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May 25, 2010
Information Wants to Be Forced to Circle Robin Hood's Barn...
Felix Salmon:
NYT side door opens up again: Peter Kafka actually bothered to ask the NYT about how traffic from side doors (as opposed to the “front door”, which is the home page) would be treated once the paywall goes up. And he got a pretty unambiguous answer:
Readers that are referred from third party sites such as blogs will be able to access that content without hitting their limit, enabling NYTimes.com to continue being a part of the open web.*
That’s great...
Our Way of Life Depends on Proper Action by the Federal Government
Bobby "No Volcano Monitoring Wanted Here!" Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, syas that our way of life depends on the federal government.
Nice to know
Blue Texan:
Bobby Jindal: “Our Way of Life Depends” on Federal Government: [I:]t wasn’t so long ago that [Jindal said that:] “Washington” and “big government” was the root of all our problems.
In the end, it comes down to an honest and fundamental disagreement about the proper role of government. We oppose the national Democrats&rsquo...
Winston Churchill Liveblogs World War II: May 25, 1940
Winston Churchill: May 25, 1940:
Prime Minister to Secretary of State for War and C.I.G.S.: Pray find out who was the officer responsible for sending the order to evacuate Calais yesterday, and by whom this very lukewardm telegram I saw this morning was drafted, in which mention is made of "for the sake of Allied solidarity." This is not the way to encourage men to fight to the end. Are you sure there is no streak of defeatist opinion in the General Staff?
May 24, 2010
links for 2010-05-24
MOC: "Global warming: Cute, but deadly"
Chris Giles: UK fiscal policy: The Posen poser
CG: "What timing. On the day that the new coalition government starts down the road of rapid deficit reduction, Adam Posen, external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, throws a well-aimed grenade into the...
Faisal N. Jawdat on the Perils of Contingency Planning in the Age of Cut-and-Paste
FNJ on Twitter:
Twitter / Faisal N. Jawdat: BP's Gulf Coast spill plan ...: BP's Gulf Coast spill plan suggests they found a walrus in the Gulf of Mexico. Was the Walrus looking for his bukket? http://huff.to/aLrkzK
Ta-Nehisi Coates Sends Us to Richard Pryor on Courage, the Nazis, and Other Things
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes:
Toward a Manifested Courage, Cont.: This made me think of the great Richard Pryor riff on courage and the Nazis. "Vat is dis?" There's a lot before that, but most of shows what I love about Pryor. He found his art in his own averageness, in his vulnerability, in his human cowardice. Of course stripping yourself naked is, in itself, a kind of courage:
Can We Please Shut the Washington Post Down Today? I Really Can't See It Doing Anybody Any Good...
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
Larry Summers opens his speech at Johns Hopkins today:
Reflections on Fiscal Policy and Economic Strategy: [T:]he observation that the economy is again ascending does not mean that we are out of a very deep valley.... [W:]e are nearly 8 million jobs short of normal... $1 trillion [a year:] – or $10,000 per family [per year:] – short of the economy’s potential output... recent events in Europe have introduced uncertainty.... Shortfalls in output and...
Can Scott Sumner Read? Empirical Evidence Suggests Not...
Paul Krugman writes:
Down The Memory Hole: Richard Green flies into a rage over remarks by Peter Wallison, who declares that "Indeed, the modern era of rapid economic growth commenced after both Democratic and Republican presidents undertook to lift costly and stultifying New Deal regulations." Green points out that growth has actually been slower since the big rightward shift circa 1980. But what he doesn’t seem to realize is that Wallison is just following the party line. Read almost...
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