Monthly Archives: January 2010

Matt Yglesias makes the case for guilt-free mortgage defaults: My mortgage is an agreement I’ve made with Bank of America which is a publicly traded for-profit corporation. Companies like that, unlike people or people agencies or other kinds of institutions, … Continue reading →

Catching up on my RSS feeds, Tom Lee has two posts on Avatar that strike me as so obviously correct that they leave me with very little original to say. Go read them. Especially this part in response to this … Continue reading →

I hope everyone had a great end to the naughties! Regular blogging will resume later this month as promised. In the meantime, here’s some reading material: At Ars Technica, I cover the patent office’s latest efforts to tighten the rules … Continue reading →