Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Josh Marshall eviscerated Ezra Klein, but he did miss one or two major organs

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Marshall is a common ground kind of guy so it is unusual for him to go after a colleague, particularly in one as respected as Klein without ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Libertarianism

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This is Joseph. This little chart has been making the rounds :  It is so incredibly naive about how the world would actually work. It basica...
Monday, February 19, 2024

To Russia, with Love

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As previously mentioned , the GOP has spent a couple of weeks being very nice to Vladimir Putin, between tossing Ukraine to the wolves, thre...
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Friday, February 16, 2024

Performers have been complaining about political correctness for a long time

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I have to confess I was never that big of a fan of Freberg. While clever, compared to his contemporaries Bob and Ray and the Goons, his mate...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Bothsides is an easy way to score points but ignore the main points

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This is Joseph. I am a bit puzzled at the recent discourse going into the next US presidential election. Here is Jon Stewart managing to cre...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

When threads collide...

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This New York Magazine profile hits lots of our old friends. There is, of course, Bill Ackman . Then there's Avi Loeb, formerly noted a...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

High-speed rail circa 1907

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An interesting look at how people looked at advances in transportation around the turn of the last century. From the 1907/03/09 Scientific ...
Monday, February 12, 2024

If your mental model of the 2024 far right doesn't address their infatuation with Putin, you need to go back to the drawing board.(told in tweets)

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(The far left tankies' continued loyalty is a topic for another day.) This is a good place to get up to speed on the interview itself....
Friday, February 9, 2024

Are you ready for some football (-related insane conspiracy theories)?

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A reminder that when you talk about politics in 2024 this is today's GOP. Johnson is not a fringe figure. He has millions of followers.....
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Breaking the rules with "one simple trick"

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This is Joseph. One under-rated part of the Donald Trump phenomenon is how he seems to be able to flout rules and norms rather aggressively....
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

If you want to save the planet, start by learning how to use your damned microwave

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Americans have a problem with solution phobia. We have become like children, fascinated with the toy weave just heard about but utterly disi...
Monday, February 5, 2024

Twelve years ago at the blog -- Amity and the Bunnies

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For a while there, Amity Shlaes was everywhere, from the Daily Show to Marketplace. More recently, her star seems to have faded somewhat wit...
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Friday, February 2, 2024

"Any time I misspell a word it's just because I have too much integrity to copy answers from the dictionary."

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 From XKCD  
Thursday, February 1, 2024

You notice how we haven't had an embarrassing UFO story for a while?

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That doesn't mean they haven't been happening. Ep. 51 It’s becoming obvious that the US government has made contact with nonhuman be...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Willy Wonka and the money-printing machine

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[more January IP blogging] I noticed this box of cereal the other day while shopping. My first thought was they are still squeezing money ...