I loved this XKCD comic. It’s a very elegant distillation of what’s become a blogger and pundit favorite: if you study X instead of Y, you are a fool. Never mind that our system is slouching comprehensive failure; whoever you are, you should feel bad for studying whatever you studied. If you’re unemployed, underemployed, or …
Archives for May 7, 2012
In which I post another diary that boils down to “What He Said”
If you’re not reading the Rude Pundit, well, you’re just missing some of the funniest, most incisive commentary on the correct side of the internet. Some choice excerpts: In re Newt Gingrich ending his “campaign for President”: And so it was that on May 2, 2012, one of the most disgusting, spitting pustules in the …
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Help Take Amendment 1 Down
Assorted ninnies and white supremacists are attempting to deface the North Carolina Constitution with anti-gay graffiti via Amendment 1. There’s already no marriage equality in NC, but Amendment 1 is designed to keep same-sex couples in the back of the bus. Here’s Balloon Juice commenter Jibeaux: I assume if you’re reading B-J and live in …
Are there no workhouses, etc.
I know less about economics than I do about fashion, which is to say, nothing. But I can usually spot a bamboozle in the hatching phase. Here are two items on the economy that appeared within the last week. First up from a Reuters business piece: Disability rolls may be holding economy back Those receiving …
I Love It When a Plan Comes Together
Over the weekend, Ron Paul won Maine and Nevada, gaining 20 of 24 delegates in Maine, and 22 of 25 in Nevada. In addition to the chaos that Paul will cause at the national convention, consider how this makes the average Republican caucus-goer feel. You make a good faith effort to vote, you leave the …
Krugthulu Wakes!
This is something of a grand blogospheric circle something-or-other, but via Delong, I learn that Krugman learned from our own DougJ of Jacob Weisberg’s dismay that the aforesaid Krugman had the gall to be both right about lots and lots of stuff — and to point this fact out rather bluntly to those who persist …
Early Morning Open Thread: Sleep on This
It’s either too late or too early to post this, but as a result of Kathryn Schulz’s NYMag review, I may have to buy a copy of Till Roenneberg’s book Internal Time:Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired… Among species, we humans are to time what Polish villagers have long been to place: …
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