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The Good Life
It’s time I got back, and I don’t even know how I got off the track
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Tags: Weezer
Still Boycott Whole Foods
So regarding the anti-boycott open letter in the comments section (Which I won’t link to or quote) I wanted to say a few things
Points 1-3 are attempts to build a false equivalency between discrimination based on political beliefs and boycotting a company for political reasons. Whole Foods customers are under moral obligation to maintain their [...]
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Big Picture on Climate Change
One thing that’s daunting about working on Climate Change is the multitude of factors which you need to consider. Crafting and sustaining legislation to address Climate Change will take place of most if this century and actually stabilizing the world’s carbon trajectory involves coordinating the entire global economy. So when you talk about the big [...]
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Tags: Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
Remember When…
George W. Bush had the Democrats worried about Republicans attracting Hispanic voters?
It wasn’t hype. W spoke fluent Spanish, had middle of the road views on immigration, and appointed a bunch of Hispanics to high profile jobs.
The whole theory that Republicans are a bunch of evil geniuses is going down like a lead zeppelin. Seriously, [...]
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Tags: GOP, Hispanics, Latinos, Politics, Republican Party, Sonia Sotomayor
Credit Card Company Collusion
There is a distinctly threatening tone in this NY Times article on credit cards fees.
Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going [...]
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Tags: American Express, Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Card Fees, Credit Card Industry
Here is a Matthew Yglesias post from earlier this week discussing carbon auctions and the compromises being made to pass the cap and trade bill
But let me take some time out to express outrage about one aspect of the change that doesn’t really have a huge environmental impact, the decision to give away the carbon [...]
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Tags: Carbon Auctions, Climate Change, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
… When the Nationals are this awful. Worst start in baseball, and hardly a bright spot in the whole mess. I know the season is just getting started and it’s probably more important that a small handful of players perform well then the whole team, but seriously this is embarrassing. We’re well past the point [...]
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Tags: Washington Nationals
Blogged Closed For Tax Season
Hoping to return by tomorrow. My taxes aren’t that complicated (knock on wood) so I should return tomorrow.
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Brilliant Noise
Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
These are real images of the sun.
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Tags: NASA, Naval Research Lab, Semiconductor
Incidentally Tim Geithner is well on his way to being the least popular man in America not named Dick Cheney or George W. Bush. Both Conservatives and Liberals are lining up to throw him and his 1.5 trillion dollar bank plan under a bus already.
He’ll ultimately be judged by his policy proposals in the [...]
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Tags: Bank Rescue, Tim Geithner
Daschle
Couple of thoughts about Daschle withdrawing his nomination for HHS Secretary.
If you thought Daschle was a decent person (as I did) before this, then you probably think he’s still a decent person. There’s sad element when somebody is destroyed by something relatively minor.
Anytime a non-scumbag goes down, there is a chance their [...]
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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
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