One of the biggest increases in my standard of living in the last few years comes from the fact that we recently went from zero Ethiopian restaurants in the whole state of Alabama to two in Birmingham. Both are outstanding. There’s Red Sea on Green Springs and Ghion Cultural Hall at the Pizitz Food Hall […]
I Eat Things: Ghost Pepper Cheese at Carrigan’s Public House
It’s official: I no longer enjoy really spicy food. One of Birmingham’s better places is Carrigan’s Public House. They make a very, very good burger, but I’ve learned that the ghost pepper cheese option simply isn’t for me. On a recent visit, I got the burger with the ghost pepper cheese, and while the fries […]
I “Read” Things: Audiobooks and Webcomics
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises. I found it bleak, honestly–a story about people with what seems like nothing more to live for than the next drink. I could be completely off base with this, but I’m reminded of Deirdre McCloskey’s description of the characters in La Boheme. Audiobook: if you don’t have Audible, you […]
Economics and the Environment by Art Carden
The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange (Independent Institute, July 25, 2017) More and Better: Resources Defined Through Property and Exchange (Independent Institute, May 5, 2017) A New Bet? (Regulation, Fall 2016) The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America (Iee.org, Fall 2016) What Should Austrian […]
I Read Things: Bedtime Stories
Essential Hulk, Volume 1. This is bedtime reading with David (our five-year-old). It’s interesting to read comics from the 1960s and see, among other things, one of the ways in which fear manifested itself in the early cold war. Rise of the Isle of the Lost. This is the third novel in the Disney’s Descendants franchise, […]
Economics and the Environment by Art Carden
The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America (Iee.org, Fall 2016) Of Fossil Fuels, Forests, and the Future of Prosperity (econlog.org, November 11, 2013) On climate change, government is not the answer (Washington Examiner, November 17, 2012) Just Give Them Water Filters And Whatnot (artcarden.com, April 21, 2011) Green economics or […]
Environment
Environmental and Resource Economics (MISES U 2009, August 1, 2009) Environmental Economics (Forbes.com, April 21, 2009) The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America (Iee.org, Fall 2016) Just Give Them Water Filters And Whatnot (artcarden.com, April 21, 2011) Of Fossil Fuels, Forests, and the Future of Prosperity (econlog.org, November 11, 2013)
I Listen to Things: Led Zeppelin Since Led Zeppelin
I was that kid in high school who knew that Led Zeppelin was originally called the New Yardbirds (and that Jimmy Page had, with Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, been a member of the Yardbirds). When I got my first iPod in 2007, one of my first purchases was the complete Zeppelin catalog—a bargain at […]
I Play Things: Civilization Revolution 2
We got our first “real” computer when I was in high school. It had a two-speed CD ROM and a 435 MB hard drive. It ran Windows 3.11. And it was powerful enough to run Civilization and SimCity 2000. These were, as far as I was concerned, the peak of computer gaming (just as, in opinion, […]