October 2008
97 posts
“Given its strong balance sheet and cash generative businesses, WWE (World...”
– WWE Maintains High Dividend Yield: Financial News
“The inequality in these fields, where incomes have a power law distribution, is...”
– Overcoming Bias: The Hope Premium
(via parkparadigm)
innonate:
I’m Changing My Name to Chrysler, by...
September 2008
87 posts
Why McCain Is Going To Win, Sorry
caro:
josephweisenthal:
It’s true though: In the next month, watch for a backlash to the new Bill Maher movie bashing religion and the Oliver Stone movie bashing Bush. Seriously, Democrats and their films it’s only going to screw them over in the end.
I see your point about Bill Maher, but doesn’t everyone pretty much hate W now?
If there’s anything to induce W nostalgia, it’s...
Why McCain Is Going To Win, Sorry
It’s true though: In the next month, watch for a backlash to the new Bill Maher movie bashing religion and the Oliver Stone movie bashing Bush. Seriously, Democrats and their films it’s only going to screw them over in the end.
Desperately Seeking Sarah →
There’s no point in talking about Sarah Palin one way or another. She pretty much strikes me as a normal politician — not particularly amazing or weak. Anyway, the best analysis I’ve seen is this piece from Julian Sanchez. If you’re interested in this stuff, you know.
GOP Prisoner's Dilemma?
mikehudack:
wiesen:
As I listen to how things went down with the bail fail this afternoon, I’m reminded of the game theory construct called the Prisoner’s Dilemma. This simulation is intended to demonstrate that in some situations the ideal outcome (cooperation) is consistently missed because individual parties perceive non-cooperation to be rational, ultimately ending in a poor outcome for...
How To Choose
One good way to pick a candidate is to pick the candidate you’d most like to see lose. As in: Which one would be angrier/more devastated/destroyed/etc. if they didn’t get to be President. You vote for their opposition. I think this time it’s pretty clear which candidate would have the harder time handling defeat.
“Parents are abandoning teenagers at Nebraska hospitals, in a case of a well...”
– Chicago Tribune (via MR)
peterfeld:
Elvis Costello’s 1982 record of...
Why McCain's Campaign Suspension Didn't Work This...
Why didn’t McCain get a bounce in the polls when he “suspended” his campaign to help broker a deal in Washington, DC? After alll, the past two times he did it, it seemed to help him.
The difference: The media. This is McCain’s first time ever running a campaign when the media wasn’t totally pulling for him. That’s why he seems so erratic. In the past, every...
Why Obama Supporters Felt He Lost The Debate
I was pretty surprised to see the divergence between the pundit class and the first opinion polls on the subject of last night’s debate. We’ll see how it plays out, but let’s assume for a second that by-and-large, undecided viewers leaned towards Obama. So why did his friends on MSNBC and the blogs think he lost?
It’s because Obama supporters have convinced themselves...
Insta-Rejection
Glenn Reynolds is really an annoying guy, but you know, election time, I like to see what he’s linking to. Anyway, sometimes I fwd him links that would be perfect fodder for some of his trademark “Instapundit” snark. Except they’re usually all kinda anti-McCain. He never posts ‘em. I don’t know why I do it. Really just wasting my time. A few times I’ve...
“Don’t ask me who won the debate in terms of persuading formerly undecided...”
– Felix Salmon
Alley 100 voting ends today, but not the... →
innonate:
My comment:
Really? You (the royal you) feel good about being in the #1 spot because you emailed your entire company to tell them to vote *for you*?? If that’s how you run your company, it’s probably equally as lame. Here’s a cool tactic: don’t ask anyone to vote for you. Then, if you’re on the list, you’re probably legit; and, when the kind folks at SAI go through the votes they...
Free Sarah Palin! by Kathryn Jean Lopez on... →
Holy shit. Even Sister Kathryn Lopez is reserving a ticket on the “drop Sarah Palin” train. That’s crazy. Am I the only person who didn’t think the Couric interview was that bad?
“Oddly, if McCain’s clumsy politics ends up inadvertently scuttling the bailout,...”
– The Agitator — McCain: “Nevermind”
“Tell stories. Even if you don’t have a perfect answer to the question, you...”
– What Sarah Palin should do next time she’s interviewed. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
“In the History of The Corner there has never been a time folks have been this...”
– National Review Online
Odd post there.
“Falconhead Capital, LLC, a private equity firm specializing in investments in...”
– Falconhead Capital Acquires Stake in Not Your Daughter’s Jeans: Financial News - Yahoo!
Finance
Not Your Daughter’s Jeans is apparently just another way of saying mom jeans.
Dear Sarah Palin
I’ve already suggested that Sarah Palin needs to go on Keith Olbermann to boost her numbers.
Barring that, she needs to come up with better answers when folks like Katie Couric ask her quesitons like “What’s your foreign policy experience”. Obviously, the Russia answer doesn’t work, because Tina Fey preemptively annulled that one. She really needs to get folksy
...
I’ll admit, that I don’t want McCain to win, so consider my bias…
But I really am flabbergasted by the impulsiveness and bizarreness of his campaign. He really does come off as Milton Friedman’s proverbial “fool in the shower”.
All that being said, Obama has been a weak, uninspiring candidate, running basically the same kind of campaign as other recent...
“Right, as opposed to the Teutonic banking system’s fixation on what, nice...”
– Paul Kedrosky: Germany: The Trouble is the “Anglo-Saxon” Banking Model (via parkparadigm)
Obama's Lead Gone
Gallup has it tied today and Zogby has McCain +2. But then, if I recall, you’re not supposed to trust Zogby. Still.
“It’s the Russo-Georgian War all over again: McCain responds...”
– Ross Douthat
Some Brilliant Advice To John McCain: Send Sarah...
For John McCain to recover, he needs to regain his Sarah Palin-induced highs. And for that to happen, Palin herself needs to bloom again. Right now she’s going in the other direction. Sure, she can rally big crowds in Florida, and that’s awesome, but outdoor rallies don’t really scale. She’ll hit 60,000 voters that way, but won’t get the whole country buzzing. It...
Mojo Nixon — “Are You Drinking With Me...
“I don’t think McCain’s decision to “suspend” his campaign today self-evidently...”
– Nate, at FiveThirtyEight.com, thinking out loud about McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign. Nate’s right, when you’re criticized by both K-Lo and Letterman you’ve misjudged something. (via election08) (via mikehudack)
I can’t believe he lost K-Lo!
The Edmond Sun, Edmond, OK - Why Obama will lose →
Apparently Barack Obama’s problem is that he’s not as statesman-like as Benjamin Franklin.
“I look at the situation as follows. Banks are bridges between savers and...”
– Marginal Revolution: Where is the Credit Crunch?
Just say his ethnicity, it doesn't make you...
I had one of those incidents yesterday where someone was trying to point out someone to me in a crowd, but he felt hesitant to describe how he actually looks.
Me: Who should I talk to on this quesiton?
Him: Actually that guy over there… the one with the sharp haircut (pointing towards a crowd)… the one not wearing a tie… the one who’s currently talking, oh he just shut...
fred-wilson:
The Gambler - Mike Doughty
The...
“Given that we would never have had the odious George W. Bush in the White House...”
– Paul Slansky: A Note to Bill Clinton
Classic HuffPo Logic.
Does anyone use Plazes anymore?
(via mikehudack)
Did anyone ever use Plazes?
“Many times during the debate, Hitchens ranted (it’s not too strong a word;...”
– Christopher Hitchens Does Believe in God — The Corner on National Review Online
“WHY IS OBAMA SO VAPID, HESITANT, AND GUTLESS?”
– Why is Obama so vapid, hesitant, and gutless? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
This is a good read, and not so ridiculous as the headline. Of course, it’s Hitch, so…
“At least we saved Goldman Sachs.”
– Hank Paulson (via gregnews) (via mikehudack)
It didn’t occur to me that that was satire at first.
“Fliers are burning through more frequent-flier miles at a time when rising fares...”
– Frequent-fliers redeem more miles as fares rise - Today in the Sky
“On greed, let me repeat: If unusually many airplanes crash during a given week,...”
– Division of Labour: On Paul Krugman’s take on the possible rescue plan