Monday, January 10, 2022

Some thoughts on the career of Betty White

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 The older I get, the more interesting I find second acts.  White was a pioneering broadcaster -- Ken Levine argues she was literally the...
Friday, January 7, 2022

Damn, this has been sitting in the queue for a while.

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Fortunately (or unfortunately) they seem to have remained relevant. **STOCKS DOWN AS TRADERS FEAR THE GLOBAL SUPPLY OF GREATER FOOLS IS S...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

Policy that ignores the real poor

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This is Joseph. I was reading Slow Boring and was struck by this passage about student loan forgiveness: So while there are certainly lots ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Just to keep this top of mind...

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The NIMBY/YIMBY politics used to be simpler and tended to break fairly cleanly along progressive/reactionary lines. As the debate has shifte...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Simpsons > Good Will Hunting (mathematically speaking)

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Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg breaks down Math films & TV shows
Monday, January 3, 2022

Why I see SCOTUS packing as inevitable

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This is Joseph. I have, for a while, held the opinion that the US supreme court is almost certain to be packed. One thing that needs to be c...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Happy New Year's -- Little Nemo grows up

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Season's greetings from Windsor McCay. Apologies for the formatting. Copy and paste for the full effect. (I hate blogger.)
Friday, December 31, 2021

So would this be Happy Halloween een^297? *

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* You do realize I just made up the number of days to Halloween, right?
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Why the right to a lawyer is so important

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This is Joseph. I was talking to Mark and this video came up. One of the reasons why having a lawyer is so important is that mere civilians ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Extrapolating out of range: education edition

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This is Joseph. Matt Yglesias had a post on the effects of closing schools on learning : I think that if at any time pre-Covid someone had s...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

The biggest problem in California right now is that we don't have enough fires

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It's raining as I type this, snowing not that far from here. We've gotten lucky in the past couple of weeks and we are supposed to h...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Against feral disinformation, the very liars themselves contend in vain.

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Feral Disinformation Without feral disinformation and the cultivation of the lunatic fringe, we never would have had a Trump nomination. T...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Merry Christmas from Little Nemo

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Friday, December 24, 2021

"Albert and Pogo's Christmas" by Walt Kelly

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Thursday, December 23, 2021

Perfect last-minute gift idea

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Jemima Kelly of FT Alphaville has just the thing. Excited for this new venture, which combines my passion for art and commitment to help...