Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Media consolidation story of the day

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Libby Watson writing for Gizmodo : The Wall Street Journal reports today that Verizon is exploring a merger with Charter Communication...
Monday, January 30, 2017

"Where the rules are made up and the points don't matter"

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There is a popular comedy improv game where the performers are required to ad lib a conversation made up entirely of questions. These do no...
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Friday, January 27, 2017

Robot Origami

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Sometimes, when I'm feeling pessimistic, knowing that people are out there coming up with things like this makes me feel better.
Thursday, January 26, 2017

"Cult of the Savvy " – this is one you need to read

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I have been meaning to write something on Jay Rosen's thesis for a while now, but I have a piece I'm working on about Straussian com...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Beyond the hyperbole barrier

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Occasionally you come across an idea so absurd that it is literally impossible to top. It defies mockery by exaggeration because you simply ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

We've talked about this before, right?

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By now, we've done literally thousands of posts, and, to be perfectly honest, it has gotten to the point where I tend to lose track, but...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Pauline Kael on Hollywood Leftism

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The initial impetus for digging up this passage from Kael's essay came from a recent Matt Novak post , but as soon as I started rereadin...
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Friday, January 20, 2017

It's going to be a long weekend

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Some soothing music might be a good idea. I'd recommend starting with Debussy.
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Kevin Drum on a pox on both houses style journalism

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This is Joseph. Mark Evanier points us to this quote from Kevin Drum : So what is Donald Trump going to do about that? Unfortunately, t...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Framing the policy

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This is Joseph. From Chris Dillow : A wage ceiling allows lackeys of the rich to whine that Labour hates the well-off. We should reframe...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

The most troubling part of a troubling story

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In case you haven't heard, Fiat Chrysler has just been caught engaging in practices that look disturbingly like what we saw from Volkswa...
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Monday, January 16, 2017

As we've been saying for a very long time...

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The other day I was checking the TV listings had added a new subchannel, one that turned out to be an interesting development in the over-th...
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Friday, January 13, 2017

"So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

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This comment by Kaleberg reminded me of just how unlikely the triumphant return of the Cracked brand would have seemed forty or so years ag...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

The law of unintended consequences

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This is Joseph One of the reasons that social norms are important is situations like this one : Needless to say, this is why Democratic ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

They lose money on every ride but they make it up in volume

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On one level, ride sharing is a good idea -- using smartphones to connect passengers with underutilized drivers has potential to provide sig...
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