Bookroll

- I Am A Strange Loop
- Douglas Hofstadter

- 3 wds: Deep, insightful, correct
- Why We Lost The ERA
- Palle Yourgrau

- 3 wds: Thorough, researched, slow
Tweets
Want to ask @PublicDebt if the Fed Gov't ever refinances the public debt, but apparently they don't respond to tweets.
1 day agoKrugman uses his much larger stage to point out what I was tweeting re Romney on Wed. Thanks PK! http://t.co/yeFoiRK7
1 day agois hoping that @ezraklein will elucidate whether "someone else gained" the $2b that JPMorgan lost http://t.co/iGefo4wN
3 days agoI bet $10,000 that Romney can't point me to who "gained" in JPMorgan's $2bil mark-to-market loss http://t.co/iGefo4wN
3 days ago
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Google: Trouble, Thy Gender is Female?
Without spoling the plot, last night on Gilmore Girls: Rory goes to the library looking for a book for her gender studies class, specifically Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. Paris finds the book for Rory and hands it to her, cover-side … Continue reading
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Grey Lady Publishes (Fabricates?) Casus belli Against Iran
Here we go again. Today, the New York Times front-pages an article that claims Iran is the source of deadly roadside bombs in Iraq. The source for this accusation? Anonymous administration officials. No experts or skeptics were interviewed; no independent … Continue reading
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0 Down, 60-some-odd to go
Yesterday was the first American politics General exam meeting. Yikes, the reading list is huge. In essence, we have to read 60 books in 90 days. Given that I read half a book yesterday, but it was for class and … Continue reading
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Forgive me Thomas Jefferson, for I have sinned
I beg forgiveness today to the “father” of the Democratic Party, Mr Jefferson, for my recent transgressions. At a dinner party at a Prof’s house a few nights ago, a fellow graduate student was telling a story that involved him … Continue reading
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