Monday morning (early) musings

So happy May 1st.

John Kenneth Galbraith died the other day.

Here's an interesting synopsis of some of his ideas that pissed off detractors the most.

The Wall Street Journal captured what some of the bloggers said about his passing here.

This commentary was especially hateful:

I don't feel saddened by Galbraith's death, heis nothing now and should have been nothing from the beginning. Had itnot been for the undue influence of East Coast Liberals in ourgovernment throughout the fifties and sixties, he would have simplybeen a stranded economics professor at some university trying to get agrant to publish a theory that was horribly flawed.
-- A comment posted to conservative media criticism blog NewsBusters.

The folks over at the Mises blog held a rather dim view of him, as well.

As it is late, I can't write on this further, but I shall come back to this later.

Goofing with icons

I was futzing around with icons:
from Gilmore Girls
from Interjection! on Schoolhouse Rock
from Adjectives on Schoolhouse Rock

Monday Recap

I'm loving my new monitor. I can throw a lot of stuff on this desktop, now. I'm thrilled.

While at the gym this afternoon, Oprah was on the gym television. Here's should be a new craze for dieting, I suppose, though it doesn't seem too far off from the South Beach Diet at all. The woman who went on the 90 plan lost 43 lbs. and looked fantastic. Of course, dying her hair and wearing makeup certainly helped.

Bed should come soon, though I do not wish to go. Feh.

*tap, tap* Attention!

I forgot to do this last week, but I must pass on the information.

The brilliant, lovely, and talented shimaera, aka "Mishty the Magical Mensan Who Belongs to a Club Who Can't Spell Her Name", is performing a show come this Memorial Day Weekend. Those of you who dwell in Southern California or know people who do, pass it on!