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19 Dec 2009, 9:35 pm
This is depressing. Seems like a shift to a Euro welfare state should take more than sixty votes. This captures it pretty well. Strange times. It feels like a 9/11 we are doing to ourselves. As bad as the consequences for health care as we know it are going to be, even worse will be the fiscal consequences. More here. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 3:25 pm
don't go into politics so much any more.Which gives me a chance to tell this true story. In 1978 I was flying from Chicago or Pittsburgh or somewhere to Ithaca, NY on Allegheny Airlines (now part of US Air and then justly known as Agony Airlines). I was sitting next to some businessman sort who inquired why I was going to Ithaca and I explained I was a senior at Cornell University. What did I want to do when I grew up, he asked. Well, I said, I thought I might… [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 6:22 pm
How many climate scientists or any other rational people would bet their own money on these models? If you are just a bit cynical to begin with, it sounds like the data going into the models are, uh, crap, and the code itself is a complete, rubbishy mess. The chances to begin with of being able to predict climate with even the most pristine, well documented and fully thought through code strike me anyway as not that great. This codes sounds like it is a complete mess.Another idea… [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 8:56 am
I told you it was an inside joke. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 4:05 pm
Insight from Barone. [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 4:42 pm
Can market mechanisms generate something like socialism?Also some gloom and doom from Krugman. He's probably right about this. I just think his solutions would make things worse. Then as things get worse we'll still have to listen to how it's all the Republicans' fault. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 6:13 pm
These polls look like fun, so here's a trial balloon poll: If Obama is elected, how bad will it be?The end of the world as we know, and I don't feel fineBad, but over in four yearsOnly marginally worse than BushFor practical purposes, the same as WIt won't be bad; it will be swellIt will be the dawning of a New Age of Peace, Understanding, etc. pollcode.com free polls [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 4:40 pm
I have been following the economic news closely lately, at least closely for me. I have to say I am pretty damn anxious about how things are going. This news about the potential, I'm tempted to say "looming", insolvency of Freddrie Mac and Fanny Mae is deeply troubling. There is, of course, absolutely no way the federal government could allow these entities to default on their obligations. The result would be a collapse of the housing market and… [read post]
12 May 2008, 4:30 pm
Much true in this essay. People who get inspired by government don't know a lot about government. Well, some do, and they are really scary. But most are just "young people", whether chronologically young or not. I fear Senator Obama is our next president, and we are in for an orgy of self-congratulation that will make the Oscars look like medieval self-flagellation. It will make that party the Israelites had before Moses showed with the tablets,… [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 12:28 pm
I think I can help on this. I own this Weber grill, running on its own pipe connected to my 1000 gallon propane tank. I have more than once turned it on full blast to clean it, forgotten about it, and then come back the next day to find the thing hot, and I mean probably pushing 1000 degrees. I don't recommend this, but it sure does burn off any excess grease and tests the general ruggedness of a grill. It still works great, and I've had it for 5… [read post]
15 Apr 2008, 9:46 am
This is just too funny. I urge you to read it, enjoy it, read it again. It's just a shame how things can slip past you when you're chillin' on your dog's yacht, yo. And you blogger-shills out there -- don't write down everything your candidate says at the billionaire's fundraider! Duh! We have a policy here at the RC that none of our bloggers are allowed to hang on any yacht longer than 300 feet, especially if they are owned by the most… [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 6:54 pm
A rave review on NPR sent LWJ into a swoon and so I have purchased this book, about the lives of select Bengali-Americans, which I gather are not always a barrel of laughs. Me, I'm not sure I want to be moved by the books I read. (The book is said to be very moving.) Nor am I entirely sure why other people want to be. Is it sort of like going to a gym for your emotions? Sort of like, you're not going to chase after a mastodon today, so you spend time… [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 10:13 am
Having read Dean Kmeic's endorsement of Obama more carefully, I can see my reaction in my comment below was too flippant. I can say now that on reflection I find his statement of endorsement baffling and completely unpersuasive. Kmeic allows that he is a Catholic (has he always been one, or did he convert?) and that marriage and presumably abortion are priority issues to him. If this is the case, I have no idea why he should support Obama. Certainly these… [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 5:58 pm
A tough way to make a living, sort of. Pretty decent writing too. [read post]
2 Mar 2008, 10:19 am
A new feature, to be posted every day, but probably not: The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. - George OrwellTrue dat. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 8:44 am
I'm saddened by Bill Buckley's death. If I can manage it, I want to write something on "Buckley the Catholic" which is something worth commenting on. In addition to his many other virtues, he was the kind of man that made you proud to be his co-religionist. He also seemed to be the kind of man who just belonged to life, such an affirmative lover of life. No doubt this is part of the reason his loss feels so wrong. But in fact, it… [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 6:48 pm
Orwell could not have done better than this absurdity. Quack! Quack quack! As I understand it, Hindley's was not a thoughtcrime but a larnyxcrime. Of course, there is no reason why the Party should not have both. And Volohk clearly does not understand Orwellian logic. He speaks as if it matters what Hindley "actually" said. Actually. How naive. Has Volokh perhaps mischaracterized the implicit normativity of denying the subjective… [read post]
21 Jan 2008, 2:07 pm
As in Depression, and as in Oh Dear. Inspired by Professor Rappaport's post below. [read post]
20 Jan 2008, 1:25 pm
Is really, really black. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 10:45 am
Watch out for those drunk flies. [read post]
