Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Another entry in the Annals of Bad Ideas

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This is Joseph From Slate : An anonymous elector told Politico that the House election that would result from a Trump Electoral College ...
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Monday, November 21, 2016

One more for the lexicon: Curse of the First Model

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This applies to a wide range of contexts, but, just to get the conversation started, let's say you're doing targeted marketing. You ...
Friday, November 18, 2016

And no, we are not going to talk about the movie version

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I have a pet theory that you can get some of the best insights into a period, not from the serious novels and plays of the era, but from goo...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

With all this talk of moon bases and Mars missions

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The unique conditions of the Post-war Era, tremendous optimism and prosperity balanced by Cold War anxiety got us to the moon. Space enthusi...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Cracked.com: " Why Hollywood Can Lose Billions & Still Make Terrible Movies"

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One of these days we ought to do a deep dive into dysfunctional corporate decision-making, but for now I think the missing piece in the expl...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Terrestrial superstation blogging – – MGM's the Works

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[The over-the-air television industry continues to show remarkably strong and steady growth both in revenue and in number of stations (the l...

On the plus side, it's an industry disruptor from a visionary CEO

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Monday, November 14, 2016

I'm just going to post videos till I get my head around things

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More thoughts on the economy

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This is Joseph: From the Guardian : Median family income is  lower  now than it was 16 years ago, adjusted for inflation. Workers withou...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

Talking Points Memo

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This is Joseph It might seem to be a very odd time to subscribe to Talking Points Memo; I did so on Tuesday, only after the subscriber dri...

"Click"

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The Windblown Hare is not one of the great Looney Tunes -- McKimson and Foster were never on the studio's A-team -- but at 5:20 you w...

Prehistory of the TED talk

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At least he's not using PowerPoint.
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Post-election pondering

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This is Joseph I had been thinking of writing something like this piece by Matt Yglesias , but he seems to have bounced back faster and sa...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

More post-apolitical posts

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Admittedly, a television producer supporting a Democrat is not particularly surprising, but, as mentioned before, the Donald Trump campaign ...

It's important to remember the good moments as well

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Joe Tone writing for the Washington Post : But Vega and other voters said that at least in this swath of suburban Dallas – in the dense...