Please take a minute to catch up on our posts from the past few days. Some of us have been working while others have been playing.
Cuba: the happy country. That's why so many are taking leaky boats to live there.
Megapussi! Why not?
In which Nicholas Kristoff proves himself to be a fad-chasing dope (like Thomas Friedman). How much science did Kristoff take in school? Does he really know how to skeptically analyse data - with the math?
Related, from Shrinkwrapped:
Once upon a time, MSM reporters, columnists, and editors mediated our information environment. Authoritative newspapers, such as the New York Times, and newsreaders, like Walter Cronkite, not only determined what the news of the day was but also established the acceptable parameters for discussing the news. The advent of the blogosphere introduced a complication to this structure. Suddenly, true experts in their fields could discuss what they considered to be the news in an unmediated fashion with their readers. One of the more interesting outcomes of such "contamination" of the once pristine MSM narrative was the spreading awareness that reporters, much of the time, are out of their depth talking about most technical subjects and that their biases blind them all too frequently to a full understanding of their subjects. This would be embarrassing and deflating to our MSM sages if they but noticed. Unfortunately, to a large extent, the MSM still determines what qualifies as "news" and continue to exercise their role as information gatekeepers in ways which damage our society.
The buggy-whip problem. What good is there in saving obsolete, union-controlled businesses?
Semi-related: regulations usually just protect the established, and inhibit the new. Just one of Washington's dirty secrets.
Stats show it was the no money down mortgages that were the real problem
Kaus: 'We'll raise your taxes and in exchange we're going to cut your treatments.' I mean, how could that not have widespread appeal?
How bad is Waxman-Markey? Read Betsy's link, and weep.
How bad is Dem dominance?
Sounds like an historic crack in Iran to me, too. We will see.
Tax Day Tea Party: Socialism is slavery. Of course it is. Our slaves were happy, weren't they? Free house, free food, guaranteed job, singing all day and strummin' on the ol' banjo in the evening?
Reminds me of Paul with his jailor: Convert the Atheist Game Show.
