January 2011
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“Now is the time to ask yourself: Do you want to be a part of the next wave of...”
– Personal Branding Disorders
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December 2010
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Maybe money does buy happiness? →
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“It’s either a road map for the future, or an alignment of the stars, the...”
– Senior official, White House on Nawa, Afghanistan in ”Afghan Strategy’s Proving Ground”
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“I’m glad to see that the quality of discussion over possible US efforts to...”
– Overseeing state secrecy: In defense of WikiLeaks
November 2010
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Shoppers, Retailers Divided on Seasonal... →
It has a name: “Christmas Creep”
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“That’s why we feel this urge to gather by the tens of thousands to surge through...”
– NY Times, Born to run the Marathon?
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October 2010
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“It does not matter much if you make change, if you do not communicate change”
– J. Ann Selzer, in Bloomberg Business week
thanks @bwstud
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Decorative Gourds →
thank Elias
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September 2010
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Midwest states expected to lose house seats; Ohio... →
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High Speed Rail →
A provocative rebuke from Cato of the potential of high-speed passenger rail in the US. To consider:
“The fact that American freight railroads are profitable while European passenger lines are not suggests that freight, not passengers, is the highest and best use of a railroad system in most places.”
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“Average Americans are noticing what wise economists have been arguing for quite...”
– There Is Only One Way Out of the Recession, Brookings Institute, August 26, 2010
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August 2010
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“The lesson for American voters is that their president, for all his flaws, has...”
– General Motors: Government Motors No More, The Economist
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Building a Nation of Know-Nothings →
Discouraging, but eye-opening.
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July 2010
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“Among the highly educated and liberal, meanwhile, the lack of contact with...”
– Ross Douthat, “The Roots of White Anxiety” in today’s NYT
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“Health care reform, financial regulation reform, and energy reform are the main...”
– Christian E. Weller in “Obama’s Pro-Market Economics”
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“Amazing would be too typical and perfect would be unfair.”
– Lil Wayne, on his lyrics from time out jail
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Cut Down on Avian Carnage With New Bird-Safe... →
Today’s rather startling fact: second to habitat encroachment, bird collisions with windows are the leading cause of avian deaths worldwide.
Possible solution? Create buildings with structures that birds recognize.
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36-1 →
“For every dollar invested in the [mobile medical van’s] operations, an estimated $36—in avoided ER visits, in prevention of diseases, in management of chronic illnesses that can spiral out of control—has been saved. The Family Van spared the health-care system more than $20 million last year, and it did that on a meager budget of half a million dollars.”
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WatchOne thing I learned today: Nigeria has had the “equivalent of an Exxon Valdez worth of oil spilled on their land every year since 1969.”
The clip, which features Atlantic correspondant Lisa Margonelli on the moral question of off-shore drilling moratoriums, is absolutely worth a watch.
via
June 2010
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In Defense of Fun for Our Leaders →
“The mind needs downtime. Non-work actually increases productivity.”
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But what about vanity plates? →
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“The world runs on an oil economy. Political analysts ask why Obama has been slow...”
– -Mark Floegel of Greenpeace writing on Politico
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WatchMini challenges Porsche to…a race?