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Meditations in an Emergency
Fun facts: if Joan Holloway from “Mad Men” were a real person, she would be two years younger than David Broder. Pete Campbell would be four years older than Marty Peretz.
I recommend following the Paul Krugman/Brad DeLong tag-team smackdown of the Superfreakaonomics duo. There’s something profound to be said about it all, but I’m too lazy to be precise and not drunk enough to let it rip.
Another open thread. Sorry we’re lazy this weekend. I don’t like this time of year.
Update. Miss Farrell scares the hell out of me.
Update update. Felix Salmon has more on Freakonomics.
Update update update. Felix Salmon’s original review of Freakonomics is brilliant, one of the best blog posts I’ve ever read anywhere. It’s difficult to summarize, but here’s one of the last paragraphs:
At heart, Freakonomics is not a book about economics at all: it’s a book about a hero who can ask the right questions and uncover the truth. Once you’ve read it, you’ll know lots of interesting facts you didn’t know before. But it won’t make you stop and think (stopping and thinking is the job of the hero), and it certainly won’t “literally redefine the way we view the modern world,” as the jacket copy has it. You know how that crack gang was just like McDonald’s? Well, this book is too. You finish it off quickly, but end up vaguely dissatisfied: all the added sweeteners and calories serve to mask the fact that there’s very little protein or nutritional value.
Sunday Night Open Thread (Secret Blockquote Fix!)
Because the Esteemed Proprietor is off watching football and the Lexicon is still un-editable, I will share with y’all the Michael Gass Memorial Multi-Paragraph Blockquoting Fix:
Three Dots. Also known as “an ellipsis”. Used between every paragraph you want to link together in your blockquote, like so:
The ellipsis is a most useful tool, when properly applied.
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As long as the commentor remembers to add those three dots to the cut’n’paste quotations.
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Also: FYWP!
No jokes yet about Tunch luring Lily into the hot-air balloon yet?
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Just Another Day in Paradise
Woke up, accidentally put ground red pepper in my coffee instead of cinnamon, did not notice until I took a swig. Tunch ate so much he threw up what can only be described as a cat food cud on the futon. Went to the kitchen to get a damp rag to clean it up, came back and it was gone and Lily was smacking her lips, and then the toilet overflowed.
If I had not had so much coffee (sans red pepper) I would just go back to bed and start over.
CBS Sunday Morning
Have at it.
Tom Coburn Is Exactly Like Martin Luther King
…in that people criticized MLK too.
That’s some quality hoekstroika right there.
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Give ’em enough thread
I thought I’d sneak a nice catch-all open threader in before John drops the dreaded “CBS Sunday Morning” open thread on us.
Here’s a question I’d like someone to answer for me: When people say there are no atheists in foxholes does that mean that no atheist would get into a foxhole in the first place or that the experience of being in a foxhole would make you turn religious?
And in keeping with a recent theme, here’s one of my favorite 70s videos.
Coke’s a hell of a drug.