Gross National Happiness

Propaganda Reloaded. Turkey and NATO, Crocodile Tears About Afghanistan, Origin of a Soldier and Egypt Goes to the Taliban

April 13th, 2012

The Propagandist cleaves through its enemies, leaving a mass of defeated souls and a small river of blood and gore. Metaphorically, of course.

Happy Friday, y'all.

Here are some of the latest dispatches from our pugnacious pundits:

Turkey Plays the NATO Card. When the Turks aren't actively blocking their NATO allies, they like to pretend they have them in their pocket.
NDP Purports to Give a Crap About Afghans. Oh, so, now, you care?
Why I Want to Serve. A new recruit tells why he enrolled in the USA's Reserve Officer Training Corps.
Gross National Happiness and Other Economic Indicators. We may be dirt poor, but at least we're miserable.
When Women Are Their Own Worst Enemies. Chris Brown may be a woman-beating douche. But he's a sexy woman-beating douche, right? Right?
More Proof Egypt is a Taliban State. Like we needed any.

Confusion to our enemies!...More >>

Gross National Happiness and Other Economic Indicators

April 10th, 2012

The tiny Asian kingdom of Bhutan, known by some as The Mouse That Prattled, is the main source of the notion of Gross National Happiness. This is best summarised as the idea that economists should attempt to count the uncountable; its proponents, typically of a leftish cast, appear to consider “money isn’t everything” a truly innovative idea.

Why stop there? What about...

OTHER CONCEIVABLY IMPORTANT ECONOMIC INDICES

Gross National Bitterness: An important dataset which considers the annual number of sneers, eye-rolls, and pooh-poohings in a given population.

Consumptive Confidence Index: Measures buying intentions among 19th-century poets who are dying of tuberculosis.

Housing Non-Starters: Count of households unwilling to consider Xander and his python as potential roommates.

Bhutanese Trade Balance: Indicator of the amount of misery Bhutan must import to achieve parity with its happiness exports.

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EBITDA: Considers the economic status of the mean old lady who lives above the dollar store and whose name is possibly Croatian.

Gross National Confusion: Measure of a population’s ability to understand economic indicators; potentially unreliable.

National Indifference Index: Counts the number of friends made by Bhutanese economists at any given party;...More >>