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Obama Is More Successful than Anybody Would Have Dared Dream Six Years Ago

If the day after election day in 2004 somebody had come back to the future to tell us that not only would Barack Obama win the presidency in 2008 but also tell us everything he would accomplish in 2009 and 2010, we would simply not have believed him. America's problems are bigger than we feared, but his achievements have been much bigger than we would have dared hope back then:

Ezra Klein: The Obama administration's pipe dreams: The White House held a conference call today for...

Something No Human Has Ever Seen Before

Courtesy of Climate Progress: Masters: “It appears that this year’s record [sea surface temperatures:] have significantly expanded the area over which major hurricanes can exist over the Atlantic.”:

Dean Baker Watches as the Washington Post Wages Class War--Against the Dangerous Classes that Make Up the Bottom 90%

There ought to be resignations in disgust and on principle from the Washington Post today. But, then, there should be resignations in disgust and on principle from the Washington Post every day, shouldn't there?

Dean Baker turns my breakfast of leftover kung pao tofu (with what some might call an excess of poblano peppers) into gall in my mouth by sending me this:

Was politics behind the government's decision to preserve the UAW's pensions?: The story of GM's relationship with...

links for 2010-09-17

Land of the Dead







Making Light: Displaced advice, and other sorts







Ezra Klein - The Obama administration's pipe dreams







Megan McArdle is Always Wrong: On So Many Axes It's Hard To No Where To Start/Outsourced Edition. « The Inverse Square Blog







Blog U.: Why Matterhorn Is Good for Everyone (Including Lecture Capture...

Solutions to Problem Set 1

Problem Set 1 Solutions

Open publication - Free publishing - More economics

Atlantic Monthly Fail (Clive Crook Edition)

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

Clive Crook:

Climategate Corrections and Revisions 2 : On August 3rd, I posted a further note on the inquiries into the Climategate scandal. Joe Romm's criticism that the phrase "the trick to hide the decline" does not appear in the Climategate emails is correct. I have supplied the sentence that did appear, and corrected the other references to it. I've tried to clarify my position on Penn State's treatment of it. I have added...

It Looks as Though Notebook Sales Have Peaked...

If you had told me nine months ago that Apple's iPad would be so successful that notebook computer sales would start to drop, I would simply not have believed you.

Philip Elmer-Dewitt:

Notebook sales growth goes negative. Can we blame the iPad yet?: Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty issued a report to clients.... "Tablet cannibalization" -- chiefly by Apple's (AAPL) iPad -- is at least partially responsible, she suggests. Her evidence:

NPD data showing that after six...

19 Turkeys in My Yard. Somebody Call Michael Pollan...

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links for 2010-09-16

Print on the iPad: A smashing success | The Economist

The Economist: Print on the iPad: A smashing success: http://tinyurl.com/2cp9xc2 #worthreading





Pressure grows on Harvard to cancel Peretz honor

@delong, hope aboard? RT @Mondoweiss Pressure grows to cancel Peretz honor: Open letter to Social Studies mtg tomorrow http://bit.ly/coplTp

– Nathaniel Wice (nathwice...

Memo to Self: Check What Kind of Peppers Are in CSA Box Before You Cook Them...

Mexican poblano peppers do not taste like Hungarian gypsy peppers.

That is all.