Monthly Archive: November 2014
Submitted For Your Approval…
Major Zed looks at the sausage made by Jonathan Gruber and asks us to read the list of ingredients that have recently come to light.
How to Succeed at Business Without (kind of) Even Trying
If you’re looking for meaningful work that pays well, chances are you’re doing it wrong.
Try this method instead.
I am building a 63 foot ocean voyaging catamaran in my driveway.
My wife says she’d much rather have me spend the winter building a boat in the driveway than picking fights on the internet.
Hive Mind Career Advice: Starting My Own Law Practice
Inspired by Burt Likko, Saul DeGraw considers the perils of opening up his own Law Practice
A Meathead Watches Gilmore Girls (“Kiss and Tell” and “Love And War And Snow”)
Notes One of these two episodes is enough to make me absolutely lose my mind. But which one? Will be it the story of Rory’s first kiss? Or will it be Lorelai’s absolutely insane...
Good doctors don’t trash-talk their patients
According to Slate, doctors everywhere use slang to dehumanize their most difficult patients. Russell begs to differ.
Models and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Hanley gets on his high horse, or perhaps it’s just a big mule, and explains why 2008 proved nothing.
An Example of the Motte and Bailey Doctrine
The motte-and-bailey rhetorical technique seems like a good one to be able to recognize.
Talk to Me Like I’m Stupid: “The sky is (not) falling!” Edition
Help me understand: Are we in bad times or boom times, economically speaking?
And why is it that those here who argue hardest that we should tear the current system down are the ones saying “boom,” and vice-versa?
Are we shocked or Are we bored?
The latest pop culture debate involves Nicki Minaj’s new video. The video involves a large amount of Nazi meets S&M meets Superhero imagery. Salon’s Erin Keane correctly calls this out as “best as selective...
A Meathead Watches Gilmore Girls (“Cinnamon’s Wake” and “Rory’s Birthday Parties”)
Notes I should probably be titling things Gilmore girls since that’s the show’s official title, but I hate how it looks in the header. That lower case “g” is, frankly, maddening. “Cinnamon’s Wake” Get it? Like...
Re-coupling Productivity and Wages: A Post-Election Bleg for the Hive Mind
The best post-election analysis for Democrats has come from Josh Marshall at TPM. Unfortunately, that same analysis leads to some difficult, hard-to-answer questions about re-coupling productivity and wages.
And so I turn those questions over to you, dear reader.
Is the Advertising Fit to Print?
Saul DeGraw wonders about the subtext of fretting about 1 percent advertising.
Are You Being Represented?
This fun little tool tells you how many members of Congress share your demographic(s). Selecting an answer for each of the given choices, I find that there are 28 members of Congress who, like...
