Monday, October 6, 2025

Guess what I got in the mail this weekend?

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    Registered voters in California just got their ballots for the upcoming special election on Prop 50. As of a couple of weeks ago, the pr...
Friday, October 3, 2025

To address the oversupply of soybeans, RFK Jr. announced that the Health Department has developed new crackers combining the legume with lentils for a tasty and nutritious snack.

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Soybeans — adding insult to injury, and then piling on more injury.     Jesus Mesa writing for Newsweek : A photographer’s snapshot of Treas...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

West Coast Stat Views Correction: it turns out August wasn't the worst possible time to start playing Kriegspiel with the US economy

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We made that assertion in this post, but it turns out that doing it during a government shutdown is probably even worse. From Allison Morro...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Making sense of the senseless

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While almost everyone agrees that we have never had an administration like this one, very few are adjusting their thinking accordingly. Even...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The Iger Sanction*

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We spent most of last week discussing the Jimmy Kimmel suspension and its aftermath. Much of that discussion was based on speculation about ...
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Monday, September 29, 2025

That was quick

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 From the Hollywood Reporter: There Goes the Jimmy Kimmel Boycott: Nexstar, Sinclair Fold as Late Night Show Returns The local TV giants bac...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Weekend Videos -- Would-Be Tyrants and Real-Life Giants

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This is an extraordinary piece of television. It is, almost without fail, pitch perfect. It acknowledges the gravity of the moment while kee...
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Back on the cautionary beat

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If you listen to Marketplace, read the FT, or follow lots of econ and finance nerds on Bluesky, this is probably old news to you. If not... ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Kimmel part 2 -- the business

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Yesterday, we talked about the politics of the Kimmel suspension in return. Today we’re going to focus on the business side, something I fee...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Kimmel Part 1 -- the politics

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Well, that didn't take long.  Within the course of a week, ABC totally capitulated to threats from the FCC and right-wing station owners...
Monday, September 22, 2025

I was going to start a two-part post on the Kimmel suspension, but given the news, I though I'd hold off

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I work remotely so this probably wouldn't be as effective. Apparently on Christian tiktok they're predicting a rapture on Tuesday. S...
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Friday, September 19, 2025

Fill in the _____

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The following is from a YouTube transcript of this  Patrick Boyle video , cleaned up by ChatGPT, but with one word removed to make things in...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Bluesky, Dark Clouds

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[Picking up where our last post left off, this will give you some idea of what my Blue Sky feed looks like recently, at least among the econ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

My Bluesky

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 Recently, there’s been another wave of think pieces arguing either that BlueSky is dying, or that BlueSky is thriving but rotting away libe...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

The tech right and fascism—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen have been checking this Overton window for years.

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And for the most part, no one seemed to care. It was this exchange on Fox News about the forced detention and possible euthanasia of the hom...