Crime and Punishment

Smart Links 07 January 2013
Paul Summerville • January 7, 2013

Crime and punishment for ‘sexually dangerous persons’ in the United States.

I worked my way through my early years of university, until I learned how to win scholarships, by working in bars as a disc jockey. The places I worked in made it very good sense to be on good terms with the bouncers as hiding behind the disc jockey turntables when customers 'went wild' was not always optimal.

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Smart Links 10 May 2012
Paul Summerville • May 9, 2012

Today's image is a Japanese rice field designed to look like Hokusai's famous wave! Thanks to Robin of Victoria.

Commentary on the geography debate, having it both ways, the prison guru dies but his terrible legacy remains, and the dangerous Tom Mulcair.

Is it about geography or something else?

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Smart Links -- 26 March 2011
Paul Summerville • March 26, 2011

Too Close too Call – (Almost) First Day of the Campaign: Game Over
 

 

Globe Mail – The Big 50 Seats That Will Steer the Country

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World
This Time A Majority, Solidus, The Fed’s All Right, Death Sentence, Careful Obama, Not Educating Rita, Leaving Tokyo
Paul Summerville • March 26, 2011

Articles on Canada’s May 2nd  federal election and why Prime Minister Harper is likely to win a majority, how the Romans conquered inflation, in defence of how the Federal Reserve thinks about inflation, why the California hanging judge thinks the death penalty is a bad idea, the careful President, America’s immigration mistake, and exit Tokyo.

Not being in the forecasting business anymore, here is our forecast for Canada’s upcoming Federal election.

Stephen Harper will form a majority government.

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Smart Picks' Blog -- 14 December 2010
Paul Summerville • December 14, 2010

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World
Smart Links -- 14 December 2010
Paul Summerville • December 14, 2010

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Morning Market at Nihonbashi -- Hirokage

Financial Times -- LatAm Lessons for Eurozone to Avoid Lost Decade 

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World
Euro's Latin Lessons, China's Currency Challenge, Blind Giant, Exit Ramp, Less Jail, Wall Street Types, Henry V on Leadership
Paul Summerville • December 14, 2010

The Euro is cornered.

A flawed enterprise from the very beginning, blind to history, Euro hubris made the currency more susceptible to collapse because of the incorporation of countries that were fiscal wrecks.

Morning Market at Nihonbashi -- Hirokage

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