Via the Sultan of Shrill, the comedy stylings of Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy:This package is partly based on the belief that government spending is required to stimulate the economy because private spending would be insufficient. The focus on government solutions is particularly disappointing given its...
A very tragic story, of course (which also occasioned some pretty creepy journalism.) I found her work in Schrader's odd-but-compelling Patty Hearst especially, well, compelling. See also Glenn and Lissa.
Pain rejects half of Alaska's stimulus money.Gov. Sarah Palin just told reporters that she鈥檚 accepting only 55 percent of the federal economic stimulus money being offered to Alaska. The governor.
Japan's new aircraft carrier helicopter carrying destroyer was commissioned yesterday. Hyuga can carry up to eleven helicopters, and may in the future be able to carry the F-35B VSTOL fighter. But don't call Hyuga an aircraft carrier. In other maritime news, there is some confusion about...
Ezra notes that "it's really worth distinguishing what are two separate arguments. The first is that we can't claw back the bonuses. That's what outside counsel told AIG Chairman Edward.
Last reminder for filling out your tourney bracket.League: Lawyers, Guns and MoneyPassword: zevon
If you're in the market for a new Zen koan, you might reflect for a moment on the question of whether TIDOS Yankee writing for Pajamas Media is more or less inane than TIDOS Yankee writing for his own site. The fact that Bob Owens is,...
After noting a creepily misogynist passage from the book of the man taking over the Billy Kristol Chair in Applied Bullshit at the New York Times, Brad DeLong offers some.
When the whole "going Galt" meme got rolling a couple of weeks ago, I had no idea to what this phrase was alluding, possibly because, to the best of my.
Now that I'm more or less finished with my taxes, I can proclaim without reservation that I have, for the 34th consecutive year, successfully managed to keep my income below $250000. Take that, Barack Hussein Hitler Lenin Osama! I can only hope that society will realize...
Even for Maureen Dowd, repeating idiotic right-wing rube-running about how the politicians sometimes...use a TelePrompter is lame beyond all reason. Even more shocking, however, L, G & M has learned.
While I see the logic, I also worry that if I banned laptop use in my classes I'd be deprived of the privilege of demanding that people look things up.