Thursday, December 31, 2015

Happy New Year from Windsor McCay and Little Nemo

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Make it a good one.  Originally posted at Mippyville .
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

This could go poorly

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This is Joseph Seattle voted for extra money to improve transit service in Seattle via a special Seattle-only levee.  This seemed to be a ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

As currently implemented, MOOCs make no economic sense

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Dean Dad does, of course, have a dog in this fight, but his arguments are completely sound, particularly regarding the strangely neglected ...
Monday, December 28, 2015

I have serious doubts about the 1964 analogy, but ...

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If you have to make the analogy,  I think it works better with Cruz than Trump. The invaluable Robert Bateman provides the background : ...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Miami: the new Venice?

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This is Joseph I had known that Miami was in trouble due to the flat topography and the low distance above sea level.  What I had not real...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Principal agent problems

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This is Joseph. I am not usually all that bright but this new law confuses me : The second provision relates to a campaign by investors ...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Albert and Pogo's Christmas

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Before Doonesbury, there was Pogo. Throughout the Post-War era, Walt Kelly's sharp but gentle political satire (best summed up by Kelly...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Public subsidy of health care costs

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This is Joseph I was reading a fact checking article , and I encountered a very important set of cost estimates that bear repeating.  The ...
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In the war on Christmas, it was the evangelicals who took the first shot (literally)

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I grew up in the Bible Belt and spent all of my formative years arguing with fundamentalists so I feel comfortable with the following claim:...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Why I am unlikely to write a naked emperor post about Talking Points Memo

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At the risk of pointing out the obvious, Donald Trump managed to make most of the media's Very Serious People look awfully foolish , b...
Monday, December 21, 2015

"The world’s first $200 million STAR WARS fan-film"

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[Appeared previously in the pop culture blog .] I'm not planning to see the new Star Wars film (I'm assuming you've heard ab...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Our annual Toys-for-Tots post

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[Slightly modified from last year.] A good Christmas can do a lot to take the edge off of a bad year both for children and their parents...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Believe it or not, I was working on a post arguing that mainstream journalism had declined in quality when this came up

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[Update: the message appears to be getting through, at least to public editor Margaret Sullivan .] There is no publication in the country,...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Fall flashback -- If I were writing it today I'd make more of Romano's title -- "This is the way Trump ends"

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[I wrote this back in September. It got lost in the confusion until I started digging through the ever-growing draft pile. Apologies for the...

I really don't snack that much

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From Ken Levine :