http://ignoregon.com/rss/gold hill Aggregated Blog Posts From Gold Hill Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:39:54 +0000 en http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/02/forgotten-past.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/02/forgotten-past.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:34:00 +0000 Drudge links to a new painting entitled The Forgotten Man, by Utah artist Jon McNaughton. Follow the link and mouse over the picture to learn a little about American economic history. http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/shame-on-earl.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/shame-on-earl.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:03:00 +0000 Walking around Gold Hill lately we've seen a lot of vacant houses. It wasn't that way three years ago. Back then it seemed like everyone was remodeling, painting, landscaping. Boom times. Tiny little houses sold for two hundred thousand. Some people who had bought their houses twenty years ago for thirty thousand put them up for sale. They didn't really want to move, but for that kind of money, why not? Then times got tough. More people were selling but nobody was buying. Gradually the... http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/history-of-dieting.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/history-of-dieting.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:55:00 +0000 Over at Spiked, part of the news bath that rarely gets mentioned, Rob Lyons reviews Calories and Corsets by Louise Foxcroft. "Foxcroft starts right back with the ancient Greeks, who knew that those who are uncommonly fat... die more quickly than the lean, even if they also recognised that in all maladies, those who are fat about the belly do best; it is bad to be thin and wasted there. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, recognised through observation that people's constitutions were... http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/verdict-of-historians.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/verdict-of-historians.html Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:10:00 +0000 "How do historians rank presidents who achieve prosperity and security for Americans? Let's pose the question this way: What if we had a president who, in his first two years as president, cut federal spending in half; produced budget surpluses in both years; cut tax rates, and slashed unemployment from 12 to 2%? Where should historians rank such a man? "Dead last. http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/cant-happen-here.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/01/cant-happen-here.html Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:43:00 +0000 The domain name associated with the website grdurand.com has been seized pursuant to an order issued by an U.S. District Court. A federal grand jury has indicted one individual allegedly involved in the operation of grdurand.com and charged it with the following federal crimes: Conspiracy to Commit Snark (18 U.S.C. 1962(d)), Conspiracy to Commit Sophmoric Humor (18 U.S.C. 2, 2319), and Criminal Copywriting (17 U.S.C. 506).Just remember, though. The fat guy is not evil because he's fat. Nor...