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• Django Reverse-Engineer from Existing Legacy Tables
  I've been playing a bit with Django, a Python-based web framework. One thing that people starting in Django seem to miss out on is the standard "how to I make model classes from my existing database tables"? That's not because you can't do th...
• Alle Menschen werden Bruder, but only if they pay up?
  Funniest computer glitch in some years.Read more...Tags : history
• "An Open Letter to my Friends on the Left"
  I wanted to write such a thing, but Steven Horwitz beat me to it.Tags : bailout politics
• Rage Against the Bailout
  "The Bailout" came and went, the market dipped sharply the same day, and went back up the next day as "the market" did what it always does: balances out the interests of the many, impartially. Something governments will never be abl...
• Ossetian Separatism: whose business is it?
  Quoted without comment from Sheldon Richman's blog: When it comes to separatist movements, the American and Russian governments have no principles whatever. They take whatever side advances their political interests at the moment. When ethnic Albanians...

• Re: Rage Against the Bailout
  P.S. If you live in the US, you may wish to sign the "no'' petition at http://nowallstreetb...
• Re: "An Open Letter to my Friends on the Left"
  Hey Lak, thanks for following up. Note that the piece you're citing isn't a direct response to Horwitz, and doesn't really answer his arguments (which are pretty long :-)). Horwitz' article isn't so much about assigning blame (he blames both of the blo...
• Re: "An Open Letter to my Friends on the Left"
  In the interest of fairness, the rejoinder to Steve Horwitz' argument that Freddie, Fannie and CRA i.e. government regulations were to blame: http://yglesias.thin...