Dive into the archives.

• the dangers of burying facts

  Readers of the New York Times may have noticed an article about the alarming resurgence of polio in several areas of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; several immediately took to Facebook to complain that the US hasn’t been doing enough in the area of medical aid to less-developed nations. As ever, facts are rarely [...]

  21 Apr 2009 Politics, Science!; no comments. permalink   

• mmm. . . irony

  Do you like irony? Think the AP are being douche-barrels deserving to fall into oblivion with the rest of the modern newspaper industry? Then you’ll love the Obama poster kerfuffle!

  The Associated Press are trying to sue LA artist Shepard Fairey for his use of an AP photo to create his vaguely cultish (and [...]

  17 Apr 2009 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• thomas frank and selective naivete

  Thomas Frank writes another treatise from the the “if you don’t agree with me, you’re mentally unstable” school of thought that’s so popular on the left in today’s Wall Street Journal, about the sins of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R):

  08 Apr 2009 Politics; no comments. permalink   

• communists to cuba; anarchists* to somalia (a rant)

  The anarchists are back at it, with another protest at another G20 meeting. I continue to wonder: do they have any idea what anarchy is? Are they aware how unlikely the economic conditions that fattened their trust funds would have been under an anarchic system? And why are they still surprised when [...]

  01 Apr 2009 Politics; no comments. permalink   

• not getting any tamer

  One might wonder whether NY conservablogger Karol Sheinin is losing her snarky edge, what with her impending wedding and all. I submit this is not the case:
  NY Mag:
  The true legacy of Governor Eliot Spitzer is Governor David Paterson.

  Karol:
  Actually, no, it’s getting caught with hookers.

  03 Mar 2009 Politics, Telegram Metro (NYC); one comment. permalink   

• misunderestimating obama

  From tonight’s address to Congress:
  But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. Millions of jobs depend on it. Scores of communities depend on it. And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.

  The first internal combustion engine was designed in [...]

  25 Feb 2009 Economics, History, Politics; no comments. permalink   

• tech stifling we can believe in

  I hate to say I told you so, techhie and dynamist Obamaniacs, but: I told you so.
  President Obama plans to appoint current Federal Trade Commission member Jon Leibowitz to lead the agency, which partially enforces antitrust laws and has taken a recent interest in online advertising.
  . . .
  “Industry needs to do a better job of [...]

  24 Feb 2009 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• rick santelli’s capitalist rant

  He’s no Jim Mora (he actually makes sense), but CNBC’s longtime man in Chicago works up the crowd at the CBOT:

  (via Jeremy H)

  20 Feb 2009 Economics, Politics; one comment. permalink   

• quote of the day: israeli election edition

  It’s important, the Israelis are told, not to damage Palestinian confidence in the “peace process,” though it is difficult to see how such a process, which is to peace as Velveeta is to cheese, could be further damaged by hard men who have never kept any agreement they’ve made. The Israelis are told to restrain [...]

  10 Feb 2009 Politics, War & Peace; no comments. permalink   

• biting the hand that feeds you

  From the Economist this week:
  New York state’s comptroller said that BONUSES paid by Wall Street firms to their New York City employees (residents and commuters) fell by 44% in 2008, costing the state $1 billion in lost tax revenues and the city $275m.
  Finally, an end to the bonuses! The rich no longer getting richer [...]

  29 Jan 2009 Economics, Politics, Telegram Metro (NYC); one comment. permalink