Thoreau gets to the crux of the matter
A man after my own heart.
Labels: academia, Krugman, scholarship
I am a sensible moderate of modest non-elite learning and intelligence who stays on top of the news by obsessively reading serious and reliable non-elite news sources like The Weakly Standard, The Natural Review, The New Pravda, and the Washington Poop. I try to live up to the standards that these non-elitist journals have set for accuracy, relevance and truthiness. (with apologies to Jon Swift.)
"... a low information voter ... linear ..." - Lambert Strether
A man after my own heart.
Labels: academia, Krugman, scholarship
Back-to-back GOP trainwrecks!
Labels: 2008 campaign
Palin a John Bircher?
Labels: John Birch Society, Kristol, Palin, Republicans
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002976265
An internal investigation by the popular online market Intrade has revealed that a single investor’s purchases prompted “unusual” price swings that significantly boosted the prediction that Sen. John McCain will become president.
Over the past several weeks, the investor has pushed hundreds of thousands of dollars into one of Intrade’s predictive markets for the presidential election, the company said, resulting in repeated monetary losses through a strategy that belies any financial motive.
Obama and the Chicago Seven
Yes, we know we're awful and you hate us, but the Dems will be worse (and did you know that Obama is black?)
Labels: 2008 campaign, Republicans