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Daily Archives: November 15th, 2009

Probably a meaningless observation

Sunday, November 15, 2009

I am sitting on my patio, in the dark, pecking away at my computer. The temperature is perfectly pleasant. It is November 15th. The only problem is the insects that are being attracted to my computer screen. Here’s my question: What business do these insects have being alive and active on November 15th? Is this […]

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Rational decision makers

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Via Firedoglake, the right has apparently found an academic prepared to give intellectual respectability to its opposition to the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, a George Mason University professor named Todd Zywicki: Zywicki and his fellow Randians think that the FCPA wouldn’t have made the slightest difference in the conditions that led to the great […]

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America for the Americans

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Via Jesus General. Stay with it. It sounds like the teabagger crowd never realizes it’s been played.

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Escalation of committment

Sunday, November 15, 2009

As he contemplates trudging off into the Big Muddy, Afghanistan style, Obama might profit from perusing this article in today’s Times: If a business school professor is running short on cash, there is a sure-fire solution: run a dollar auction game in class. To start, the professor offers to sell the class a $20 bill. […]

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Utopia East-even further East, that is

Sunday, November 15, 2009

There must be something about Hollywood that brings out the dupes in people. In today’s Globe we read that yet another small time Hollywood huckster has deluded yet another small New England town into believing a lot of hype that a little bit of due diligence would have exposed as claptrap. This time it’s Plymouth, […]

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It was 40 years ago today

Sunday, November 15, 2009

On November 15, 1969 half a million people descended on Washington D.C. to protest the Vietnam War, not a single one of them directly or indirectly subsidized by a TV network or an astroturfing group of lobbyists. I made the trip to DC with some college friends. There were four of us, joined by two […]

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