BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.
He works from Charlottesville, Virginia, as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante, and a layabout, at least in spirit.
"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."
Benjamin Tucker Marcus
June 18, 2008
May 30th, 2007 by 
bkmarcus
A friend whom I grew up with just showed me that Google Maps now has 360º single-axis photo maps of NYC, where we grew up. Very eerie. Here's my old high school:
Posted in autobiography, technology | 
May 31st, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I saw this new feature on last night's TV news -- but I still find one of Google's older features scarier: its ability to show you the physical location of any phone number. (To demonstrate: go to google.com, type a ten digit phone number separated by hyphens in the search field, and hit Go.)