Did you read Paul Krugman’s latest column in the New York Times?

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If the establishment had its way, there would only be one Republican left in this race – and the National Convention would just be a massive rally for Mitt Romney.

There would be no talk about individual liberty.  No mention of trillion-dollar deficits, real spending cuts, and the out-of-control Federal Reserve.

And there would be no questioning the cost of utopian nation-building schemes or policing the world.

But thanks to your hard work and dedication to the cause of liberty, the establishment isn’t getting its way.

Not this time.

I’m planning to take my campaign to Restore America NOW all the way to Tampa, Florida, for the Republican National Convention.

But to do so, my campaign must have the funds to continue picking up delegates all across the country.

So can I count on you to help me fight all the way to the National Convention bypledging to make a generous contribution to my campaign’s Money Bomb on April 15?

So far, my campaign’s delegate strategy has paid off.

Dedicated supporters of mine have been turning out at their local caucuses and conventions to run as delegates to their Congressional District or State Conventions – where National Delegates will be elected.

It’s these delegates who will choose the Republican nominee at the National Convention in August.

That’s why it’s absolutely crucial my campaign has the funds to continue organizing and winning delegates in many states around the country.

And there are also important primaries in Texas and California coming up where hundreds of delegates will be up for grabs.

That’s why I’m counting on you to pledge to contribute to my campaign’s Money Bomb on April 15.

You and I have fought tooth and nail against the establishment for nearly an entire year now.

And the most important battles are happening right now.

So please, help me take my campaign to Restore America NOW to the Republican National Convention by pledging to make a generous contribution to my upcoming April 15 Money Bomb.

Let’s take our fight all the way to Tampa.

For Liberty,

Ron Paul

P.S. My campaign is holding a Money Bomb on April 15.

With the Republican National Convention fast approaching, my campaign must have the funds to continue winning delegates in many states all over the country.

So please pledge to contribute to my Money Bomb on April 15 to help me take our fight all the way to Tampa!

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Ron Paul would be proud.

One of your editors flew out of SFO on Thursday and had a chance to visit the Yoga room.  How was the experience, you ask? Well, the pictures speak for themselves.  Please note that the lights for the $15,000-$20,000 room went on and off at random intervals:

The light shows the way

Jackpot

Rules are meant to be respected...

...so I respect

$15,000-$20,000 at work

And I head for the exit

P.S.:  No one bothered me as I was taking the pictures inside and outside of the room, even though I was next to the security checkpoints, looked young and somewhat middle-easternish, and only had a backpack on me.  AMERICA!

P.P.S.: The plane from SFO to LAX was over 20 minutes late thanks to Obama Jam.

P.P.P.S.: No Yogic Flying, sadly.

When I asked my dad about the comments Chavez gave that he will probably begin to lose his hair as a result of the chemotherapy, my dad replied, “He’ll just shave it off.”

I am putting this out there so it will be time stamped.  If this is ever proven true, I am expecting my dad to get a column in the New York Times adjacent to Paul Krugman’s musings.

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UPDATE:

Thanksgiving Dinner conversation:

Me:  ”So, do you still think Chavez’s cancer is fake?”

Him: …

Me: …

Him: No.

Case closed.

Case in point: Almost 80% of NFL players near bankruptcy two years after they retire.

Breitbart’s not done yet.  He is having so much fun he now wants to take down the “institutional left,” and he believes this will happen “within the next three weeks”:

He might be referring to his appearance on former Congressman (and radio personality!) Ernest Istook’s Harvard Institute of Politics study group, “Propaganda in American Politics.”  Breitbart is scheduled to be a guest speaker next week, which falls within the deadline he gave on a Fox News show that attracts more viewers at 3AM than CNN at 8PM.

This is a must-not-miss event.  What better way to take down the institutional left than to corrupt influence the minds of young Harvard intellectuals who will lead the institutions?  It worked for Peggy Noonan.

(EDIT:  Didn’t happen.  Some anti-global warming guy came instead.  The institutional left survives.)

[Media Matters via Gawker]

Class Day: CNN’s  Christiane Amanpour.   (General feeling in our circles:  “Several seniors expressed ambivalence about the choice—a sentiment that may stem from a lack of recognition of Amanpour’s name among some individuals.”  Let’s hope her speech is a good one.)

The title of the lecture is “From Ayn Rand to Ken Feinberg — How Quickly the Paradigm Shifts.  What Should Be the Rationale for Government Participation in the Market?”  We guess he will talk about how different New York would be if he could take down Wall Street and whatnot.  That and/or prostitutes.  [Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard] [Office of the Arts at Harvard]

(Click to enlarge.  Excuse  me for the quality of the picture, as I was running the L4D2 demo from my college laptop.)

The background: Valve recently released the Left 4 Dead 2 demo.  Although the only game play mode officially offered is the standard survival bout, it took only about a week for members of the online community to figure out how to modify the files to allow people to play as the infected (zombies).   This semi-versus mode is not perfect, however, and as a result every time a player switches between human and infected the system creates an extra survivor clone.  This process can be repeated over a dozen times.   Since there are only four character models for the survivors, continuous switching ensures that there are multiple copies of the same character.   Yes, it’s awesome.  The only downside is that the game still caps the total number of human players at four, which means that most of the survivor characters will be AI.

The story behind the picture: Three other players and I decided to spawn the maximum number of survivors using the mod/glitch technique so that we could fight them as infected in expert difficulty.  There is a point in the second level of the Parish campaign where all the survivors must enter a trailer, close the door, and open another door that leads to a tower with an alarm that must be switched off.  Sometimes the AI was unresponsive and would just stay stuck inside the trailer (they would also not stop repeating the same lines).  The only way to kill them was to enter the trailer.  I took this picture late in the game when only a few survivors were still alive.  It shows multiple dead “Ellis” models one after another, partly covered by one of the remaining “Nick” models.  We won the game shortly after.

For me this discussion went by the wayside until just recently, when Professor Jeffrey Frieden lectured about the “unholy/impossible trinity” in international economics (formally derived from the Mundell-Fleming model).  Basically, a country can at any time only choose two of three goals:  1) a fixed or pegged exchange rate, 2) an independent monetary policy, and 3) free capital mobility. Given a world where there is free capital mobility or capital controls can be avoided, countries will have to choose between 1 and 2.  Although this is a simplistic way of looking at the model, one could argue that the US, which lets its currency float, has chosen 2.  More information about this here and here.

What  does this mean?  Probably nothing.  Maybe the person in charge of achievements  had studied economics and was just having fun with the idea.  Or maybe “impossible trinity” is one of those blanket terms that can refer to many things that come in 3′s, not just economics.  Heck, I could write the religious hypothesis after this.  But that should not stop the mass speculation!  If you can only have 2 out of 3 characters, what are the GTA-specific reasons why you can’t have the 3rd?  Is Niko Bellic representative of fixed exchange rates or free capital mobility?

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Ok, it was probably just a broad term or a reference to religion.  Extending economic models and hypotheses to try to interpret video game lore will just lead to a cluster****.

My instinctual reaction was to ask:  Hey, is Azarenka some newly formed nation-state in the WTO? Are other countries praising its commitment to lower tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade at the Doha Round?

Well, the name actually refers to Belorussian tennis player Victoria Azarenka.  The Doha debut is…a tennis match.  Oy, this needs to be tagged under both “n00bs” and “win.”