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Anyone want a barely-used GSM Palm Pre?

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:00:43 -0400

Anyone want a barely-used GSM Palm Pre?

The Top Ten Immediate Benefits You’ll Get When Health Care Reform Passes:...

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:00:48 -0400

The Top Ten Immediate Benefits You’ll Get When Health Care Reform Passes: #9 C-SPAN’s _Washington Journal_ returns to its usual timeslot.

Even the best sidewalks can’t compete with the joy of running down the middle of the street

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:20:33 -0400

Even the best sidewalks can’t compete with the joy of running down the middle of the street

re http://j.mp/cqmBQw here’s my new metaphor for China owning all our debt: China has a water...

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:20:43 -0400

re http://j.mp/cqmBQw here’s my new metaphor for China owning all our debt: China has a water pistol pointed at us…and we’re on fire!

hey @stevenharms @TauPowered @psantora and others, does http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whynojobs make...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:22:31 -0400

hey @stevenharms @TauPowered @psantora and others, does http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whynojobs make sense on why the problem is the Fed?

writing this piece kind of made me want to be a teacher:...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:22:31 -0400

writing this piece kind of made me want to be a teacher: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange

both incredible and frustrating how few people realize the Fed is responsible for all this...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:22:31 -0400

both incredible and frustrating how few people realize the Fed is responsible for all this unemployment…

"with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see"

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:15:00 -0400

This Beatles lyric actually makes a rather interesting philosophical point: With eyes closed, you don’t get any direct visual input; instead, you make predictions about what you would see if your eyes were open. The only time you get anything approaching visual input from the outside world is when those predictions are wrong — i.e. there’s a misunderstanding. In those instances, your other senses give you new evidence about the real world that you use to correct your predictions. Thus, those misunderstandings are, quite literally, all you see.

Of course, the more obvious interpretation is simply that you don’t see much if your eyes are closed.

wow, @ezraklein really does type with just two fingers. it’s amazing!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:36:53 -0500

wow, @ezraklein really does type with just two fingers. it’s amazing!

RT @attackerman: #ChrisHayesShow. #ChrisHayesShow. #ChrisHayesShow. #ChrisHayesShow....

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:52:35 -0500

RT @attackerman: #ChrisHayesShow. #ChrisHayesShow. #ChrisHayesShow. #ChrisHayesShow. #ChrisHayesShow. #ChrisHayesShow. #ChrisHayesShow. …

been to four dinners tonight. still haven’t had dinner

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:03:15 -0500

been to four dinners tonight. still haven’t had dinner

John Stossel has exactly the brother you’d expect. He (the brother) was so rude to me that his...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:12:35 -0500

John Stossel has exactly the brother you’d expect. He (the brother) was so rude to me that his wife came up after to apologize.

trying really hard not to txt someone

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:20:27 -0500

trying really hard not to txt someone

TOM COBURN: “What we ought to do is the Willie Sutton thing.” Rob banks? #hcr

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:26:43 -0500

TOM COBURN: “What we ought to do is the Willie Sutton thing.” Rob banks? #hcr

RT @StephanieTaylor: Must see from @AndyCobb today on C-Span Summit:...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:26:43 -0500

RT @StephanieTaylor: Must see from @AndyCobb today on C-Span Summit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuhfMWjHCkM

"Some of us work on the plantation. Some of us own the plantation."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:55:53 -0500

““Some of us work on the plantation. Some of us own the plantation.””

- J. Peterman’s “Owner’s Hat” (via)

Court of No Appeal

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:51:41 -0500

Court of No Appeal:

Once again: Remind me never to get in a fight with Renata Adler.

Yes, the Awl just printed 1200 words on _Lochner_. Because The Awl is TEH AWESOME!

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:57:54 -0500

Yes, the Awl just printed 1200 words on _Lochner_. Because The Awl is TEH AWESOME!:

Seriously, where else do you get bloggage like that? Chris Lehmann: you rule.

"The revolution will not come as quickly as we expected. History has proved this, and we must be able..."

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:22:01 -0500

“The revolution will not come as quickly as we expected. History has proved this, and we must be able to take this as a fact, to reckon with the fact that the world socialist revolution cannot begin so easily in the advanced countries as the revolution began in Russia—in the land of Nicholas and Rasputin, the land in which an enormous part of the population was absolutely indifferent as to what peoples were living in the outlying regions, or what was happening there. In such a country it was quite easy to start a revolution, as easy as lifting a feather.”

- Lenin, Political Report of the Central Committee, March 7, 1918

Education Economics

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:04:48 -0500

Economists are always saying people wouldn’t be stuck in low-wage jobs, if only they had gone to college. Imagine everyone went to college. Do economists really think there would be nobody working at McDonald’s anymore? Would college graduates really be paid more for making fries? What gives?