I just discovered a new report put out by Reconnecting America. Demand for transit has been growing and getting to be more politically successful – which I hadn’t anticipated. Maybe its just my social circle but most people I know still seem to be grumbling about the light rail here in the Twin Cities. The demand for [...]
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Not sure I agree with it, but I’d be damn proud if I’d written it. Via Andrew Sullivan, one of his readers writes in: Earlier this week, in your post “The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama”, you wrote under Point 4: “A truce in the culture war. Obama takes us past thedebilitating [...]
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
the fact that Obama has not only read the Pollan article I linked to the other day (on food) but seems to understand it? (I learned about this from Kottke) I mean, fine, this doesn’t prove anything. Well, it proves one thing: that the guy has ear-holes into which flows information that comes from sources [...]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I found this cool interview with Christopher Nolan, director of the current incarnation of the Batman movie franchise. He talks about both films, Heath, and his favorite scene from The Dark Knight – surprisingly it is not the disappearing pencil scene. He also mentions that he has no idea if there will be a third movie [...]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Everyone who knows me knows I do a lot of thinking about food and nutrition. A subset of those people have heard me beat the drum about how the Ethanol movement is an absolutely assinine, a claim that cannot be controversial to anyone with five minutes to spend thinking and a first-grade command of arithmetic. [...]
Having Hitch be on your side wrt some issue is a flavor of nice that makes you feel sort of guilty. Still, like Janie told me the other day, we shouldn’t bother to be ashamed of our failings. Why waste the time, since nothing can be done? With that in mind, I give you The [...]
You think a lot about what other people have. You think about how they have money that you don’t, or screw hot chicks and you don’t, or how you have twenty pounds of ass fat that they don’t. At grocery checkouts this tendency is at its most garish. Think about it: what fucking sensible reason [...]
One of the principal troubles with a certain class of people is a staunch belief that markets are the Baby Jesus. Daniel talked about this yesterday, but this analysis on the implications of Greenspan’s ‘confession’ got me all riled up for another take: The failure of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis is, perhaps, an even more [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
With the credit crisis raging and the stock market crashing, it’s not surprising that some people are rethinking their approach to free-market economics. What is surprising is who some of these people are. Perhaps most surprising is former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, a staunch opponent of regulation and a former member of the Objectivist inner [...]
The question has been: if I have proven, in various environments, that I can excel, then why can’t I excel in other environments? If I go to Clarion and kick a whole bunch of ass, then come home and kick no ass whatsoever, what happened? Well, of course life now is radically different than life [...]