interesting tangents and illustrates how autistic people think. In this fuction, it ( Read more... )