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Writing/Film Dear Aspiring Writers: The Worst Advice You'll Ever Read Don't Write for Readers, Just Write Grants Ernest Lehman, Screenwriter Central Casting, Dept. of Acceptable EVil Tinseltown Tags Titles from Bard When Empire Was Easy: Around the World in 80 Days Trois Colours: White Spirited Away: Decay and Renewal Suzhou River Blue: Love and Loss The Nelson Touch Running On Empty "It's all about oil, isn't it?" An American Poem (Robinson Jeffers) Taoist Chinese Poems 2006 A Literary Look at I-State Lines Kurosawa's High and Low A Bountiful Mutiny Howl's Moving Castle Thailand's Iron Ladies Trois Colours: Red The Thin Man: Thoroughly Modern Movies Iranian Films: The Mirror Piratical Nonsense A Real Pirate Movie: Captain Blood The Con in Confidence: The Confidence Man Yojimbo (film) / Heart of the Matter (novel) Secrets of Lord Nelson's Success Gavan Daws, Historian

American Identity Hapas: The New America Can You Tell What I am? Part I Can You Tell What I am? Part II Only in America Self-Reliance 2006 Your Tattoo in 50 Years The American House and Frank Lloyd Wright Defeat and Over-Confidence Cultural Commentaries On Hatred and Anti-Americanism Anti-Americanism Part 2 Anti-Americanism Part 3 French-Bashing 2006 The World Is Not a U.S. Suburb Germany: We All Have Problems, But... Round Dwellings Kroika! Chronicles This Blog Sells Out Doom and Gloom Sells The Kroika Mascot-"Auspicious Pet" Wal-Mart and Kroika 2006 Kroika and Starsbuck Take a Hit Kroika Ad 1 Kroika Ad 2 Kroika Ad 3 Kroika Ad 4 Kroika Bids for Oreo! Jank Coffee Happiness Is a Cup O Jank The Jank Coffee Shop Jank Coffee, Upscale Tropic Style Marketing Follies My Brand Management Stinks This Blog for Sale, But Not for $5

Unfolding Crises: Asia China: An Interim Report Shanghai Postcard 2004 Japan's Runaway Debt Train Will Avian Flu Trigger a Global Depression? China and India: Five Flies in the Ointment China & the U.S.: Circle of Self-Interest China Trade Surplus: Gusher Profits for U.S. Air Pollution and China's Future China: What a difference 27 years makes China Irony: Steel, Marx & Capital Is Japan's Recovery Sustainable? Corruption and Avian Flu: China's Dynamic Duo Exporting the Real Estate Bubble to China Is the Bloom Off the China Rose? 2006 Curing The U.S. and China's Dysfunctional Relationship China and U.S. Inflation Trade with China: Making Out Like a Bandit Whither China? Will the Housing Bust Take Down China? China's Dependence on Exports to U.S.; Is China About to Pop? The Rot in the Middle Kingdom A Tale of Two Debts: Japan and the U.S. What we can learn from Japan's 15-year decline in real estate China Syndrome: Is Growth Sustainable? Is China a Bubble?

Battle for the Soul of America Katrina, Vietnam, Iraq: National Purpose, National Sacrifice The End of Empire is Real Simple A Degree of Success Why the Democrats Keep Losing American Chickenhawks: Your Congress Is This a Nation at War? A Nation in Denial Hawaii National Guard: An Unfair Deployment The Great Karmic Unraveling This is not Vietnam American Dream or American Nightmare? Why Is This Such a Tepid Time? Bringing the War Home The False Gods of Consumerism That Price Isn't Cheap, It's Subsidized U.S. Fascists Seek Ban on Cancer Vaccine The Truth About Christmas The Most Hated Company in America 2006 2006 Sea Change Obesity and Debt Baseball: Rot at the Center of the Empire Immigration Ironies Medication Nation U.S. Healthcare: Working Toward a Real Solution A Drug Industry Running Amok Where There Is Ruin Birth of America, The Alternate Version Corporate Rot I Corporate Rot II The Popularity of Consensus I Am a Member of an Absurd Elite Now Is The Winter of Our Discontent Will This Be A More Enlightened Christmas? The 7 Most Important Stories of 2007 Iraqi Moneypit Iraq and Vietnam: A Nam Vet's View Homeland "Security" and Insecurity Design Follies The New Jank Coffee Shop Jank Coffee, Upscale Tropic Style Round Dwellings

Financial Meltdown Watch What This Country Needs Is a... Good Recession Are We Entering the Next Age of Turmoil? Why Inflation Appears Low Meltdown in the E.U. Meltdown: U.S. - China Retirees: the New Elite? Boomers: Prepare to Fall on Your Swords The Real Federal Deficit The Word of the Decade: Gold Katrina's Long-Term Effects Catalyzing the Great Unraveling Welcome to 1935 Meltdown in the Making Is Risk Eliminated, or Merely Increased? Adios, O Bogus Prosperity Doubling Down on 5-Card No-See-Um Greenspan & The Conundrum Effect Why are we in this handbasket? Stock Market Tea Leaves The Scandals Yet to Come A Rickety Global House of Cards Are Japan and Germany Truly on the Mend? Unprecedented Risk 2 October Crash Redux Five Good Things About Recession Clear Skies or Storm Clouds? Zero Savings and Rising Retail Sales Foreigners Buy U.S. Debt--A Vicious Cycle Could One Rogue Trader Bring Down the Market? Worried about Inflation? Stop Measuring It Economy Great? Bah, Humbug Huge Deficits and Huge Profits: Coincidence? Who's The Largest Exporter? Three Snapshots of the U.S. Economy 2006 The Coming Conflagration Who's the Doomsdayer? Storm Clouds of Recession The Next Stock market Plummet This Is False Prosperity What's the Point of Doom and Gloom? Entitlements Chickens are Coming home to Roost Sugar-Coated Denial Are We Poor or Prosperous? The Bubble Mentality Loaded for Bear Comparing Nasdaq to Depression-Era Dow Who's Buying Treasury Bonds? And Why? Derivatives: Wall Street Fiddles, Rome Smolders Complacency, Denial, Risk Five Financial Fairy tales Coming to a Market Near You: Crash! Financial Chickens Coming Home to Roost Is the Stock Market on the Same Planet as the Economy? The Housing-Recession-Oil-Healthcare Connection Could We Have Deflation and Inflation At the Same Time? What We Know, What We Can Safely Predict Is Getting Rich Really This Easy? Bankruptcy U.S.A.: Medicare, Greed and Collapse Sucker's Rally A Whiff of Apocalypse Where There Is Ruin, There Is Profit Whither the Dollar and Interest Rates? Basel II and Banking Risks Retail Sales and Rising Debt: Could They Be Connected? Protecting Capital 1 Protecting Capital 2 Protecting Capital 3 Protecting Capital 4 Protecting Capital 5 Why I am Not a Pundit Is There Cross-Feedback Between Housing and Stocks? The Bonds-Gold Connection The New Dow "High" Are Business Ethics Hitting New "Highs"? Our (Mis)Trusted Regulators Do You Trust This Market Rally? Google Buys YouTube: the Top Is In How Now, "High" Dow? New Dow High: A Clear-Eyed Look Bad Luck Bonds (Friday the 13th) Getting Bond Yields Right Is the Dow Breaking Out? Financial Survival Gloom, Doom or Boom? Up, Down or Sideways? What Is the Low VIX Telling Us? Beneath the Surface: The Dollar Beneath the Surface: Bonds Beneath the Surface: Gold Beneath the Surface: Commodities and the Wealth Effect Beneath the Surface: the Dollar Are Labor Costs Rising? Market Manipulation--how it works Is the Market Top In, Or Still to Come? Gold and the Empire of Debt Risk, Manipulation and Liquidity What If Rates Don't Drop? More Portents of Doom More on ETFs Will Retail Sales Be a Lump of Coal? When Virtuous Cycles Turn Unvirtuous

Planetary Meltdown Watch The Immensity of Global Warming Sun Sets on Skeptics of Global Warming Housing Bubble Watch Housing Bubble? What Bubble? Housing Bubble II Housing Bubble III: Pop! Hidden Costs of the Housing Bubble Housing Market Slips Toward Cliff Housing Market Demographics 2006 Commercial Real Estate Blues The Housing Conundrum The Three Laws of Real Estate As the Real Estate Bubble Pops, so Does the Economy Bubble Pop: Coup-de Grace to the Economy A Monster of a Housing Bubble Housing Bubble: Reader Feedback Housing: Catching the Falling Knife Five Stages of the Housing Bubble Hidden Costs of the Housing Bubble Outbreak of Bubbleria Devastates Nation Foreclosures: How Bad Will It Get? Foreclosures 2: How Many? Bubble Bust: Where's the Bottom? Another Way of Figuring the Bottom The Housing-Inflation Connection Unaffordability: The Mobile Homeless Derailing the Property Tax Gravytrain Bubbling Property Taxes Have You Checked Your Property Taxes Recently? Charting Unaffordability How Many Foreclosures Will Hit the Market? Housing Wealth Effect Shifts Into Reverse Housing Bubble Bust Will Take Down the Global Economy The New Road to Serfdom: A Negative-Equity Mortgage The Housing-Savings-Recession Connection After the Bubble: How Low Will It Go? After the Bubble: Rents and Housing Values Why Post-Bubble Rents Matter After the Bubble: How Low Will We Go, Part II Housing: 10% Decline May Trigger Financial Ruin How to Buy a $450K Home for $750K The New Road to Serfdom: A Negative-Equity Mortgage Inflation and Housing: Calculating the Bust The Growing Financial Risks of the Housing Bubble Construction Defects: The Flood to Come? Construction Defects Part II Who Gets Hammered in the 2007 Housing Bust Real Estate Bust: The Exhaustion of Debt What Happens When Housing Employment Plummets? One More Hole in the Housing Bubble: Insurance Financial Kryptonite in a "Super-Strength" Housing Market Three Secrets to Unloading Property Today Welcome to Fantasyland: Housing's "Soft Landing" Why Is the Median House Price Still Rising? Why Median Prices Appear to be Rising? The Root Cause of the Housing Bubble Housing Dominoes Fall Twilight for Exurbia? Phase Transitions, Symmetry and Post-Bubble Declines Mortgage Risk Meltdown Second Home Madness Foreclosure Alternative: Wheel Estate What we can learn from Japan's 15-year decline in real estate Big Lies, Small Lies and felony Lies: Real Estate 2006 Plateau of Denial Housing Bottom is Now--Or Not Fortress of Denial Housing's Stairstep Descent: 39 Steps Down Stories from the Housing Frontlines The 60-Year Mortgage Stories from the Housing Frontlines II Real Estate and the Derivatives Powder Keg Housing's Two Monsters Southwest Over-Building, Wacky Mortgage Business

Oil/Energy Crises Whither Oil? How much Is a Gallon of Gas Worth? The End of Cheap Oil Natural Gas, Naturally High Arab Oil Money and U.S. Treasuries: Quid Pro Quo? The C.I.A., Oil and the Wisdom of Crowds The Flutter of a Butterfly's Wings? A One-Two Punch to a Glass Jaw 2006 $200 a Barrel Oil Oil Supply and Demand Oil Rising Running Out Of Oil vs. Running Out of Cheap Oil Is the Price of Oil Manipulated? Whither the Price of Oil? (up) The Winning Trifecta: Autos, Oil and Healthcare Solutions Get This Right and Wealth Will Follow: Oil Reserves Decline Outside the Box How to Make a Favicon Asian Emoticons In Memoriam: Winky Cosmos The Wheeled Vagabonds Geezer Rock Overload Math Class Doodles (animated) Paying for Web Content On Personal Risk Assessing Danger: Personal Risk 2 Haiku Fun Reader Haiku / The Con in Confidence The Popularity of Consensus In a Humorous Vein If Only Writers Had Uniforms Opening the Kimono Ten Guaranteed Predictions for 2010 Why My Book Is Better Than the DaVinci Code The New Disease We Just Know You've Got My Brand Management Stinks Travails of an Unknown Author One-Word Titles Complacency Nostalgia Greediocy Lifespans Praxis Keys to Affordable Housing U.S. Conservation & China Steve Toma, Me & Skil 77s: 30 years of Labor Real Science in the Bolivian Forest Deforestation and Sustainable Forestry The Solar Economy (book) The Problem with Techno-Fixes I Love Technology, I Hate Technology How To Blow off Web Ads and More 2006 The Feel of Quality The Art of Craft High Energy Cost Solution Is Close To Home--And Work The American House and Frank Lloyd Wright Gifts and Gold Round Dwellings

Health, Wealth & Demographics Beauty of the Augmented (Korean) Kind Demographics and War The Healthiest Cold Cereal: Surprise! 900 Miles to the Gallon Are Our Cities Making Us Fat? One Serving of Deception Is Obesity an Inflammatory Response? Demographics & National Bankruptcy The Decline of Europe: A Demographic Done Deal? 2006 Are the Risks of Obesity Overstated? Healthcare: Unaffordable Everywhere Kaiser: A Model for National Healthcare U.S. Healthcare: Working Toward a Real Solution The New Disease We Just Know You've Got Can You Can Tell Which Pill Is Fake? Bankruptcy U.S.A.: Medicare, Greed and Collapse The 10 Secrets to Permanent Weight Loss Readers Weigh In on Weight Loss Tips The Winning Trifecta: Autos, Oil and healthcare Solutions The New Drug You need: Discolegato Workable National Healthcare Landscapes Selling the Landscape The Downside of Density Building Heights and Arboral Roots Terroir: France & California L.A.: It's About Cheap Oil The Last Redwood Airport Walkabouts 2006 Building Heights, Density and Liveability Rooftop Gardens Waimea Canyon, Yosemite, Camping & Pancakes Huzzah for Iowa Nourishment The French Village Bakery Chocolate Is Good For You

Ideas What Is Happiness? Our Education System: a Factory Metaphor? Education: Replacing the Factory With The Workshop Understanding Globalization: Braudel Can You Create Creativity? Do Average People Know More Than Their Leaders? On The Impermanence of Work Flattening the Knowledge Curve: The "Googling" Effect Human Bandwidth and Knowledge Iraqi Guangxi Splogs, Blogs and "News" "There is no alternative to being yourself" 2006 Is There a Cycle to War? Leisure, Time and Valentines Is the Web a Giant Copy Machine? Science Matters Anti-Missile Defense: Boost Phase Vulnerability History The Strolling Bones: Rock of Ages Bad Karma: Election Fraud 1960 Hiroshima: First Use All the Tea in China, All the Ginseng in America The Great SF Earthquake of 1906

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Friday Quiz Quiz #1: Pet Obesity 2006 Energy Use and Waste Energy Use and Waste The Origins of Carbonara Organic Farms Oil and Renewable Energy Human Diseases Largest Oil Producers E.U.'s Biggest (Legal) Drug Consumers Wine and Alzheimers Biggest Consumers of Chocolate Calories in Chocolate Median Price of a U.S. House Wage Inflation in China Why Should You Buy my Book? Where Is This? April06-1 Where Is This? April06-2 Where Is This? April06-3 Where Is This? May06-1 Where Is This? May06-2 Where Is This? May06-3 Where Is This? May06-4 Where Is This? June06-1 Where Is This? June06-2 Where Is This? June06-3 Where Is This? June06-4 Where Is This? June06-5 Where Is This? July06-1 Where Is This? July06-2 Where Is This? July06-3 Where Is This? July06-4 Where Is This? November06

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