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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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

NTA – the first Fox Television Network

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One of the great ironies of the story of American media is that when broadcast television was virtually the only game in town in terms of ho...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Urban Priviledge

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This is Joseph. Eschaton discusses cars and children : If most of your dailyish and regular baby needs (food, pharmacy, daycare if using...
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Friday, January 6, 2017

Yes, I do plan to keep harping on this

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As previously mentioned, recent events have reinforced my belief that journalism has gotten so bad that journalism has gotten so bad that it...
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Thursday, January 5, 2017

Cracked has some fun with the lottery

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I suspect pretty much everyone reading this blog already knows the facts laid out here, but it's still worth watching this just to spend...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

"The New Frontier In Stadium Ripoffs"

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This Deadspin piece from Drew Magary (which I somewhat reluctantly bleeped in a couple of places to keep our blog's PG rating) is a gre...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Blacker is the new black -- more adventures in intellectual property

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For the record (I started to say "just to be clear" but that didn't seem entirely appropriate), what Surrey NanoSystems and A...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Pushing privatization too far

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This is Joseph. This article from the New York Times , illustrates the problems of not paying for services via taxation: Corey Statham ...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

You can’t condemn the outcome and condone the process

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There are lots of people in this country (arguably a plurality) who are deeply disturbed by the results of this election. We have had more t...