Monthly Archives: January 2009
Naive Extrapolations: GDP Down 3.8 Percent
The Wall Street Journal reports: Third-quarter GDP fell 0.5%. The back-to-back GDP declines were the first since GDP fell 3.0% in the fourth quarter of 1990 and 2.0% in the first quarter of 1991. The New York Times reports: In … Continue reading
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Pirates Attack!
From the New York Comptroller, we learn pirates have ransacked TARP: New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said that total Wall Street bonuses totaled $18.4 billion last year. Though that represented a 44% drop from the previous year, the size … Continue reading
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Morality for Cats and Dogs
Marc Bekoff presents the gist of his new book, Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, in a Daily Camera op-ed: Do these examples show that animals display moral behavior, that they can be compassionate, empathic, altruistic, and fair? Yes … Continue reading
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David Brooks Says Submit!
David Brooks pulls out the whip and imitates the Grand Inquisitor. That lovely Spaniard suggested all of humanity wanted three things: Someone to bow down to. An institution to take over its conscience. And a means of uniting everyone at … Continue reading
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Krusty Krugman
The incorrigible Nobel Prize winner, with no sense of logic, in his latest column: Next, write off anyone who asserts that it’s always better to cut taxes than to increase government spending because taxpayers, not bureaucrats, are the best judges of … Continue reading
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Bias at The Edge.org
So the Edge.org submits an annual question to 151 intellectuals, artists and scientists, among others. This year they ask “What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?” Many of the answers are interesting. But I … Continue reading
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Facebook In Cairo
Well, at least they’re trying to keep up. The Times Magazine has a story on how Facebook is being used in Cairo to organize protests. Of course, I liked the story better when it was reported three months ago in … Continue reading
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Female Desire: Why Not Ask PUAs?
The New York Times Magazine has a blunderbuss feature on female desire. The most striking thing about the whole article–aside from its lack of coherence–is how utterly ignorant the author seems to be about the siege pick up artists, men … Continue reading
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Anthony Bourdain Sounds Off
Interesting interview: Any advice [to Obama] about food? I’ll tell you. Alice Waters annoys the living shit out of me. We’re all in the middle of a recession, like we’re all going to start buying expensive organic food and running to the … Continue reading
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