Friday, August 12, 2022

J.D. Vance: David Brooks doing Hee-Haw cosplay

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Before we get to Vance, here's a bit of relevant personal history. My grandparents on my father's side had a family farm in the Rio ...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

A few late night thoughts on recent events and the state of the Grand Old Party

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1. The counter-intuitive take is usually wrong. That's why we have it. If the intuitive was wrong most of the time, natural selection wo...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

"That’s not the way any of this works…"

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[Meant to post something about this a month ago but things have been hectic] That’s not the way any of this works… https://t.co/NLihkmb1Lr ...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Tuesday Tweets special edition

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Bad night for "Fox is turning on Trump" people. pic.twitter.com/SO5D0cnyOy — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 9, 2022 I had pl...
Monday, August 8, 2022

More on the politics of protecting Social Security -- the Washington Post weighs in

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Opinion | Republicans are coming after Social Security. Democrats, take note. - The Washington Post https://t.co/phuujXX4OX — Norman Ornste...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Ten years ago at the blog -- We've been banging this particular drum for a long time

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  Saturday, August 25, 2012 Megafires, incentives and the inactivity bias One of the recurring themes of m...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Thursday Tweets

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Today in undeleted texts news. Some insurrectionist trivia for you: Roger Stone reportedly introduced Alex Jones to Trump and arranged for ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Remember when we said the data was thin? Well, it's getting a little thicker

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Very quick addition to our political implications of Dobbs thread. Just to recap... In May, we argued that the conventional wisdom was under...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

We have a winner in the 2022 high weirdness category

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This one really does have everything...     Conspiracies      Reverse-aging technology      International Qanon      Trump waiting in the wi...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Tale of two fires

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This is strange. It's almost as if what scientists and forestry professionals have been telling us for the past 50 years about active st...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Six years ago at the blog: We should have paid more attention to the right-wing's reaction to those Planned Parenthood "sting" videos

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To be honest, I'd forgotten all about this story until I came across this old post. Friday, July 22, 2016 Wh...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Thursday Tweets

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Who are the urban planners working on NEOM? How much acid do they take? Maybe a daily microdose situation. Are they having fun or is it a &...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

History of terrible ideas

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This is Joseph. This amazing tweet  has been commented on by both Dmitry Grozoubinski  and Eschaton . Here is the tweet, which, to be honest...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

What if Trump's Social Security and Medicare stand was never that big a deal to begin with

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 [Note: David Weakliem recently looked at the actual data on this going back to the eighties. Check out his analysis here .] As alluded to r...
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Monday, July 25, 2022

The data are thin but still worth keeping an eye on

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A couple of months ago, we did a post prompted by this Nate Cohn NYT piece where we talked about draconian anti-abortion bills being propo...