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
June 12th, 2007 by 
bkmarcus
From Po Meyemu:
Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 161.
- Find the fifth full sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
Don't search around looking for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
OK.
"But Shamshi-Adad drafted enough of his subjects to man his garrisons and assemble an impressive defensive force, and the Elamite attack held off a little longer."
Posted in metablog | 
June 12th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Here's mine:
"Recall ('Free Variables' in Chapter 7) that an entity defined outside a handler or script object but globally visible and not redefined within it (a free variable) takes its value within the handler or script object at the time the code runs, not at the time the handler or script object is defined."
June 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
"Totalitarian control of opinion extends, however, also to subjects which at first seem to have no political significance."
The Road to Serfdom 1969 Printing.
June 12th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
"Though we may, by nature, have a need for religious experiences, we do not have a need for religious institutions."
Calculated Chaos, by Butler Shaffer
June 12th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
"They certainly couldn't ignore Wallace's paper entirely and connive to see Darwin given credit alone; that would have been dishonorable, unprofessional, and scandalous when the truth came out."
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, by David Quammen
June 12th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
"All of the filtering will occur in the completion routine"
Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel
By Greg Hoglund and James Bulter.
Yeah, I'm a geek...
June 13th, 2007 at 10:24 am
"This process encourages the child to use complete sentences, to order information, and to observe carefully."
The Well Trained Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise
June 14th, 2007 at 11:03 am
"The same is true of Quiche Lorraine, pizzas, and Welsh Rarebit."
The Everything Cookbook, by Betty Watson
June 15th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
[...] June 15th, 2007 bkmarcus tags his readers with the 5th sentence meme. Here I go: Grab the nearest book. [...]
June 16th, 2007 at 9:29 am
"The sun will start warming and drying out the soil as the winter sogginess drains out, and the cover will keep any new rain and snow off the soil."
Square Foot Gardening, by Mel Bartholomew
June 16th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
[...] Franc echoes fifth sentence meme, by way of bkmarcus at lowercaseliberty. [...]