Day: January 25, 2010

“It is inconceivable – repeat, inconceivable – to get a world recession.” IFRL-TLC-Scenery-24335965295_e6ecc7b7f3_o

“It is inconceivable – repeat, inconceivable – to get a world recession.”

Will January 25, 2010

The Washington Post assembles a list of the most spectacularly wrong predictions from the Davos Economic Forum.

The Best Conan Postmortem IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.llyn-y-cau-cader-idris-70

The Best Conan Postmortem

Will January 25, 2010

Like every other cynical 20-something, I admit to being temporarily enthralled by NBC’s late night wars. Michael...

The Boss Tweed-ization of national politics IFRL-NaPP-Space-robot-2256814_1920

The Boss Tweed-ization of national politics

Erik Kain January 25, 2010

“Reformers should be focusing on lifting limits on the flow of money from parties to candidates and...

Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025This ad showed up in my feed. It's a young man running for Governor of Colorado (so it most likely w…
Andrew Donaldson on Panamanicans: U.S. Troops in PanamaWas tempted to go with "Panamaniacs" here, to be honest...
David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Um, no. Literally none of what other people do is relevant to if a specific person committed a crime…
Dark Matter in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025This situation reminds me of the whole "U leaders don't deal with sex offenders" problem. The compli…
North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointOh I agree; I noted as such in my original comment. But I can't help but notice that all the stories…
Dark Matter in reply to Michael Cain on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Military spending is roughly half of that $1.6T discretionary spending I think Musk didn't review th…
Michael Cain in reply to Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Do those numbers put DOD and military spending done by other parts of the government in discretionar…
Michael Cain in reply to North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointTexas, and to a somewhat lesser extent Florida, build because they can sprawl. Where are the desirab…
Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”All federal discretionary spending combined is $1.6T. This includes what most of us view as primary…
North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointThat is a fair critique to a very broad blanket statement but Florida and Texas are, iirc, the large…