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About Me

I'm a starving student living in Osborne village, double majoring in philosophy and economics at the University of Manitoba. If I ever have to choose between buying food or beer, I split the difference and buy Guinness. See, that's the type of smarts I'm picking up.If you actually want to know anything about me, read my blog. It's very telling.

My Interests

Writing, philosophy, photography, consumption.

I'd like to meet:

Morally bankrupt people with some obvious disability: muscular distrophy, mongoloidism, missing limbs, whatever.

Music:

Underground hip hop and indy rock.

Movies:

steven seagal or rodney dangerfield.

Television:

Who knew my apartment had free basic cable? House, Heroes, 24, and so on.

Books:

Robert Greene; F.A. Hayek; Milton Friedman; Machiavelli; John Kennedy Toole; Tom Wolfe; Marcus Aurelius; John Updike; Steven Landsburg's Armchair Economist; Isaiah Berlin; Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything; Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy; The Bible and Qu'ran; ...

Heroes:

Andre the Giant

My Blog

Fight Club Labor Markets

It'll probably seem like I'm writing allover the place, starting projects and abandoning them. But this will mesh with my statement on morals. I have an IROM story mulling around, too. Equivocation al...
Posted by smith smithwise on Thu, 03 May 2007 12:49:00 PST

A brief statement on ethics

A lot of my past writing has alluded to political and moral philosophy. I'd like to discuss more directly what I've been getting at.Anyway, I've been reading quite a bit lately about success, doing wh...
Posted by smith smithwise on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:24:00 PST

I.R.O.M. and intro and The Early Years.

I.R.O.M. "Déjà vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you."Pete Rock and CL SmoothT.R.O.Y. For the last few weeks I've been mulling around the idea that I could divide my ...
Posted by smith smithwise on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:31:00 PST

You gotta be straight up

"You gotta be straight up though. I'm not big or small. I'm not old or young. If you come in here tomorrow, though, and you're a different person, you know," he throws a slow motion punch at the air. ...
Posted by smith smithwise on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:32:00 PST

275 dollars? Dream on.

I received a letter today from the City Government.Apparently, they want me to pay $275 for the ambulance ride to the hospital after I was assaulted. Considering I don't have $275, this kind of wishfu...
Posted by smith smithwise on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:04:00 PST

I declare war on KFC

I ordered some KFC the other night. It resulted in one of the worst things that's ever happened to me. Take a look:Look at that. 0 grams of trans fats? What is that?It's a bold claim to tell me fried ...
Posted by smith smithwise on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:42:00 PST

Every man should get his ass kicked...but hopefully by another man.

I apologize for the quality of writing in this piece. I know it's not the best that I'm capable of. Unfortunately, I'm writing this through a haze of codeine and post-trauma exhaustion, it's not the i...
Posted by smith smithwise on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:47:00 PST

Living in the City is a Hillarious Task: Monday

"Hey, let's go over here. I don't want you guys to get busted or nothing."We start moving up Osborne, "yeah, let's go to the alley or something," I agree. We stop not even ten feet away as Joe turns i...
Posted by smith smithwise on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:09:00 PST

RIP Milton Friedman

Give it up, the greatest economist of the last 50 years just died. Milton Friedman, lover of liberty, incredible genius, wildly influential: you will be missed. It was Milton Friedman's book, Capitali...
Posted by smith smithwise on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:42:00 PST