Darin Bradley is all over this page, so I’m going to stop identifying him every time I have to mention him. If you don’t know him by now, you haven’t been paying attention (and judging by our traffic numbers, you haven’t!).
And I’m going to start responding to the things he says over on Suvudu, where he has begun a new blog series about the Pox Eclipse in all its myriad forms.
This first post is just a hello, so we’ll see what happens next. I’m not above a little recreational trolling …
Andrew Sullivan’s blog today pointed readers to yet another blogger’s summary of the PhilPapers surveys, in which hundreds of professional and semi-pro philosophers responded to a number of basic metaphysical questions.
Among them was the question of free will, and the vast majority believe that the universe is either deterministic in a way that is compatible with free will or that free will does not exist at all. Leaving aside my own libertarian leanings (both metaphysical and political), it is clear that the people have spoken.
And since the universe functions in this way, and since Amazon added an important new item this weekend, you have no choice but to choose to pre-order Farrago-founder Darin Bradley’s novel Noise.
Immediately. The universe demands it.
So, it has a name now—well, that’s something.
More interesting to me, however, is the newest tide of unease washing over economists: “6 double dip warning signs”*
I am not surprised. Look, there really wasn’t any reason for everyone to start hollering that the recession was over. Yes, things were turning upward, ever so slightly. New unemployment claims per month were dropping, new layoffs per month were dropping, and home values were supposedly “bottoming out.”** Everyone—citizens, administrations, economists—was so eager and so primed for any sign of recovery that what gains we were making were being blown out of proportion. It’s the equivalent of cheering after floating in an ark for 40 days, only to find out on day 41 that the water was now five feet shallower than it had been. You’re still screwed, but, Oh, great day in the mornin’!
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The recession is over! Break out the champagne and the credit cards—it’s time to get back to normal!
Five More Banks Fail.
2009 total: 120 (to date)
2008 total: 25
2007 total: 2
2006 total: 0
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Noise is coming …
Salvage Country will teach you to raise a new nation state.
Hint: It’s a novel forthcoming from Farrago founder Darin Bradley.
