The Stopped Clock

Political discussion and ranting, premised upon the fact that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Most Exciting Superhero Since "Too Much Coffee Man"

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I don't know how the concept ever occurred to them , but .... Movie star and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger is developing a TV show an...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Pay No Attention to the Woman Behind the Curtain

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Powerful, one might say overwhelming evidence of cheating behind D.C.'s improvement in standardized test scores under Michelle Rhee. Mc...

Paging Nelson Mandela... As Played by Morgan Freeman

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Although on rare occasion assuring us that he doesn't see the solution to the world's problems as lying in the hands of "magic ...

Strategizing Without Overthinking

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Tom Ricks is continuing to emphasize a nation's limited ability to achieve strategic clarity before going to war: These notes I get fro...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

What Would Be a "Successful" Outcome in Libya

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Many people have observed that the coalition going into Libya has not articulated what "success" would look like. You can find opt...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Shoot First, Ask Questions Later?

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Compare and contrast David Brooks : More important, the nations have not really defined what they hope to achieve. Is the coalition tryin...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Ross Douthat: "Don't Know Much About History"

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After writing a pretty decent column ( save for his inability to state an opinion ) on the lack of a case for military intervention in Libya...

Which Type of College Degree Program To Drop Out Of....

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The New York Times shares the opinions of Harvard drop-out Bill Gates and Reed College drop-out Steve Jobs, who respectively urge students ...
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On Budget Issues, Thomas Friedman Misses the Mark

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Thomas Friedman laments that as the world suffers at the whim of " the two most merciless forces on earth : the market and Mother Natur...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Facebook Wants to Eat Everybody's Lunch... And Vice Versa

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Apparently we're verging on a world in which everybody is on AOL and, as websites are difficult to make, everybody is making free pages ...

A Craigslist Version of Groupon?

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One of the interesting things about the battle to "take on Groupon" is how much money is being thrown at LivingSocial and at any n...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Tea Party Echoes of "Clinging to Guns and Religion"

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According to former Member of Congress Tom Davis (R-VA) on Real Time, Bill, what has happened is people aren't voting their pocketbook....
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Cancel the Backscatter Order

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Due to a " calculation error " (i.e., incompetence), the radiation levels produced by backscatter X-ray body scanners was underest...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Why Stay in a Bad Job....

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Seth Godin offers something of a challenge to dissatisfied workers: You might very well be doing a good job. But that doesn't mean you...
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And Yet... Everybody Will Still Die

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Paul Krugman correctly notes that we can't fix the budget problems created by Medicare and Medicaid simply by cutting spending. Think of...

A Weak Case for War

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If you follow Eunomia , the recent New York Times columns by Ross Douthat and Anne-Marie Slaughter on the possibility of military interven...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Lawyers, Stop Stealing Content!

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Google recently implemented an update to its search engine algorithm. The update, commonly known as "Farmer" but also referred to...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Running?

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My tired eyes read "ruining", but I guess that doesn't really change the question .
Monday, March 07, 2011

Social Security as a "Welfare Program"

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Robert Samuelson could have written a much shorter column than this , We don't call Social Security "welfare" because it's...

Oh, Does It?

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E.D. Kain writes , If Democrats truly have set a date to return to Wisconsin, it means they have a plan. Sometimes it feels like Democratic ...
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