Jim Baca shares a delightful letter from his sister, traveling in Bhutan: I was in a temple yesterday for a festival and observed about 60 nine-year old monks in training. The adult monks allowed the 4 of us to lean against the wall and watch. One of the teachers walked by me and whispered, “You …
No doubt conservatives are rejoicing at the NYTimes’ discovery of a way to silence Paul Krugman.
I’m obviously no Malcolm Gladwell, but I’m a journalist too, and this very much captures how I feel about what I do: “I spend my time talking to people who tell me things, and then I write them down,” he says. “I’m necessarily parasitic in a way.” He pauses, as if to consider whether he’s …
I realize that serious economics commentators do their beer blogging on Fridays, but I just got ’round to reading this in Friday’s Financial Times: Cold, refreshing, helps you forget – the charms of beer are pretty recession-proof. However, what was a lifestyle choice when consumers were flush with cash rapidly becomes an overpriced foreign beer …
Greg Mankiw reprises the argument for why you might consider not going out and voting: Anyone who has ever entered a polling booth can easily see why roll off occurs. You come ready to vote for your favorite candidate in some race you’ve been following closely, but then you face a whole list of races …
I completed the eagerly awaited annual non-partisan Fleck Yard Sign Survey today while Lissa and I took a long walk through the surrounding neighborhoods in search of lox, bread products and coffee. The talley: Obama 19 McCain 4 The results are in too late for Nate Silver to incorporate in today’s model runs, but they …
Breeders unite: [W]hat’s wrong with all the straight folk? Do you have something better do with with your Thursday night than all these gay people? I doubt it – I’m sure they’ve all got fabulous dinner parties to attend or those awesome bars to go on Castro St and I’m sure their tiny dogs need …
My friend Jim Belshaw, who writes a newspaper column and has long had a love-hate relationship with blogging, sent along an Atlantic essay by Andrew Sullivan about blogging. Sullivan was one of the first bloggers I read who deserved the label, as it has now come to be known. But before blogging was the thing …
Seen on a University of New Mexico blackboard last night in an empty classroom. Kinda tough to read, so I’ll transcribe: Matthew – We thought maybe the zombies wouldn’t be able to chase us up the stairs. They’re smarter than we thought. If you find this, we’re headed for Atlanta. Send the kids our love. …
Peak IP addresses. (Hubbert predicted this would happen. You see those techno-optimistists with their wild claims that IPV6 will fix this. I think we’re condemned to a dystopian future.)