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Archive for July, 2009
July 14th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Turkish PM Erdogan has condemned as genocide the recent events in Xinjiang, which is more than mildly ironic given the Turkish allergy to any discussion of the Armenian genocide during Ottoman times.
July 13th, 2009
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy
Three readers took issue with my worry about museums keeping the wolf from the door by renting their space for parties and events. In fact, I’m pretty ambivalent about this; as Mark has pointed out here, museums are a better first date than almost anywhere and should be open many more evenings. Movies and shows [...]
July 13th, 2009
Sir Jonathan Sacks pens an empty Jeremiad about moral decline in Britain.
July 13th, 2009
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of the real jewels in the Bay Area’s cultural/educational crown. My wife and daughter-the-middle-school-math-and-science-teacher and I spent the day there, revisiting a place we knew well when the kids were younger. It seemed that Cannery Row has become at least thirty percent more schlocky and touristy over the last [...]
July 10th, 2009
Category: Energy and Environment
I guess we can stop telling fairy tales about the climate change bill improving in the Senate. To the contrary, the corn/agriculture/ethanol Democrats, having thrown the science under the bus in the House, are preparing to back up and run over it again, just to be sure. The Iowa Democrat, a major advocate for ethanol, [...]
July 10th, 2009
Category: Health Care
More people will donate to help people they know than will donate to help strangers, but the donor might not be a match for the person he wants to save. The solution, says Virginia Postrel, is called a “donor chain.”
July 10th, 2009
Adam Schiff did not sign the Blue Dog letter and in fact supports a robust public option. That’s good new — but why did AP suggest otherwise?
July 9th, 2009
Adam Schiff used to claim that he favored health care reform. Now that he’s got a safe seat, he’s joined the Blue Dogs and is busy undermining the House leadership. Should I be surprised or disgusted?