Between the university economics class I’m taking and the various stuff people are actually trying to pay me to do, I’ve been too busy to pay proper writerly attention here to a number of important events and discussions. Let me just dump a few things quickly, and let you click through to read what smarter …
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From Larry Calloway: I asked Wallace Stegner if he could define the history of the West, expecting a Frontier Thesis answer consistent with his Wilderness Letter and “the geography of hope.” He leaned forward as cool as his heavy drift of snowy hair and said: “One big real estate deal.”
Links to my work from Daily Kos and FiveThirtyEight in the same day. Barb raises the question of whether that’s 30 total minutes.
I’ve largely been out of the climate wars fray for years, but yesterday’s Hansen v. Pielke thread leads to a couple of observations: New business model: mention Hansen and Pielke a lot. The quality and usefulness of commenter contributions scales as the inverse square of their relative anonymity. (This blog in recent years has largely …
From Democracy for New Mexico: My partner of 19+ years and I are aging. We’re dealing with a number of health problems. We’re aware that if Mary Ellen loses her job, my health insurance will end that day, because the vast majority of employers in New Mexico can’t, by law, offer insurance coverage to domestic …
Talking dinosaurs and the false balance problem.
It’s been a hard week. Colleagues who did good journalism around me losing their jobs, and the business I love coming unglued. We call it “the daily miracle,” somewhat sarcastically, because you see the chaos that sometimes sets in, around 6 in the evening, the false starts and confused discussions, the arguments over what are …
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I have a twitter feed. There, you can learn about dead birds.
Does this apply to today? Why, or why not? When an economy is expanding and things are going well, it becomes easier to think in terms of spending resources to deal with problems. Times of recession or of slow growth and slowly rising living standards with reduced public resources result in downgrading the significance of …
A bit of dystopian fiction from my young friend Kelsey, with a loving nod to our disappearing past: “But those were on paper once, you can’t be that sure” “It also isn’t one of those papers.” “What? But that means it’s…okay, you’re right, it’s old. But how old?” “Dunno”, you say, “dates missing. But it …
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