Ta-Nahisi Coates, hands down. Image: “Three Wise Monkeys” Toshogo Shrine, Nikko Japan.
Archive for February 2009
Best Cheney Headline of the Month Prize Goes To…
February 7, 20091000 Words’ Worth…Bush Fail dept:
February 7, 2009Check out this graph at Brad DeLong’s indispensible site. See also Krugman’s version, with the boundaries of the Bush disaster conveniently marked in gray. (Should have been black crepe– ed.) It is perhaps too much of a simplification to suggest that this picture tells you all you need to know about the efficacy of tax [...]
We Are Ruled By Idiots: Susan Collins/Ben Nelson division
February 5, 2009Update: TPM points out in one of their updates to this story that (a) the list of proposed cuts keeps changing and (b) that this is in fact an effort to secure the votes for passage of the bill. So on the theory that some bill is better than none, this may be worth the [...]
Guest Post: Michelle Sipics on Air Force Woo, Military Suicide and the Importance of Thinking Straight
February 4, 2009Please feast your eyes and minds on another very sharp post from guest blogger (and graduate of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing) Michelle Sipics. As always Michelle suffers no fools gladly: **** After an unintentional but undeniably long hiatus, I am back at Inverse Square. My thanks to Tom for not holding my [...]
Blogroll Amnesty Day
February 3, 2009Jon Swift is the man on this one — at least in my experience: it was through his efforts that I first came into consciousness of blogroll amnesty day, the day every blog should celebrate (and link to) blogs worthy of notice. The idea is to get big blogs to give interesting, otherwise hard to [...]
Always Behind The Times, Me…
February 3, 2009…but there is no reason not to share that which amused my morning no end. Lego and Izzard. Now that’s modern civilization. Somehow I, like the commenter on this much-fun thread over at PZ’s shop, had managed to miss this crucial cultural reference. If you had too, enjoy. h/t commenter SC FCTE OM at number [...]
Apologies, wrapped in a truly scary picture
February 2, 2009I’ve been conspicuous by my absence, caused more by the disasters that attend a newly installed department head in the first days of term. I’ll be pretty sketchy in my posts here for a bit, trapped between that admin cr*p, the rigors of getting my upcoming book properly launched, and attending to the birth of [...]
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