May 2009
62 posts
Be The Miracle Berry Guy
ideaprovince:
Want to be a party hijacker? Joe Weisenthal has an idea for you.
Every time you’re invited to a party, buy a bunch of miracle berries (West African berries that make sour foods taste sweet) and fill a backpack with sour foods like lemons, tamarind, rhubarb, grapefruits, and limes. Go to the party and hang out like an average anonymous party-goer for a few minutes, just to get a...
“How long does it take a mild-mannered, antiwar, black professor of...”
– How Long It Took : Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
Alexander Cockburn goes off. Liberals turning on Obama for being Bush III.
Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney →
“Lil Wizzy said: May. 20, 9:11 PM
Henry,
Does thinking that Joe...”
– Please Help Us Hire Great New Writers! (via jayyarow)
Joseph Weisenthal — “Diet”
So,...
peterfeld:
“Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down,”...
The best way to kill innovation (and Health 2.0)...
jayparkinsonmd:
From the excellent book, The Innovator’s Prescription:
Those disruptors that successfully dismantled the regulations that stood in their way succeeded by circumventing the regulation—by innovating in a disruptive market that was beyond the regulators’ reach or was peripheral to their vision. Regulations ultimately change in reaction to the innovators’ success in those...
“Data from Mexico is extremely telling in this regard. There has been a massive...”
– Sad End to the Immigration Issue
“Let’s see here. You think when mothers kill their own babies, it is just fine,...”
– Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
On the hogwash that anti- and pro-abortionists can and should find common ground.
“What this means is that while shipping rates should track the cost to ship...”
– Baltic Dry Index as a Reliable Forward Indicator? Nonsense
My old co-blogger Vincent discussing the correlation (or lack thereof) between the Baltic Dry Index and shipping stocks. I found this line to be particularly deep.
“CALABASAS, Calif., June 27 /PRNewswire/ — La Opinion named Countrywide...”
– Countrywide Home Loans Recognized as Best Corporation by Latino Community
Ah, the year 2000. Back when a subprime lender was celebrated by Latinos for doing so much for the community.
Now that same activity is called ‘reverse redlining’.
“If anything, the subprime/minority scandal would make sense in a different...”
– Subprime Lending And Minority Foreclosures: What’s The Real Link?
From my takedown of the NYT piece on minorities and foreclosures.
“If you enjoy Harvard professors leaping out of exploding helicopters and using a...”
– The American Conservative: Christianity by Dan Brown
Sadly, I do in fact like Harvard professors jumping out of exploding helicopters. Can’t wait to see Angels & Demons.
Joseph Weisenthal — “I’ve Got...
“Witnessing Bob Dylan’s participation in Pepsi’s cloying, Super Bowl-launched ad...”
– The American Conservative » Shill.He.Is
“The Palestinians suffered two tragedies. The first was to lose the war in 1948...”
– Ed West
“OK, I have to share this one. Take 517 sequential heart attack victims and...”
– Hyperlipid: Cholesterol and heart attack survival
What, people with low cholesterol are more likely to die from a heart attack than people with high cholesterol who get heart attacks?
Hey Peter Feld, call the health fascists and tell them to start taxing vegetables.
peterfeld:
“Six Days On The Road,” original 1963...
The social [media] contract
ninety9:
…37 Signals Kool Aid.
Why Liberals Tolerate Obama's Gay Marriage Stance
It’s obvious.
It’s because they assume he’s being dishonest and disingenuous when he says he believes marriage is for a 1 man and 1 woman.
They assume he’s lying for the sake of political expedience.
On the other hand, they suspect Sarah Palin and Ms. California are actually telling the truth about their beliefs.
You can see why the latter is much more outrageous, yah?
Obama's War On Terror
I think, basically, the plan is to continue the war on terror completely as is, but in a media-friendly way.
Obama's Indefinite Detention
Remember all the hootin’ and hollerin’ when Obama said he’d close Gitmo and actually followed through with it on almost his first day in office?
Can we at least agree now that that was PURELY cosmetic, since it doesn’t change the status of the detainees one bit?
“The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on...”
– Indefinite Detention Weighed for Detainees - WSJ.com
Hey look guys, indefinite detention! You know, that shit you freaked out about Bush doing.
“According to Gail Civille, in the past Americans typically chewed a mouthful of...”
– The decline of chewing
Legislation Coming This Week To Guarantee All Muni... →
mattlehrer:
This isn’t surprising but then oil at $200 per barrel by 2012 won’t be either. At least the “we believe in a strong dollar policy” rhetoric is gone… for now. I’m kind of excited to see if China responds to this.
Joseph Weisenthal — “Come With...
In Praise of Anonymous Sources
johncarney:
I’m always amazed when people complain about stories based on anonymous sources. In general, anonymous sources about politics or finance are better than people who are willing to speak on the record. That’s because politics and finance don’t reward openness and honesty, so anyone willing to speak to you is probably lying. Anonymous sources lie and have agendas as well, but at least...
A Critical Reading Of The Film 'Obsessed'
Saw the movie Obsessed with Brooke this evening. It had a really straightforward message, which was
HEY BLACK WOMEN, those devil-slut white women that you think are trying to steal your good men; they really are devil-sluts, and they really are trying to steal your men.
BUT, your husband — who’s as good looking, successful and as stable as Idris Alba (Stringer Bell) —...
“I think we should respect the *strict* interpretation of the constitution. It...”
– a comment on Gotham Gal’s post on gun control
Gotham Gal:Gun control
(via fred-wilson)
A very, very bad idea, either way. I assume Gotham Gal and Fred aren’t really proposing a totalist view of “arms.” It’s what they call a reductio ad absurdum.
The only serious proposal is that we interpret...
“The conventional wisdom of the Obama Era appears to be that the solution to...”
– Today’s Universal Preschool Conventional Wisdom
(Re)Blog for our Cause
goods4good:
This is exciting. Blogging add-on service Zemanta is planning to donate $3000 to five charities who get reblogged the most before June 6. We know we’re new on Tumblr, but we’re going to give this a try.
What can Goods for Good do with $3000? A lot.
Consider some of this:
$39 clothes 80 orphans in Malawi
$250 buys toys for 4 nursery schools at Consol Homes Orphan Care
$1,057...
“Among values voters, fully 30 percent of the electorate, McCain won 65 percent...”
– The American Conservative » Hope for the GOP
Pat Buchanan is right here. The only people pushing for the GOP to go more middle of the road or more liberal are middle of the road liberals who will never vote for the GOP either way.
“I’m having a hard time keeping this straight: Apparently, many of the same...”
– The Volokh Conspiracy
Unfortunately for Ninety9 this Obama-hedge fund story is getting all kinds of attention.
