Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2564
September 9, 2010
The Real Terry Jones
Yes, as I typed the name, I felt a twinge of remorse. Google is an uncaring thing and names matter. A moment for the man who deserves the real recognition. This never gets old:
Google - YouTube - Searching - Search Engines - Chris Pirillo
What Can We Believe About Palin? Ctd
Micheal Gross responds to critics of his Vanity Fair profile:
A number of commentators have noted the use of anonymous sources
my article. I explained in the article why this was necessary, but
me amplify the explanationAfter the 2008 election, Sarah Palin and her advisers decided thatit was time to "go over [the:] heads" of the media, as one of her formerpress aides told me, and, in effect, invent a new way of doingpolitical business. Palin began using Facebook and Twitter to...
Distrusting Republicans, But Voting For Them Anyway, Ctd
Karl Smith theorizes that an an invisible hand moves swing voters. Will Wilkinson vote Republican:
Divided government has many under-appreciated virtues. As the Cato Institute's William Niskanen has pointed out,divided government is the best recipe for fiscal restraint—somethingAmerica will urgently require, come the recovery. Divided governmentsare also less likely to charge into war. "In 200 years of US history,every one of our conflicts involving more than a week of ground combathas...
"Now There Are Nine"
Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11. Since then it hasn't done a good job of hiring the kind of people who speak and understand the languages and cultures of that region. One of the heroes of my book and my film, Ali Soufan, the FBI agent who came closer than anyone at stopping 9/11, was one of eight Arabic-speaking agents at the FBI on 9/11. Now there are nine. The really woeful thing about it is that if Ali Soufan tried...
The Final Shoe?
Building off of a Leonhardt column on housing, Felix Salmon warns:
[I:]ncomes are the final shoe to drop in this recession. We've had a nastyfall in GDP, and in the stock market. We've had a large rise inunemployment. But we haven't had any kind of decline in real wages —quite the opposite, in fact. Leonhardt says that "housing does not rankwith unemployment, the trade deficit, the budget deficit or consumerdebt as one of the economy's biggest problems." But what effect does hethink that those...
Chart Of The Day
Heather Boushey explains a new trend:
[Y:]oung women are earning more than young men because young women areacquiring more skills than the men are. Good for them. But this doesn'tmean that they're being treated the same way in the workplace. When youdo the apples-to-apples comparison that the AAUW did, young women stillearn less than comparably skilled men. What has changed is that thereare more women with higher levels of education. Among women aged 22 to30, a third (34 percent) have some...
The Dauphin Who's A CVD Fan
Thomas P.M. Barnett reports:
The most exclusive party on the planet this week won't take place on some former senate candidate's yacht or even in a celebrity's backyard. It will take place — well no one knows where it's going to be, really, except somewhere in North Korea. What is for sure — and what everyone beyond diplomatic circles should know full well — is that the impending conference of the Workers' Party, which is supposed to happen every five years but has taken thirty in this kind...
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