In the debate about whether to bail out the Big Three automakers or let them go into Chapter 11 (an issue about which I’m still genuinely on the fence), one of the commonly-repeated talking points I keep hearing from the anti-bailout crowd is that Chapter 11 would allow the automakers to “dispose of legacy costs.” [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Calling a Duck a Duck
Posted in Economics, News & Current Events, Things That Suck on November 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Nate Silver Interviews Right Wing Documentary Maker About Push Poll
Posted in Humor, Politics on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is delicious. A right wing documentary maker got Zogby to conduct a push poll designed, apparently, to make Obama voters look like idiots. Nate Silver explains why the questions are so ridiculous, misleading and inaccurate here and interviews the person who commissioned the poll here: NS: Do you stand by all the statements in [...]
Raise the Shields!
Posted in Science, Technology on November 19, 2008 |
No, really!
Help For A Little Girl
Posted in Blegging on November 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Some stole a five year old’s wheelchair — her pink, decorated with stickers and painting to her personal specifications by her friends and family wheelchair. And then tore it to pieces: A custom-built wheelchair stolen from a 5-year-old girl was recovered Tuesday but chopped up into “a million pieces,” her mother said. The $8,000-chair belongs [...]
What's a True Scotsman Christian?
Posted in Church & State, Politics, Religion on November 18, 2008 | 80 Comments »
Daniel Larison has started an interesting, but cursory, discussion on what constitutes a “Christian,” and whether or not Obama can rightly be considered one. This is a line of inquiry which has always irked me, but at the same time, given me trouble. On the one hand, we can’t have a definition of “Christian” that’s [...]
Obama to Let Torturers Off the Hook?
Posted in Politics, Torture on November 18, 2008 | 14 Comments »
This, sadly, does not surprise me: Barack Obama’s incoming administration is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush presidency. Obama, who has criticized the use of torture, is being urged by some constitutional scholars and human rights groups to [...]
Need Book Suggestions
Posted in Books on November 17, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I am once again out of books. Read anything good lately?
In Tentative Support of the GM Bailout
Posted in Economics, Politics on November 17, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I am not generally in favor of bailing out businesses. In general, businesses should be allowed to live or die as the market dictates. But I was in favor of some kind of bailout for the financial sectors, largely because I believed that the credit market really was in a dangerous place, dangerous enough to [...]
What To Do About GM?
Posted in Blegging, Economics, News & Current Events on November 14, 2008 | 21 Comments »
Seems to me that both parties are demagoguing the holy shit out of GM’s woes and what, if anything, to do about them. Speaking for myself, I’m open to being convinced in any direction. On the one hand, I’m not in love with the idea of bailing out a company that has made mistake after [...]
This Will Be Fun To Watch
Posted in Bloggin, Flame Bait, Politics on November 14, 2008 |
Patticakes solicits gloom-and-doom predictions from the PSH crowd about how Obama will ruin everything, for three time frames: after three months, after a year, and after four years. He says that after a few months, he’s going to repost samples of the predictions to see which ones have come true and which ones have proven [...]
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