Wednesday, September 30, 2020

More on omnicompetence

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Spending so much time on the subject of how money influences entertainment and entertainment journalism got me to thinking about Pauline Kae...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Revisiting a post from 2017

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New this morning - Senate Majority PAC is spending $$ in South Carolina for the first time, launching a $6.5 million campaign against @Li...
Monday, September 28, 2020

I have to admit, it’s kind of a pleasant change to be making fun of trivial things again…

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And you don’t get much more trivial than the Emmys. First off, any show with Eugene Levy or Catherine O’Hara is doing god’s work and havin...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Mono-causal explanations

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This is Joseph One thing that drives me a little nuts is how people want to have things happen due to a single cause. In most of life, thing...
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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Still working my way through Deadwood, though

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I was going through some old posts and I came across this reply on the subject of manipulating crime statistics. Or watch the Wire Wel...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

“There was only one good thing about the fire. It made people talk about the things that really concerned them.”

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Recent events  have got me thinking about the Ross MacDonald novel the Underground Man which takes place against the backdrop of a mass...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

West Coast wildfires -- Marketplace gets it right

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At first glance, this shouldn't be that difficult. You just have to hit the following points clearly and emphatically. 1. While climat...
Monday, September 21, 2020

And it's hard to get more boring than charcoal

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Sometimes it feels like the more practical and promising an approach to addressing global warming is, the less interest it generates. Person...
Friday, September 18, 2020

More important, none of the new tunneling machines are as cool as the Sigafoos.

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Today in Hyperloop non-developments The “incremental changes” currently being made in tunnelling technology will not be enough to generate...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

OK, I'll admit it. The post I was working on is taking a bit longer than expected.

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So here's a video recommendation to fill your time. Trailers from Hell is a mixed bag, sometimes diverting, often disappointing. John La...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The wildfire conversation we need to have right now.

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In the longer run the question of global warming is the biggest environmental threat we face, but in the immediate term here in the West, ou...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Welcome to the post-Gawker world

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One of the reasons why things got as fucked up as they are today is that the establishment, particularly the parts of the establishment that...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Given that we need to burn off an area of California roughly the size of Maine, this would seem to be an important finding

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The fires are coming . The question at this point is how to burn off these acres while minimizing the impact on public health and the econo...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Weekend Videos -- You need this

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Thursday, September 10, 2020

Labor Day Tweet -- 3 days too late

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The best Labor Day graph - worker productivity & compensation grew together when unions were strong, but when unions declined the rate...