Many people I spoke to about seeing the Lourve pretty much said that it wasn't terribly exciting. I guess it's sort of like Citizen Kane; once a reputation reaches a certain point a lot of people are inevitably going to be disappointed. But granting that...
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....baffle them with bullshit.":Apparently there's a simple reason why [corporate] annual reports are hard to read: managers, in many cases, are trying to hide something.The study, Annual Report Readability, Earnings.
Several of the cases recently handed down by the Supreme Court have been interesting more for what they tell us about the future than for the cases themselves. An excellent.
One has to wonder what the point of this editorial is. Carter and Perry assert that the United States ought to attack North Korea in an effort to prevent the launch of the Taepodong II ballistic missile. What this would accomplish is unclear. One does...
Three weeks ago Davida and I visited Ashland, the Lexington home of Henry Clay. As an historical site the estate was quite interesting, although the original house had been torn.
...by, at quite possibly the last possible moment, providing a well-deserved full time position for Russell Arben Fox. Which, amongst other things, means the political theory blogosphere will not lose.
Thomas Schaller has an article in the American Prospect about a forum he participated in at Yearly Kos with Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, a political consultant specializing in how Democrats can appeal to voters in the South. Schaller makes the point that if we talk about...
Maha says all that needs to be said in re: the ridiculous touts of "new" WMD discoveries by various Republican operatives:I keep reading, and find that this is not a.
Radley Balko's post about Scalia's Orwellian citations made me think of two points I neglected in my previous post on the subject: Scalia's causal logic is, indeed, bizarre--the fact that.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a new protocol that would allow companies to make proxy materials -- large, thick stacks of paper -- available to investors on the internet instead of mailing individual packets to thousands of shareholders.AAO Weblog points out that one...
I'm late with this, as usual -- everyone's probably already seen Yglesias's pointer to the Washington Post's review of Ron Suskind's new book: The One Percent Doctrine. I'm just going.
(In light of a new development in the case, Scott's encouraged me to recycle something I once posted on my own blog. 'Coz ... it's new to you ....)With no.