Day: August 30, 2016

Wednesday! albums

Wednesday!

Jaybird August 30, 2016

Do you miss the Bee Gees? Sure, we all do.

Virginia Postrel: What You Buy Is Who You Are IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-freer.lotus-and-ducks-76

Virginia Postrel: What You Buy Is Who You Are

Will Truman August 30, 2016

The “big sort” has also come to labor markets. Rather than seeking to be a neutral place...

Scott Alexander: Reverse Voxsplaining – Drugs vs. Chairs IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-met.the-harvesters

Scott Alexander: Reverse Voxsplaining – Drugs vs. Chairs

Will Truman August 30, 2016

When Mylan decided to sell EpiPens for $300, in any normal system somebody would have made their...

Fantasy Football 2016

Burt Likko August 30, 2016

Join the League!

Morning Ed: Cities {2016.08.30.T} morninged-picketline

Morning Ed: Cities {2016.08.30.T}

Will Truman August 30, 2016

"Headin' up to San Francisco for the Labor Day weekend show..."

Dark Matter in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreSo the choice is that either my daughter gets a sub-standard education or some random kid ends up on…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25On the success of Don't Rank Cuomo: “In these troubled times we live in, we need that.” Dawn Phelps,…
Philip H in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25They “looked dominant” which was the point. You can’t “win” negotiations by looking “weak” and diplo…
Philip H in reply to Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaNeither are prevailing wages in construction or agricultural work. But those workforces are being ru…
InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25Initial reports are that the strikes only set the Iranian program back by months. What a disaster. N…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreOne point that strikes me as obvious is that continuing to fail, enough times, presents identically…
Jaybird in reply to John Puccio on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?From what I understand, the original pitch for Stranger Things was a bunch of clips from a half doze…
DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreThere are plenty who consider "we tried and failed" to be morally justifiable in a way that "we didn…
John Puccio in reply to Andrew Donaldson on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?Similar to Band of Brothers.
Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaWe had to have a plumber out yesterday evening because some numbnuts in an apartment above us has be…