The people who will really decide whether health-care reform succeeds or fails
Ezra Klein: "We don't really know if his success can be replicated. But somebody's can be."
[bookmark]Monday, January 24, 2011
Ezra Klein: "We don't really know if his success can be replicated. But somebody's can be."
[bookmark]Sunday, January 16, 2011
Manifest Density: "It’s disrespectful to let writing’s constituent elements bleed into one another through imprecise demarcations. If you see me ‘making mistakes with comma placement’, please rest assured that I’m doing it deliberately."
[bookmark]Stuck on Lou: "Those people understandably assumed that their zodiac signs would remain consistent for the rest of their lives. Other announcements that could render seemingly timeless tattoos embarrassingly outdated [...]"
[bookmark]Tuesday, January 11, 2011
ars technica: "One interpretation of the data is that the deepest interior regions of the Moon have similar structure to the inner regions of the Earth."
[bookmark]Friday, January 07, 2011
Giles Bowkett: "It's simply impossible to come up with status updates that make sense to every group. For instance, my parents recently encountered rattlesnakes on their property, and I proposed a system for preventing this which they rejected for, as far as I can tell, being too logical and too likely to succeed. If this was a topic of discussion on my Facebook page, my programmer friends would focus on the system, my actor friends would focus on the experience of encountering rattlesnakes - as well as the experience of attempting to talk sense into crazy people - while my high school friends would tell me what was going on with their own parents, and my raver friends would go off on a crazy tangent and start making jokes about peyote. These are all pretty great ways to deal with this kind of news, but not at the same time."
[bookmark]Marco: "Part of what exacerbates this is the apparent explosion recently of cheap-‘content’ sites that try to answer every search query ever asked. Like affiliate-marketing spam, much of it seems to be generated by humans (technically — I wouldn’t classify them as such), but it’s functionally useless: sites like About.com, eHow, and countless clones with .info domain names that promise to address every niche question and informational topic, but whose content lacks all quality and substance."
[bookmark]Monday, January 03, 2011
msnbc.com: "The next most popular way -- chosen by 20 percent -- was to cut defense spending."
[bookmark]Sunday, January 02, 2011
Yglesias: "The US, the Eurozone, and Japan are so terrified that real growth might lead to growth-imperiling inflation that we’ve just decided to live without the growth in the first place."
[bookmark]Scripting News: "Another thing that's socialist is sickness. Like snow, it's universal. Everyone gets sick, sooner or later."
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