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June 2, 2010

Liveblogging World War II: June 2, 1940

In Britain, the sugar ration is reduced to 8 oz. per week, effective immediately.





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Published on June 02, 2010 05:21

June 1, 2010

Mr. Rochester Has a W...

Actually, he doesn't--that's a good deal of the problem.





I must say, N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is the damnedest riff on Jane Eyre I have ever read or ever expect to read.





Highly recommended.





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Published on June 01, 2010 21:13

links for 2010-06-01

Robber Tries To Make Getaway In Stretch Hummer

"TOPEKA, Kansas - At 12:41 a.m., Topeka Police Department officers responded to the KWIK Shop at 4500 S. Topeka Blvd reference an armed robbery. An individual making a delivery to the business called 911 and reported the robbery. A description of the suspect and a vehicle involved was provided to the 911 operator. The vehicle involved in the robbery was described as white stretch Hummer Limousine last seen east...
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Published on June 01, 2010 21:05

Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?

Good riddance to the departure of the Economist's Lexington. His first column, from last summer:




Lexington: The passing of Palin | The Economist: ON A trip to Alaska three years ago, Lexington watched a former small-town mayor perform in a Republican primary debate. One of her rivals was the sitting governor, a man of far greater political experience. She trounced him. Granted, he was so dull that even his campaign song admitted it. Still, it was an arresting performance. Strange to...

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Published on June 01, 2010 16:48

The (Bob) Cat Came Back the Very Next Day...

Inspecting the neighbors' trash cans, it is...

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Published on June 01, 2010 16:13

Is the iPad the Future, or Just a Clever Mockup?

I'm not sure: I think its virtual keyboard needs to do a lot better a job at giving feedback to touch-typists before the iPad can place itself on the path to world domination. But I'm also a person who for a decade thought that Apple Computer was about to breathe its last.



Charles Stross plays with an iPad:




Gadget Patrol: iPad - Charlie's Diary: [T:]his isn't a PC or Macintosh or UNIX experience, this is something New.... A lot of attention has also gone into making the user interface...

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Published on June 01, 2010 15:43

Did Betelguese Go Supernova 530 Tears Ago?

It would be nice to know...





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Published on June 01, 2010 15:06

Christy Romer Begs Congress to Grab the Low-Hanging Fruit

Romer:







Christina D. Romer - How to prevent huge teacher layoffs: The emergency spending bill before the House would address the education crisis... the jobs of hundreds of thousands of teachers.... [S:]tates and localities are drastically cutting education spending... school districts in Hawaii went to only four days of instruction a week.... As many as one out of every 15 teachers could receive a pink slip this summer.... Such layoffs are terrible for teachers, for communities and...

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Published on June 01, 2010 11:49

Ummm... Kevin...

Tyler Cowen quotes Kevin Drum:







Kevin Drum on fiscal stimulus: But despite all this, there's one pretty good reason to think that Tyler is basically right: tax cuts. Lefty economists might generally believe that increasing spending is a more efficient way of stimulating consumption than reducing taxes, but they'd almost certainly accept a big tax cut as an almost-as-good substitute.... [O:]n the political side it's quite doable. Republicans would be persuadable because they love tax...

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Published on June 01, 2010 11:18

In Which Bill Galston, Writing for the New Republic, Simply Doesn't Do His Homework...

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



Bill Galston writes in--surprise, surprise--the New Republic:




The Case Against Keynes (With Some Questions For Krugman, Too): oshihiro Ihori, Masume Kawade, and Toru Nakazato.... “One hypothesis is that the effects of fiscal policy were very large and hence recession would have deepened without fiscal expansion. Alternatively, it may be that fiscal policy did not have enough of an expansionary effect to push up macroeconomic activity, and...

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Published on June 01, 2010 09:34

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