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According to Yahoo news, Emperor Kennedy apparently as a brain. I was quite surprised by this. Also, he has a brain tumor.

Economists are.

Economists can study pirates though. Peter T. Leson from George Mason University has published two papers and is working on a third legitimately studying pirates from an Austrian Economists perspective. (Actually read this link on Austrian Economists if you want a more concise explanation.)

An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization (which I haven’t had a chance to read yet)

Pirational Choice: The Economics of Infamous Pirate Practices. (which I am in the process of reading and which is very good)

and the work in progress:
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, History’s Most Notorious Criminals - Abstract (this abstract makes this paper look to be the best of the three…and it’s short for your poor attention spans)

So I’m recently single again. I knew it would happen as it was just a matter of time. It’s not so much that I miss her, it’s more of the fact that being single just plain sucks, even if the opposite is spending time with someone with which there is no real future. So seeing as how I’m probably the only consistent single (as in un-married) reader of this ‘ere blog, I thought I’d educate ya on why being single sucks donkey dick on horseback.

1. Cooking for one person is so pointless you might as well get a pizza. Or Wendy’s. It’s actually cheaper.
2. Hanging out with a couple means you are the third wheel.
3. No one goes to a restaurant to eat by themselves.

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Quite frequently when using Google Reader I read articles without bothering to waste time reading things like the site an article came from. Generally this doesn’t cause any harm. Generally (#2) I can make out which site an article is from simply from content.

This was not one of those articles. I read (and when I say read in the context of RSS I mean don’t mean in the reading-a-George-R-R-Martin-book type of read so much as the glancing-through-news-stories type of read) Sage’s post and just assumed it was from Mental Floss where it would have totally fit in.

I was then about to copy the URL to post a link on Abodes to the article when I realized that was totally unnecessary.

Then I laughed.

Fin.

Sloth says I have expensive taste. I disagree since my idea of expensive taste includes $1300 bottles of champagne and ugly $26,000 purses. Well, it’s time for me to change my ways. A recent study found that in order to maximize my drinking pleasure, I need to develop expensive taste in wine. Or not. I’ll stick with Yellow Tail and Mon Ami wines, thxbai.

Now what this study does mean is that someone could probably bottle cat pee and market it as an expensive new wine. You know that stupid rich people would flock to buy it.

Ever since I was a wee lass, I’ve had more guy friends than girl friends. Today, I’d like to thank each and every one of those guys for giving me a new excuse for being a lush.

(Editor’s note: I think there is a term for a girl that has a lot of “guy friends” ever since she was a little girl.)