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Bonerama

One’s got to have a large dose of brass in one’s musical diet and most especially a good boner: so how about three? Check out Bonerama’s hot new album (The rest of the band are no slouches either). boneramabrassCraig KleinfunkJazzMark Mullinsnew orleanstrombone

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Looking forward to another cracking read by Taleb bitch-slapping the IYIs No.Education was, at some point great, fast becoming rent-seeking for a group of parasites IYIs who indoctrinate our youths. pic.twitter.com/IklI1CYsp0 — NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) September 23, 2017 complexityintellectual yet idiotNassim Nicholas Talebprobabilityrent-seekingskin in the game

The Fats Domino Story

As one might expect there will be a plethora of shallow obituaries and a flurry of mediocre books but the best sources and likely to remain so are Rick Coleman’s Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll and Joseph Lauro’s The Big Beat: The Story of Fats Domino and His Band (available on…

Walker Percy Wednesday 156

Let us take an example in which the recovery of being is ambiguous, where it may under the same circumstances contain both authentic and unauthentic components. An American couple, we will say, drives down into Mexico. They see the usual sights and have a fair time of it. Yet they are never without the sense…

Mises, The Movie

It will be interesting to see if this project actually gets off the ground. To my mind it should be either a fully-fledged theatrical story or a standard documentary — I find documentaries with interspersed reconstructed scenes tiresome and unconvincing. Austrian EconomicsCarl MengerEconomicsFriedrich HayekLiberalismLibertarianismLudwig von Mises