$50 that shall remain in my pocket. I'll buy Krugman's next book for less than that new. Starting in September, access to the New York Times Op-Ed section andsome of its news columnists on NYTimes.com will only be availablethrough a fee of $49.95 a year....
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Dave Noon continues to dominate. Only Dave Watkins manages to keep the LGM crowd out of the three last slots in the standings.1 Axis of Evel Knievel, Dave Noon 1748.
Via the Poor Man, Assrocket gets a running start, sprints, and crashes through the floor of human decency:I really think that calling Newsweeks blunder the presss Abu Ghraib is unfair.
Henry Farrel has a nice example of the functionalist fallacy as applied by Stephen Bainbridge to the Royal Navy. He also has the single best title of any post I have seen in my blogging career. A functional explanation of an institution proceeds something as...
I am a postmodernist.Rest of post removed because it was messing up our template.
Via Prof. B., I tried the "What is Your Worldview" quiz:Existentialist81%Postmodernist63%Cultural Creative50%Modernist44%Materialist44%Idealist31%Romanticist25%Fundamentalist6%What is Your World View?created with QuizFarm.comI guess that given the choices, this seems right (and appropriately unfashionable.)
Jesse Taylor has some fun with Andrew McCarthy's transparently failed attempt to argue that the Constitution prohibits the filibuster of presidential appointees. It must be said that, at least, McCarthy's argument is a step up from most of the ad hoc attempts of conservative pundits;...
I feel a certain sympathy with Matt and Kevin on this issue. Although I'm not religious, I don't really give a damn about displays of the Ten Commandments, nativity scenes,.
Quiddity presents Rob's point in amusing format, although hopes that the pictures will allow Jonah Goldberg to understand it are probably in vain.
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
David Neiwert scares me.
Nice to see the Senators from my former and current state getting to the heart of the matter:May 12, 2005The Honorable Michael O. LeavittSecretaryUnited States Department of Health and Human.