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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books put together quite a session on climate change at USC today. You can watch our CSPAN podcast. I had several friends in the audience and I tried to be funny and interesting. The other participants were top notch people. I have read the books Salt and Cod by Mark Kurlansky [...]
Archive for April, 2011
April 30th, 2011
Homeostasis and regression to the mean trump Freud and Larkin.
April 29th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
None of the people who promoted birtherism will suffer at all professionally or politically from the revelation of its utter falsity.
April 28th, 2011
Category: Conservatism, Health Care
Some guy at Cato believes I am a leftist authoritarian for supporting Medicare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board
April 28th, 2011
Category: Built Environment, Energy and Environment, Infrastructure, Republican Party, Transportation, Watching Conservatives
The New York Times reports this morning: The Christie administration, lenders and a new developer have reached a deal to revive the vast Xanadu entertainment and retail complex, which sits forlorn and unfinished along a stretch of New Jersey highway after having burned through two owners and $1.9 billion, people involved in the negotiations said [...]
April 28th, 2011
Category: Watching Conservatives
None of the birthers, and none of the birther fellow-travelers, has come out and said “I was wrong.” Which tells you all you need to know.
April 28th, 2011
Category: Economics
These guys are amazing. Round I was better, but this is still great.
April 28th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
In suburban New Jersey, solar panels are being installed on telephone poles. The people are debating whether this is progress. A few quotes from the NY Times article; “Sean Smith, a 43-year-old airline sales supervisor in Fair Lawn, said he was fine with the seven panels on his street, especially “if it’s helping the greenhouse [...]
April 27th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
How will McDonalds adjust and evolve in a “Peak Burger” world? Will its profit shrink to zero? Will this corporate giant collapse as every cow is plucked and it can no longer make their tasty healthy fries? While a Sober Mel Gibson fought hard for gasoline in “Mad Max”, will future Gibsons really be fighting over [...]