Monday, December 4, 2023

Of all the silly scenarios floating around, "why not Newsom?" may be the silliest

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 Gavin Newsom did a good job with the debate. I wanted to get the positive out front and center at the beginning because there won't be...
Friday, December 1, 2023

Our annual Toys-for-Tots post

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A good Christmas can do a lot to take the edge off of a bad year both for children and their parents (and a lot of families are having a ba...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

To understand the NYT's good soldiers, you have to understand the paper's culture

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 Previously, I've referred to certain NYT journalists including Frank Bruni, Ezra Klein and Nate Cohn as "good soldiers." Thes...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Hypotheticals

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This is Joseph. I wanted to return to a very old topic. The use of hypotheticals to induce moral intuitions is often stated in a very styliz...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Bret Stephens is doing his job (and I don't mean that in a good way)

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Andrew Gelman has some issues with comments the NYT's Bret Stephens made back in June (you can check them out here), but I think some c...
Monday, November 27, 2023

We don't normally give candidates credit for floundering erratically on hot button issues, but the NYT grades Haley on a curve

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  This recent article provides quite a bit more fodder for critics of the paper's coverage of the third place candidate for the Republi...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Random Elon post-Thanksgiving thoughts

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This is Joseph.  If you are bored on on this quiet Friday between Thanksgiving and the weekend, then this is a simplistic but fun discussio...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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  If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hulu...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Do business schools make money?

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This is Joseph. There is a letter by Clifford Ando on the costs at the University of Chicago . This passage particularly struck me as intere...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

"Doom-saying without some operational plan to do something better is a luxury and a cheap one"

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Thoughts on inciting panic. We've spent quite a bit of time on how certain journalists have been trying to reconcile the knowledge that ...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Ten years ago at the blog -- thoughts on the myth of JFK.

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 The only thing I have to add is that the myth of the Kennedys brought us RFK jr.'s career. Saturday, November 23, 2013 ...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Simple solutions to complex problems

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This is Joseph. Something that always amazes me is how there is a brand of political solutions that suggest that this " one simple tric...
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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Post-dated foresight

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As we discussed last time , Josh Marshall wasn't too impressed with the latest piece of NYT political analysis. First a small digressio...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Josh Marshall appears to be joining the annoyed at Nate Cohn club

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... or perhaps more accurately the annoyed at Cohn's role at the New York Times.   The NYT has one of the strongest and most identifiabl...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Five years age at the blog -- Looking back through the archive and I came across this. Surprised I only used the Scheherazade line once.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018 There's still nothing there (and other lessons journalists refuse to learn abou...