Yearly Archive: 2009
This is not a persuasive rejoinder to rigorous sports analysis
Peter King, being snide: There are many reasons why I like the Patriots, but the biggest is that all the statisticians of the world got together the other day and ran all the Pats/Jets...
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Afghanistan?
Spencer Ackerman points me to this Tom Ricks post on David Kilcullen’s speech re: Afghanistan. Ricks on Kilcullen’s central argument: His [Kilcullen’s] bottom line is that there are two real options in Afghanistan: Either...
Scary
Barry Ritholtz has a table comparing the bull market rallies in 1982 and 2009. One has the support of sound fundamentals and one does not. See for yourselves.
More Blawgging
The Legal Theory Blog takes aim at two of the most meaningless, empty and (unfortunately) frequently used terms in conservative political discourse when constitutional law is involved: strict constructionism and judicial activism.
I Think I Just Threw Up in My Mouth a Little Bit
It’s tough to disagree with Von’s assessment of She Who I Shall Not Name’s likely impact on the 2012 Presidential race:
While you guys were talking about a certain politician…
…I was messing around with the “in b flat” project. It’s sort of like playing with sound loops, except other people made them and put them on YouTube. Enjoy your ten-minute collaborative tune! [via...
Dream Job
For Deadheads, at least: The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) as Archivist for...
Son of The Wire
Matt Yglesias says: What’s really depressing to me about the current TV landscape isn’t so much that we haven’t seen another Wire-quality show as it is that we haven’t even seen a serious effort...
Personal Politics
Since the wattage of Palin-mania is currently at full blast, causing rolling blog brown outs, I think it’s worth stepping back for a second and discussing what is and isn’t valuable information when studying...
Maybe credit cards don’t encourage spending
An interesting counterpoint to the David Ramsey “no credit” creed I linked to below:
The Monks of Mount Athos
I was lucky enough to visit Mount Athos when my parents lived in Thessaloniki, and the trip has stayed with me for a long time. National Geographic has an article on the monasteries and...
Overcompensation or necessary correction?
Megan McArdle has a fascinating article on anti-debt evangelist David Ramsey, whose advice on personal finance sounds pretty darn sensible.
quote for the day II
“Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin’s unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning – specifically her fantastic story of her fifth pregnancy – we feel it’s...
Gay marriage and religious liberty ctd.
“E.D., please note, is a supporter of same-sex marriage, and believes the Catholic Church is very wrong to oppose it. But he’s starting to see that gay marriage really is a threat to religious...
The Acid Test for Conservative Populism
A few weeks ago, The Nation had a great editorial on breaking up the banks: The heart of our predicament is the Too Big to Fail (TBTF) problem. Banks have grown so large that...
my thoughts exactly
Commenter “SmartHippo” on the Sherdog.com mixed martial arts forum: My feelings towards MMA are kind of similar to my feelings toward metal. I love metal, and I respect it. I do, in one sense,...
