Real Time Economics (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Speaking at a conference at Stanford University's Hoover Institution on the Federal Reserve's recent extraordinary actions, George Schultz – who served Republican administrations as secretary of Treasury, State and Labor — says the government needs to re-learn the habit of saying no to private interests who seek taxpayer rescues when their bets prove to be [...]
Aural States (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seems this month is just chock full of new contributors. Welcome Sam Buker, a new A.S. member with a taste for good classical and jazz. A rare treat in the summer: classical chamber taking a brave stance. Try a sonata (1979) by American George Rochberg, a serialist composer who turned back to tonality [...]
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008 | Politics
Techdude delivers a final report that exceeds my wildest expectations. It is irrefutable, empirical evidence - Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. Why? Why a COLB forgery? That is the question. My deepest thanks and appreciation for Techdude's unwavering commitment to the truth despite the threats and harassment, the slashed tires and the dead animal on his porch. Insofar as "techdude's" credentials,...
Hop Talk (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In his Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post two weeks ago, George F. Will used the (at the time) as yet unaccepted offer from InBev for Anheuser-Busch as seen in Investor’s Business Daily as a lead-in to meander from beer as a staple, to beer as essential to civilization, to beer and its role in [...]
Maryland Moment (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Prince George's AFSCME unions are filing an official grievance against the county, as the conflict between the government's unions and Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) deepens. At issue is Johnson's decision to try to close a $48 million budget shortfall in part by renegotiating pay raises included in union contracts. Johnson has said he does not want to freeze salaries, but reduce the size of the raises...
Gruts (Free subscription) | yesterday
A very big thank you indeed to the Gruts reader (you know who you are) who has just sent me George Johnson's The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments from my Amazon wish list . Much appreciated—although you really shouldn't have. Just imagine my disappointment, however, on flicking through the book, to discover that the hatescope had somehow been overlooked. Story of my life. permalink | add comment
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jack Cashill After nearly six months of dithering on the charges against Dr. George Tiller, Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison re-interpreted the state's tough late-term abortion law to mean that it did not matter whether a woman had a legally...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | yesterday | US
If he really wanted to scare them he should threaten to pay them what they’d be worth in the private sector .
AdScam/The Horror! (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
LAM has some interesting info in his comment yesterday on the last big piece of business that's saving Draft's arse (temporarily.) Namely the SC Johnson account. I worked on it back in my "Mad Men," three martini lunch days, in...
On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Just a vignette from a post convention meeting at the 2008 Green Party Annual Meeting in Chicago. Includes cameos by: Reverend Lewie Pell of NJ; Bruce Gagnon of Maine; Drew Johnson of CA; George Martin of Wisconsin; Nikhilananda of Hawai’i; Tom Yager, Co-Chair of PCSC Committee; Craig Thorsen, of the Steering Committee; and Alfred Molison, [...]
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Your ancestors did. Drinking water posed the risk of cholera, dysentery and other diseases. Drinking beer kept them alive. And they passed their beer-drinking genes on to you. That's the thesis of Steven Johnson's book, The Ghost Map. See George Will's take on this [here]. It was good enough for Isaac. It was good enough for [...]
Seattle Pos (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The vice presidency: Nothing is predictable, except for occasional disasters.
vksempireofdirt.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In the last couple of years Affliction T shirts have become the trademark wear (uniform if you will), of the UFC and MMA scene. Everyone who’s anyone within the MMA community has their own line with the t shirt company. All the heavy hitters, Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture, George St. Pierre, and the illest, Rampage [...]
Baseball Toaster: The Griddle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Back on this day in 1916, the National League had its first instance of a batter striking out twice in the same inning. And it was no slouch who did it. It was future Hall of Famer Edd Roush of the Cincinnati Reds, who was rung up twice by Philadelphia's George Chalmers in the sixth inning.
Tariq Nelson (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
An interesting article on the effects of gentrification appears in the Wall Street Journal. During the late 1990’s and early 21st century, many housing projects were razed and the residents were scattered into the inner suburbs (in the DC area’s case Prince George’s County). Meanwhile the developers built new condos and urban shopping centers that attracted [...]
