Blog post of the year
I was going to re-post it, but I'll just link to it . Read it. It's the most interesting blog post I've read...uh...possibly ever.
This article is so annoying I can't think of a sardonic blog post title
Roger Cohen in the NYT : The world exists in what Paul Saffo, a forecaster at Stanford University, calls “punctuated equilibrium.” Every now...
Mr. Noah's prison reform proposal
Ezra Klein has a blog post about the horrors of prison rape, and suggests we "move towards a system dedicated to preemption and rehabi...
Something to keep you up at night
The financial crisis. The Iraq war. Global warming. These are things that might keep you up at night. But they don't really represent im...
Hurricane Jihad
Ezra Klein writes : This really seems to be the difference between liberals and neoconservatives on foreign policy, doesn't it? Neocons...
The most important thing we can do for our economy...
...is, I predict, to approve the National Infrastructure Bank being sponsored by Chris Dodd and Chuck Hagel. Commission on Public Infrastru...
I hate the Democratic primary campaign, Post #1,000,000,000
I'm sitting here watching MSNBC, by far the most liberal of the cable news networks, and I'm watching a panel about how the eternal ...
Right is the opposte of wrong
Megan McArdle, a conservative blogger whom Brad DeLong has nominated for "stupidest woman alive," makes a list of the things she ...
Obama race speech, Post 2
Obama's "race speech" was good. Very good. So good that even Charles Murray, writer of The Bell Curve , said Obama "talk...
We must not anger our Chinese overlords business partners!
William Pesek writes in Bloomberg: Why aren't Westerners so quick to celebrate Kosovo's independence championing Tibet's cause ...
Obama race speech, Post 1
I thought this was a great speech - by far the best of the campaign so far, and the best I've heard in years - so I think I'll write...
Economics post!!
It was requested that I do a post about the tanking economy, and so here goes. Please God, don't let my professors be reading my blog. I...
Democratic doom, cont.
The Democratic infighting situation just isn't improving. A year ago it looked like it was the Republicans who were due for an ideologic...
A giant among geeks
Let them eat GDP
The Economist points out that GDP per person is a better way of measuring a nation's economic well-being than simple GDP. Rightly so. ...
The Prostitution Solution
The outing of Eliot Spitzer's hooker-buying caused me to take another look at an issue that's always puzzled and frustrated me in t...
Brad DeLong hails our new Chinese overlords
In a post about trade issues, star economist and sage-of-the-blogosphere Brad DeLong segues once again onto one of his favorite topics: the ...
From bad to worse
I am getting so sick and disgusted of this Democratic primary race. One reason is this : 20% of Democratic primary voters said that "ra...
Tough Cookies
Yglesias takes a look at the same Pew Poll I looked at , and thinks it's great news for Obama . His reasoning: [The results] don't, ...
Attack of the useless people
Recently, a friend of mine raised the possibility that to many smart Americans are going into finance instead of more "productive"...
