So Soundgarden played a semi-secret warm-up show at the Showbox in Seattle on Friday. (Nope, I wasn't there.) The Stranger has a review here....
Written by Greg Mankiw, who nobody on the planet would accuse of being a liberal. Microwave will hate it, of course, because it doesn't adhere...
It's the John Birch Society! Yes, the CPAC is allowing the John Birch Society to be one of the sponsors of their next meeting. This is akin...
So let's get the end-of-the-decade lists going, shall we? Ten (well, okay, eleven) best movies of the 2000s: Best of Youth The Return Before...
Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Read all about it here. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Aw man, best laugh I'll have all day. <wipes tear...
There have been so many great pieces about macro in the popular press lately, but this is the one that really blew me away: Chicago School...
Cass Sunstein was confirmed as the Regulatory Chief today in a nearly straight party-line vote. Just so you know, Republicans had been...
I'm interested to hear what our resident lawyers have to say on the matter: how much of Kennedy's criticism of Bork can be considered legitimate...
Sadly, I missed the spectacle because I was attending a different function before class started. But yep, they think that my professor (Richard...
It has occurred to me that the incredible daily stupidity of Rep. Michelle Bachman requires its own thread. Today's exhibit. Don't skip the video.
. . . and I'm sure we Democrats were plenty insufferable during the Bush years. No, no matter how insufferable and crazy we may have been, we...
Dannytoone and I started going off on a tangent about Pigovian taxation in another thread. Here's why I bring it up: we've all heard in recent...
It's called Big Hollywood. It has been fascinating me for weeks. Except for a small handful of postings, it's really terrible.
The New York Times is reporting that John Updike died of lung cancer today.
The New Republic just published a piece about the cultures at Yale and Harvard Law, as well as Obama's and Clinton's law school days. I can't...
It turns out that it's much harder to manage a government when a huge source of your tax income (oil) falls in price. From The NY Times. His...
While some of you jablonskis are listening to Vampire Weekend while ironing your sweaters, the rest of us are having orgasms over the recent news...
So Obama just announced his economics team a short while ago. I assume you guys plan to point out which members, exactly, are socialists?
From The New York Times: Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of...
So has anyone been listening to it today? What has the reaction been like?
I originally planned to write a joking post about how, now that the party is over, you should expect us to be stopping by your homes later today...
I just heard on NPR on the way to work that Paul Krugman won this year's prize for economics.
Here are my suggestions: (1) The Palin pick. It hasn't quite been revealed to be a miscalculation yet, although trends point in that direction....
Because if she had, she wouldn't have realized that he went off the deep end at least a couple of years ago. We all know that he's a serial...
My brother's birthday is coming up, and I'm stumped about what to get him. For the past year or two, he's been delving deep into film noir and...