Thursday, May 11, 2017

Charles Pierce continues to hammer away at the differences between 1974 and 2017

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We've been making the point for ages now that, while the legacies of Goldwater and Watergate are important, the analogies to today are d...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

"Why doesn't anybody have enough anymore?"

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One of the questions we've been discussing on and off for a while now is how the Republican Party has changed since Watergate, and what ...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Information from hacking scandals

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This is Joseph. I assume everyone has read Nate Silver's take on the Comey letter by now . In that context, Josh Marshall has a very...
Monday, May 8, 2017

Trying to imagine the pitches that get turned down...

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One of these days, we need to have a serious conversation about all of the Soylents and the Juiceros. We need to think about the opportunity...
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Friday, May 5, 2017

Preexisting conditions

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This is Joseph It looks like preexisting conditions may be back as a way to increase the costs of health insurance , and this is a bad th...

I have a small confession...

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 For an embarrassingly long time, I thought that "epitome" and ep-i-tome were two different words.

The Bret Stephens story is about more than climate change denial

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The conversation has gotten muddled and off-topic on both sides (which is not to say that both sides are equally wrong, just that most of th...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Just substitute "dropping out of college" for "buying lottery tickets" and Peter Thiel for the stick figure...

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On a related note, I've been arguing for years that a winning lottery ticket is the world's best investment (though there is...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

PhD Vouchers

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This is Joseph. Frances Woolley asks about why we don;t have vouchers for PhD programs .  As a part of this discussion she points out the ...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

ESPN and the content bubble

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It is easy to forget that, though it does occupy a unique niche, sports is part of the entertainment economy. For years now, we have been ...
Monday, May 1, 2017

No-excuse charters and collateral damage

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From Valerie Strauss writing for the Washington Post : “College or Die.” That’s the motto of the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School...
Friday, April 28, 2017

That's right, a Rube Goldberg machine as narrative medium

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From Gizmodo's Andrew Liszewski : Biisuke Ball’s Big Adventure is actually a sequel to an earlier Rube Goldberg machine featuring the...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

All of the great ones make sacrifices

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I'm planning to come back and connect this to some larger points, but for now I decided to get a quick post in to beat the Gizmodo rush....

Singapore Health Care Costs

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This is Joseph Ezra Klein has a very good Vox article on US versus Singaporean health care systems in terms of health care cost control...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

More on the possible WGA strike

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[Thanks to the scheduling function, my posts can be out of date before they even show up.] Ken Levine has another interesting and somewha...