tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66487682009-11-04T19:10:37.992-06:00Negative Outlook?anything to help advance the causePeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comBlogger368125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-78285372188439191292009-11-04T08:13:00.000-06:002009-11-04T08:13:36.998-06:00
Obama was elected a year ago today. Here he is in Raleigh North Carolina in April of last year. Check out the dog whistle at 2:20. He said he learned it from his aide Reggie Love. I am glad Obama asked Hillary to be Secretary of State and she is doing a good job.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-34623413943010328662009-11-02T13:09:00.001-06:002009-11-02T13:09:13.462-06:00Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-77987724612630191882009-11-02T13:03:00.000-06:002009-11-02T13:04:01.030-06:00Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-45387922971873639302009-11-02T12:33:00.008-06:002009-11-04T19:10:38.004-06:00
Jonesin
As that great epistemologist Donald Rumsfeld once said there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns and as a lot of people say the truly smart people are those who are aware how much they don't know.
Lorrie Moore mentioned in an interview that her Internet reading includes Wikipedia,* as does mine. It's always showing you how much you don't know. And on Wikipedia I Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-48330968220294833492009-11-02T12:19:00.003-06:002009-11-02T13:03:08.435-06:00Krugmania"The Defining Moment""Too Little of a Good Thing"Deficit hawks like to complain that today’s young people will end up having to pay higher taxes to service the debt we’re running up right now. But anyone who really cared about the prospects of young Americans would be pushing for much more job creation, since the burden of high unemployment falls disproportionately on young workers - andPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-69739096015146480142009-11-02T12:04:00.005-06:002009-11-04T19:07:43.404-06:00
Pregnant Pause
"Highway 61 Revisited"*
Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on."
God say "No," Abe say "What?"
God say "You can do what you want Abe, but
the next time you see me you better run."
[Pregnant Pause]
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."
Reviews ofPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-8153985929375285292009-09-26T10:04:00.011-05:002009-11-04T19:08:13.096-06:00Hard to Be Soft, Tough to Be Tender
Noble-prize winning economists Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen believe we need another metric other than G.D.P. (gross domestic product) which measures sustainable growth with an eye towards human welfare. Toronto-based band Metric (sounds like the Pixies):
Inglourious Basterd (...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead) HUGO STIGLITZ (no relation):
Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-86894025771409823052009-09-26T09:42:00.002-05:002009-09-26T09:58:50.800-05:00This new derby movie directed by Drew Barrymore looks like it could be good. Ellen Page stars as Babe Ruthless and Barrymore's character is Smashly Simpson (does she not like Ashly or are they friends?). Kristin Wiig is Maggie Mayhem, Eve is Rosa Sparks, Zoe Bell is Bloody Holly, Ari Graynor is Eva Destruction, Juliette Lewis is Iron Maven, and looks like Andrew Wilson (brother of Luke and Owen)Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-37415000317228095742009-09-12T10:16:00.000-05:002009-09-12T10:18:14.222-05:00Hate, Love, Chores: Lorrie Moore’s Midwest Chronicle by Motoko RichLast Year’s Role Model by Lorrie MoorePeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-8241523930349278662009-09-12T09:24:00.002-05:002009-09-12T09:29:45.051-05:00How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? by Paul KrugmanLehman Had to Die So Global Finance Could Live by Joe NoceraMartin Wolf interviews Nouriel RoubiniPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-69625227824682698052009-08-29T11:22:00.003-05:002009-09-26T10:29:33.352-05:00And though the news was rather sad, well I just had to laughMichiko Kakutani's review of "A Gate at the Stairs.""Eyes Wide Open" by Jonathan LethemPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-7274341650310394832009-08-29T10:57:00.003-05:002009-09-11T19:46:40.253-05:00From "In Fed We Trust," by David WesselBarney Frank, the congressman from Massachusetts, proposed declaring Monday, September 15, to be Free Market Day. On Sunday, the Fed and the Treasury let Lehman fail; on Tuesday, they took over AIG. "The national commitment to the free market lasted one day," Frank said. "It was Monday."Article on Barney Frank in the Boston Globe.Frank on Planet Money.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-91834420104489035172009-08-24T20:28:00.002-05:002009-08-26T21:54:14.945-05:00Obamacare: It's People!Rick Perlstein's In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition: Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage(via Krugman)Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-41391932625418966712009-08-22T13:04:00.004-05:002009-08-24T20:26:56.134-05:00Along with the Coen brothers, Terry Gilliam and John Waters, one of favorite moviemakers is John Carpenter. He made Escape from New York, The Thing, They Live and Big Trouble in Little China, which the Onion features in its "Better Late Than Never?" section. Also Quentin Tarantino is good, and his new movie Inglourious Basterds is his best since Pulp Fiction.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-70311003826491090782009-08-15T09:38:00.003-05:002009-08-15T09:40:47.542-05:00"That's what we like about you, Mulder. Your ideas are even weirder than ours."John Fitzgerald Byers (Bruce Harwood) was once a public relations worker for the FCC. He was a conservative dresser with a neatly trimmed beard, a stark contrast to his grungier comrades. He had at least some working knowledge of medicine, genetics and chemistry and is known for the famous line, "That's what we like Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-72135059490802539142009-08-15T09:35:00.001-05:002009-08-15T09:35:59.682-05:00Happy Birthdays to India and Julia Child (if she was still around).Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-4125039526014162342009-08-09T12:48:00.002-05:002009-08-09T12:51:01.045-05:00Solitary Crow On Fence Post Portending Doom, Analysts WarnThe wingèd harbinger of our own condemnation.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-41009270926655827492009-08-09T12:41:00.002-05:002009-08-09T12:46:50.921-05:00Run Crying to MamaThe funniest moment for me during the Great Panic was when the freewheeling global investment banks reverted to regular national banks.Adding to questions about Mr. Paulson’s role, critics say, is the fact that Goldman Sachs was among a group of banks that received substantial government assistance during the turmoil. Goldman not only received $13 billion in taxpayer money as a Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-60263646285592338122009-08-09T12:17:00.003-05:002009-08-15T09:35:06.676-05:00Lollapalooza yesterday had Gomez, Coheed & Cambria and Tool. (Unfortunately the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played at the same time as Tool.)Tonight there's a show at a small venue with Josh Homme of the the Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. It sold out quickly. In 1999 a friend got us tickets to a Halloween show at the same place with the Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age whichPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-30021986407778881402009-07-19T11:13:00.003-05:002009-07-23T09:43:55.031-05:00Sometimes William Safire's On Language column makes me laugh:The geezersphere will remember the previous vogue use of model to describe the willowy women on whom clothes designers draped their creations. That word’s meaning was later applied by captious caption writers to any attractive female in a tabloid’s photos. (I had a date once in the 1950s with the model Nancy Berg, who along with the Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-38719832740836536302009-07-11T09:11:00.005-05:002009-08-26T21:54:57.944-05:00The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Taibbi Taibbi mentions Time magazine's Dewey Defeats Truman cover:It became almost a national cliche that whatever Rubin thought was best for the economy - a phenomenon that reached its apex in 1999, when Rubin appeared on the cover of Time with his Treasury deputy, Larry Summers, and Fed chief Alan Greenspan under the headline THE COMMITTEE TO SAVE THE Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-5475760440893454832009-07-06T18:42:00.001-05:002009-07-06T18:45:02.406-05:00Hitchens on Iran and Iraq.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-83596197478394806312009-07-01T18:43:00.000-05:002009-07-01T18:44:09.253-05:00Krugman on Charlie RosePeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-90792668268778055732009-06-29T18:40:00.003-05:002009-06-29T18:51:51.914-05:00Transformers: ROTFHow Michael Bay met Obama.Michael Bay finally made an art movie by Charlie Jane Anders.(via Yglesias).Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648768.post-18598284690439906962009-06-20T10:40:00.002-05:002009-06-20T10:42:39.755-05:00You know when the apolitical jocks start showing solidarity it's serious business.(via Andrew Sullivan who is overdue for a mental health break.)Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.com