An Op-Ed in the New York Times by Paul Krugman this morning caught my attention. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27krugman.html?ref=opinion Dr. Krugman is responding to an article about executive pay on Wall Street, which is set to shoot back up to 2007 levels this year following a brief drop in 2008. This revelation brought up all the feelings of [...]
Archive for April 27th, 2009
Revenge at what cost?
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Cartoons and Punishment
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Futurama is one of my favorite animated television shows. In a fourth season episode, “Three Hundred Big Boys”, the recent Earth invasion of Tarantulon VI has caused a surplus. To resolve this, Earthican President Richard Nixon gives the riches away to the taxpaying Earth citizens; $300 in the form of a “Tricky-Dick-Fun-Bill”. Bender, the robotic [...]
Hell hath no fury
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My girlfriend and I were sitting in my room a while ago while I was working on a response paper for this class. She asked me what the class what about and when I told her it was about revenge and ethics, she told me about a site she’d seen before about breakup stories and [...]
