Our very junior senator weighed in with an attempt to play in the big leagues today, and it wasn’t pretty. Senator (sic) Brown put his name on top of what seems to have been a pre-packaged generic GOP attack op-ed in the Boston Globe, titled,”The Health Care Fight Is Not Over.” (h/t BarbinMD over at [...]
Archive for March 2010
The Education of Scott Brown…1/3rd term Senator edition.
March 30, 2010David Brooks is Always Wrong — NPR Edition, Part Two.
March 30, 2010Back in Part One, we covered one of David Brooks’ many transgressions as a financial pundit, his claim, repeated last Friday on NPR’s “All Things Considered” that the new health care law is a budget buster. I called it an error. It is more precise to term it a lie, as the best available data, [...]
David Brooks is Always Wrong — NPR Edition, Part One.
March 27, 2010I know, I know. It should be Megan McArdle up there; in some views, she’s retired that title, and it sits up there above the right field bleachers next to the 1, the 4, the 6 and the rest. (Sacrilege! Must this blog stoop so low?) But the problem is, David Brooks is always wrong. [...]
Why You Should Want To Be An Astronomer…
March 27, 2010You get the chance to make images like this one: This is the Owl Nebula — a planetary nebula* visible in the Northern Hemisphere in the constellation Ursa Major. It gets its name from the two dark “eyes” visible more or less along the center line of the image, which to the poetic soul that [...]
Friday Brain Candy: Puppetmaster comeuppance edition
March 26, 2010Because I’m too lame to figure out how to embed this, you’re just going to have to click on the link. It’s worth it. Trust me. Image: F. A. Philips: Spielendes Kind mit Kasperpuppe, 1878.
For Good Times in Marietta, Ohio and Ann Arbor Michigan.
March 23, 2010The Newtonpalooza rolls on. If tonight (Tuesday, March 23) you happen to be in the vicinity of Marietta College (in Marietta, Ohio), I’ll be giving the Krause Lecture at 7:30 in the Alma McDonough Auditorium on campus (number 7 on the campus map). The subject — Isaac Newton, and what his not-so-secret history as a [...]
Quickie Post, to let you know that David Brooks has finally revealed the secrets of conservative math.
March 23, 2010I’m on the road again in yet one more Newtonpalooza, so no substantive posting is going to happen, but I saw in my morning check of Balloon Juice (the only source for news you can really use) that David Brooks has produced another of his considered analyses to explain the real meaning of critical events. [...]
Go Do Some Post-Health-Care-Vote Reading…
March 22, 2010And start with Brad Delong’s front page — a bunch of must reads and a delightful sense of history (and literature) to go with it. I particularly like that item which for now stands at the top of the page in question. Image: Vincent van Gogh, “Corridor in the Asylum” 1889.
Health Care Comment-Without-Words (None Needed edition)
March 22, 2010Sometimes One Can Rage, Rage at the Dying of the Light…and Sometimes One Must Laugh: Mostly Outsourced McArdle edition
March 21, 2010John Cole has done all that is necessary to demonstrate the lasting waste of perfectly good bytes that is Megan McArdle. He merely quotes her accurately, and then stands back and laughs. There really isn’t anything more that needs to be said, except to note that it is by their behavior in extremis that you [...]
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