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Tweets posted during the week of February 22, 2009.

• It took much too long before I realized this headine was about hockey, “Ducks trade Chris Kunitz for Penguins’ Ryan Whitney.”
• I’m inclined to listen when a politician starts talking about zombies.
• Government can only create money. The rest of us have to create wealth. The former is easy and every time it’s done the latter gets harder.
• Reading Bloomberg.com is like asking a carny if their rides are safe. You know what they’re gonna say before you even ask the question.
• When an animal behaves in a terribly harmful way, we destroy the animal. We should adopt that strategy in regards to government.

Tweets posted during the week of February 15, 2009.

• Copywriting works. Nothing so suffocates the itch to see a movie than the words “a post 9/11 investigation into the American psyche.”
• Regarding my previous tweet. I meant lose not loose. Must be loosing my mind. Oops!
• Every day in the U.S. 305 people experience a one in a million chance event. Didn’t loose my keys at any point in time today – who’s next?
• It’s clear who you are. All we’re doing now is discussing price. Oy! (http://tinyurl.com/cbetqg)
• Wealth creation has always been in spite of top down, centrally directed economic policy, never because of it. I can think of no exceptions.
• Quite sad to hear that Louie Bellson died today. (http://louiebellson.info/news.html)
• For Sale: Weight loss potion that guarantees you will loose or not gain 20 lbs. by tomorrow morning. This sounds stupid because it is.
• President Obama’s blue-chip campaign theme lives. In much less than 100 days it is clear that this is still a time for change.

Tweets posted during the week of February 08, 2009.

• Politics, in engineer speak, is a system designed within “narrow operating conditions.” To expect anything but homogenized goo is silly.
• If forced to choose between God and the Devil, I choose Government; not that I believe in any of them.
• I wonder if any of the presidents advisors have the gravitas to say, “Mr. President, first the economy gets better & then jobs are created.”
• Upon hearing the word ocelot, I began to ponder the title Mac OS X Ocelot. Time to modify my circle of friends; maybe join a bowling league.
• I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. -A. De Tocqueville. Indeed!

Should an arbitrary parent-set bedtime trump the delightful lump of learning that so often results from the marriage of minor and machine? My answer: No way! Everyone learns rules but few rule learning; a condition remedied (as so many conditions are) by extending maximum freedom.

Joe is always happy to put my philosophy into action. After many attempts, we have not yet managed to hit his prescirbed bedtime. We have managed to learn a few things together. And, I fancy, make a nice picture.

Canon EOS 5D
ISO: 1000. Shutter: 1/100. Aperture: f/1.2.
Focal Length: 85.0mm.
May 11, 2008 – Dallas, Tx.

Tweets posted during the week of February 01, 2009.

• Chicago is rapidly becoming ground zero for deep dish taco.
• Defined & limited resources ≠ lack of opportunity. Just think of all the effective writing & music created with just 26 letters & 12 tones.