Blue screen of death, Las Vegas style.
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Kentucky Editor
Do statements like this not elicit at least a raised eyebrow anymore?
… abortion-rights supporters say it is offensive to require a separate purchase for coverage of a medical procedure that for most women is unexpected.Isn’t that exactly the point of insurance? You buy it. You relax. Should some unforseen [...]
My question: Does Chris Dodd believe that pushing the price of credit (interest rates) to below-market rates had [...]
Secrets of The Shining: Or How Faking the Moon Landings Nearly [...]
Dear Legacy Recordings,
A small point of information. It’s Bill Monroe, not Bob Monroe.
Cordially,
Caleb
[...]In Delaware, Brett Chidester, 17, committed suicide in 2006 after becoming a carrot eater. There was no evidence that Chidester was under the influence of carrots when he killed himself, but within four months, state legislators passed “Brett’s Law,” making carrots a controlled substance. Now replace “carrots” with “salvia” and you [...]
Louisville has a GDP remarkably close to that of Ecuador. Thanks @andyroth.
[...]What is happening in Cuba? Long-term loans of farmland, for one:
The Cuban government, in its most dramatic reform since Castro took over for his ailing older brother Fidel three years ago, is offering private farmers such as Fuentes the use of fallow state lands to grow crops — for a [...]Meg Whitman is a nonvoter. She is, therefore, an awful person and should not be allowed to serve as governor.
Meg Whitman owes the voters of California more than an apology.Ezra Klein says:
Whining about the length of a bill is the first refuge of the scoundrel. It’s supposed to denote complexity and ambition and overreach. But what it really proves is that legislative language is sort of arcane.Scoundrel, really? Legislative language is arcane, sure. But that doesn’t always mean [...]
Mark Thoma points to Bruce Bartlett’s Forbes piece on how Republicans are unrealistic about cutting spending. I think Bartlett is basically right about Republicans overestimating the ability of Republican-controlled governments to cut spending, but heavens, the criticism has to cut both ways, dudn’t it?
I question how anyone, anyone [...]
Former Kentucky lawmaker Steve Nunn (son of former governor Louis B. Nunn) has been charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend. The story keeps getting stranger.
[...]President Obama will talk to students tomorrow. He’ll say this:
I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve.I know Mr. Obama taught constitutional law at one point, [...]
People laughed or cringed or bit their tongues when I bought Freddie Mac at $.40/share. I bought it because I couldn’t imagine a world where the federal government wouldn’t try to nurse the broken, ill-conceived, compromised agency back to “health.”
Nursing Freddie Mac back to health may well include dumping [...]
Well, no, actually. More like They Might Be Giants.
Jesse Walker says Ted Kennedy inspired a Styx song. He also inspired TMBG’s “Boat of Car”:
I took my boat for a carBBC World News is doing a better job redeeming Ted Kennedy (to me) than the combined efforts of American radio/television/print.
The work that BBC is highlighting (Kennedy’s efforts on behalf of Irish peace, for example) seem far less expensive or unsustainable than the domestic policies that he so vigorously supported.
Update: [...]
I’ve seen waaaay yonder too much Ted Kennedy coverage today not to have seen this storied clip in the coverage. Maybe I’ve just conveniently missed it, but shouldn’t I have seen this clip at least three or four times at this point in the day. Kudos to the [...]
From Reuters (via Nick Gillespie):
Video games might be regarded as an obsession for youngsters but in fact the average player is aged 35, often overweight, introverted and may be depressed, according to a U.S. study.Naomi Klein has been pretty hard on ol’ capitalism. She argues that capitalists lie in wait for opportunities to deregulate markets and privatize infrastructure. All those capitalists need is a crisis to give people a shock so that otherwise abhorrent laissez-faire Friedmanite policies can be adopted before the [...]
