the highest mental age we can achieve is fifteen and a half
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Anyone want to see a movie about credit default swaps?
Thursday, October 23, 2008
English is a dizzying and manifold thing
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
What does it mean to be a Republican? Do Republicans support laissez-faire or nationalized banking? Do Republicans support a balanced budget or half-trillion-dollar deficits? Do Republicans want a ‘humble foreign policy’ like George W. Bush, or preventive war against countries that pose no threat, like, umm, George W. Bush? Are Republicans the party of limited [...]
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Ten years from now no one is going to say that this crisis was brought about because Lehman Brothers went down.
NASA - Doomed Moon of Mars
The new devotion to complexity gives carte blanche to even the most trivial scholarly enterprise.
If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with a serving of Dr. Frankfurt’s finest.
Conservatives and Republicans, on the other hand, continue to battle it out: Was her choice a success or a disaster? And if one holds negative views, should one say so? For conservatives in general, but certainly for writers, the answer is a variation on Edmund Burke: You owe your readers not your industry only [...]