Friday, September 30, 2016

A system with multiple veto points

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This is Joseph. From Kevin Drum : As for third parties, I'll say only this: in 1980, when I was 22, I voted for John Anderson. That ...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

How the sugar lobby (effectively) killed RC Cola

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Having recently broached the subject of the sugar industry's practice of subsidizing research that had a way of working out well for ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

What almost everyone gets wrong about Uber and driverless cars

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From Rick Newman Self-driving cars are the company’s holy grail. Morgan Stanley estimates human drivers account for half the cost of a rid...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

The coolest spot in town

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“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl...
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This is what I meant by "a very lonely position"

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As we were saying... It is almost as if Spayd thinks it's 2000, when the NYT could set the conventional wisdom, could decide which nar...
Monday, September 26, 2016

“Transformative” remains a word better suited to Hogwarts than to the Harvard Business School

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The thinking of business writers has become so muddled and, in places, so overtly mystical that the important fundamental drivers are comple...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Damn, we have been hammering at this one for a long time.

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This is a reprint of a post from 2012 discussing the lengths James Stewart of the New York Times went to portray Paul Ryan's budget as ...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

"Never trust a superintendent. They'll lie to your face"

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In case you missed it, this is definitely the week's best heroic lunch lady story . PITTSBURGH — A cafeteria employee says she has qui...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

"Why do you hate us for caring too much?" – – Dispatches from a besieged institution

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Public Editor From Wikipedia The job of the public editor is to supervise the implementation of proper journalism ethics at a newspaper...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

“And now the piano stylings of Richard Nixon”

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I know this bothers me more than it should but I wish journalists would start coming up with some new  and better examples. I was listening ...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Yes, things are better

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A lot of my Democratic friends (especially those over 40) had a bad feeling about the nomination of Hillary Clinton, not because they had a ...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Sugar versus Fat: which is worse for your heart?

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This is Joseph. Obviously this report in JAMA Internal Medicine is alarming.  The full abstract is: Early warning signals of the coronar...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Two must-read articles on the state of California's charter schools with commentary by Charles Pierce

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From the Los Angeles Times' Howard Blume : A former local charter school operator has agreed to pay a $16,000 fine for misconduct tha...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Pension Funds: a never ending saga

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This is Joseph. It is worth noting that pension plans are always going to be a regulated industry.  There is a huge amount of trust in giv...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

A reminder that the New York Times is not a monolith

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It is often convenient and sometimes extraordinarily helpful to anthropomorphize institutions. When we talk about what a political party ...