Wednesday, August 6, 2025

MACA: Make America China Again (OK, the "Again" doesn't really work but you try coming up with cute titles for fifteen years)

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Great Marketplace segment from Matt Levin on how a economy (in this case China's) functions when it can't trust its own government...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Josh Marshall on the value of credible data and on the cost of losing it

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Josh Marshall has a detailed and extremely well-thought-out reaction to the BLS firing on his Editor's Blog. The whole thing is essenti...
Monday, August 4, 2025

The worst possible time to start playing Kriegspiel with the US economy

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[First, a word about the admittedly obscure title . There is a chess variant where neither player gets to see the other player’s pieces. Whe...
Friday, August 1, 2025

A Letter from Tom Lehrer

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While looking through the blog archives to see what we'd written about Tom Lehrer, I came across this post from the excellent site Tech...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Eight years ago at the blog -- perhaps our most evergreen post

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 "A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know w...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

"Indeed, if you can’t wrestle with the heavy amount of absurd at the heart of our political moment you will simply be lost or be having an irrelevant conversation with other gatekeepers."

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Reporter: Are you considering a pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? Trump: I’m allowed to give her a pardon [image or embed] — Acyn ( @acyn.bsky.soci...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Musk : engineering :: Trump : deal-making

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We've hit this point before, but this is a good time to revisit it. Elon Musk’s fortune rests on his reputation as a “real-life Tony Sta...
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Monday, July 28, 2025

R.I.P. Tom Lehrer 1928-2025 (Part 2)

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 We wrote quite a bit about Lehrer here at the blog. This week we'll be revisiting some favorites.   Thursday, September 27, 2018 ...

R.I.P. Tom Lehrer 1928-2025 (Part 1)

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We wrote quite a bit about Lehrer here at the blog. This week we'll be revisiting some favorites. Friday, June 18, 2010 ...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Dan Froomkin discusses why Epstein is the only Trump scandal the mainstream press isn't afraid to cover

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     Yesterday I made a passing reference to the role that this being Republican-on-Republican violence made the story an acceptable target...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

A few quick thoughts on the latest Epstein news.

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Nicole Lafond writing for Talking Points Memo : By now you’ve maybe seen the news that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is, effectively, s...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

John Michael Osbourne 1948-2025

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 Ozzy Osbourne, as you probably heard, passed away this week. He had an extraordinarily long and successful career, produced lots of memorab...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The Talking Tina Fallacy

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 [If you want to get picky, that's Talky Tina.*] The Talking Tina fallacy is the tendency to ascribe sentience, emotions—and often super...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Checking in with LA weather. It’s nice.

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 Burbank.   I frequently feel the need to throw good news in because East Coast journalists will so gleefully report anything bad that happe...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

All so the son of a loony Silicon Valley billionaire can have his own studio.

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It’s easy to forget now, but for at least half of the 20th century, CBS had one of the premier news organizations in the country. People sti...