My link to this has a very narrow target audience. Ben Kraal and I recently had a discussion via email about the Australian Super Tax. Steve Keen was mentioned in the exchange. We were actually discussing possible conspiracy theory type stuff (both for economic merit and for entertainment), not the impacts it might have on the market. Anyway, when I saw both the super-tax and Steve Keen mentioned in one post from Mish, I felt obligated to post a link.

Perhaps, then, this post is not about the link, it’s about how strange my experience with tumblr has been (in a good way). Even using another blogging platform, I can’t really envision myself discussing a mining tax via email with a design researcher from a university in Australia as a consequence. Also, when you teach university classes in the US, people tend to call you a professor, even if you are a lecturer or research fellow and not a professor. But Ben corrected someone, possibly Nina, for calling him a professor, so that’s why I called him a researcher.

Wow, I’m hammered. I was running low on real beer, so I opened a World Market “Beers of the World” box last night and fed the fridge. I wasn’t so impressed with the taste, but these beers seem to have a decent alcohol percentage.