Archive for December, 2008
So this was the headline from the Think Progress blog yesterday afternoon
Bolton: Gaza Crisis Means We Should Attack Iran Now
We are pretty clearly at the point where it makes more sense for John Bolton to let us know when some event doesn’t demonstrate the need to bomb Iran. As it stands now we can safely [...]
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Tags: Bomb Iran, Iran, John Bolton
Modern Milgram Experiment
This article about a professor reproducing the Milgram experiment is very interesting.
In 1963, Stanley Milgram, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale, published his infamous experiment on obedience to authority. Its conclusion was that most ordinary people were willing to administer what they believed to be painful, even dangerous, electric shocks to innocent people [...]
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Tags: Stanley Milgram
Fake Singers
In general these Yahoo blogs are pretty unreadable, but I thought this one discussing Kanye West’s inability to sing was half way interesting.
Kanye, however, broke the cardinal rule of bad singing. He stepped outside of his preapproved vocal zone.
No one expects Kanye to sing. In fact, no one wants Kanye to sing, because we know [...]
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Tags: Kanye West
Potemkin Free Agent Offer Sheets
I’ve long been of the opinion that about half the reporting done on the Washington Nationals by the DC area media is essentially propaganda. Today were treated to the news that Nationals are gaining respect as a serious contender or something by offering 160 million to Mark Teixeira.
By approving one contract offer earlier [...]
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Tags: Mark Teixeira, Nationals, Washington Nationals
Aided and Abetted
Headline reads:
“Did Madoff Act Alone in Fraud Scheme? Investors Doubt It
I’m gonna go out on a limp here and say he didn’t act alone. Lots of people lined up around block to give him their money.
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Tags: Madoff
Back in the Day (Star Wars)
Once upon a time a co-worker showed me and another colleague a blog and tired to impress us of it’s importance because it had 40,000 blog hits.
WOW!!! 40,000 hits!!!
I pointed out that the blog in question was mostly about Star Wars, which I think is a natural advantage in the world of blogging.
Long story [...]
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Tags: Attack of the Clones, George Lucas, George Lucas Sucks, Luke Skywalker, Star Wars, Stars Wars Sucks
When reading this passage in today’s Mike Wise sports column it was hard not to question if Mike Wise actually watches the Redskins play their games.
meritocracy
We can talk about why 280-pound Mike Sellers, a fullback whose vertical leap is probably measured with a Metro card, was allowed to go airborne on third and goal [...]
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Tags: Mike Sellers, Mike Wise, Redskins
I saw this humorous comment Brad Delong’s blog earlier today
Stupidest Man Alive Contestant: Neo-Hooverite Greg Mankiw
For his suggestion on Squawk Box that we shouldn’t have the government spend too much money now b/c it will “crowd out” private investment! As though there is private investment left to crowd out!
Somebody, revoke this guy’s tenure. Take [...]
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Tags: Economy, Gregory Mankiw, Stock Market
Well If Bush Did the Crime…
People have a fairly good grasp of why spying on people without warrants is a problem, but I don’t think the full ramifications are clear to people. Sure domestic spying could lead to abuse, but name the victims? Show that they’ve been harmed? It’s harder. Here’s what’s at stake.
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Tags: Crimes of George Bush, FISA Compromise, George W Bush, Guantanamo Bay, Probable Cause
Even Stupider a Few Months Later
A while back I wrote about the below clip where Newt Gingrich proposes dump oil from the strategic reserve to lowering gas prices and teach those evil speculators a lesson.
As you can read I didn’t think this was such a bright idea back then, but I think it manages to [...]
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Tags: Newt Gingrich, Oil, Stratetgic Oil Reserve
The Washington Post says that the stock market went because the National Bureau of Economic Research says we’ve been a recession for over a year.
I know financial reporting is notoriously bad and the markets aren’t logical, but does that really seem like a logical reason for the market to do down? We already knew [...]
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Tags: Economy, Recession
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