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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Nick Luck set to become main Morning Line presenter • Spokesperson denies Dubai sponsorship under threat Channel 4 is to reshuffle the way it uses its racing presenters early next year in an effort to save money. Although the broadcaster will maintain the number of races and racedays it covers, it has told Highflyer, the company that produces its racing output, to cut £10,000 per...
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Strictly Writing (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Is anyone out there old enough to remember the beloved (by me, anyway) children’s television programme How? Even if you’re not, here’s a riddle for you. Question: When is a 109,000 word novel not a 109,000 word novel? Answer: When it’s a 130,000 word novel pretending to be a 109,000 word novel. Confused? Read on my friends… Earlier this year a publisher invited me to...
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Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Econlog's Arnold Kling notes that Derek Thompson misinterpreted yesterday's CBO analysis of the stimulus's effect on employment, and says in two paragraphs what I said in 1,200 words: ...
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EconLog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
This is not big news, but Derek Thompson writes as if it is. The CBO came out today with a new report on the effect of the stimulus, or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The conclusion is that the stimulus has had essentially the same impact on GDP and employment as the CBO predicted in March 2009 -- lifting production by between 1 and 3 percent and raising employment by between 0.6...
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SCSUScholars (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
(Title with apologies to Johnny Carson ) CBO is now saying that the stimulus is working as planned. Menzie Chinn provides an outline; Derek Thompson calls it "the handiwork of dirty Keynesians." If by dirty Keynesians you mean people who use large-scale macroeconometric models, then I would say you're right. But that's what everyone uses in this business. You would think we'd dump them; there's...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It's no secret that most magazines are struggling to hold on to their subscribers. Just like the newspaper industry is under a lot of pressure from the Internet, magazines are also having a hard time adjusting to the reality of the Internet. Now, Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst are planning to form an alliance that would bring more than 50 magazines to an iTunes-like online store that would...
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Truthdig (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Over the last decade, Google has ballooned into the many-headed online hydra we know it to be today, and despite grumblings about monopolies and a couple legal tussles, the company’s vice grip has seemed assured for years to come. However, News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch might be gearing up to challenge Google’s market dominance. Murdoch is currently making noises about blocking News Corp....
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Political Wire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A new Rasmussen survey finds 51% of Americans believe canceling the rest of the economic stimulus money would create more jobs than actually spending it. Derek Thompson : "That is insane... The idea that canceling the stimulus would create more jobs implies that passing the stimulus has actually killed more jobs than it's created, which is bonkers. Let's say you don't want to consider infrastructure...
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El diario nocturno (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
If you are in town come join us for food, music, friends, and $pending at our annual Maverix Winter Art Exhibit. Contributing Artists: Patrick Awa, Ed Bell, Enrico Casarosa, Cj Guzman, John Hays, Jackie Huang, Mike Judge (Lord Cheez), Ted Mathot, Sho Murase, Bosco Ng, Sergio Paez, Octavio Rodriguez, Vaughn Ross, Tom Rubalcava, Derek Thompson, Dice Tsusumi, and Robert Valley MAVERIX STUDIOS 1717 17th...
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Enik Rising (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The Klugies had a big day on the blogosphere last Friday. My post on midterm elections got picked up by Matthew Yglesias and Derek Thompson at the Atlantic . More impressively, Greg Koger got interviewed by Ezra Klein about filibusters. Greg addresses the perennial question asked by modern opponents of the filibuster: Why not just have them? That is, let's break out the cots and force Republicans to...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
It may not be cheap, but it sure is expensive LIFE is a matter of trade-offs. On the one hand, as these charts from Ezra Klein show, American health care costs much, much more than exactly the same health care anywhere else in the developed world. On the other hand, for the extra money we pay, we get...much richer doctors! Great deal, huh?Incidentally, I found that salaries chart on a Mark Perry post...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Derek Thompson unearths a point from Bruce Bartlett's chat with Ezra Klein earlier this summer: Suppose you had a 10 percent VAT and we said we weren't going to collect it for the next 10 months. People would buy like...
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Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Derek Thompson writes: Once upon a time, personal electronics were designed to be single-function. Cameras were cameras, only. Phones were phones, only. The computer was a heavy stationary thing. But engineers slowly figured out how to build smaller chips, store greater memory and consolidate 130 functions. Today a single smart phone can do all of these [...]
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Community News - Leicester Mercury (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Blaby: Members of Blaby Townswomen’s Guild sat down to a fine buffet supper. to celebrate 80 years since the founding of the Movement. The Blaby guild is more than 40 years old. On display was a lovely wall hanging made by the Blaby Guild showing many aspects of the TG movement and scrapbooks to admire. Some founder members of the Blaby Guild attended what was a very enjoyable evening, spent...
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Latest Movie Trailers (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Dwayne Johnson is “The Tooth Fairy,” also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster’s hopes, he’s sentenced to one week’s hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first,...
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