Happy Birthday to Richard Hell, 64.
Still shut down, but we still need good stuff, don't we?
1. Interesting: Brad DeLong rapidly losing confidence in Barack Obama. I'm okay with the Summers trial balloon, and with not fighting after it was shot down; I'm not so okay with the two month delay part of it.
2. Yeah, Russia isn't exactly running the world; Dan Drezner is right about that.
3. I suppose I have to link to Jimmy Kimmel on this one.
4. And the Jews -- Pew has lots of numbers.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Buck Showalter, 56.
A little good stuff:
1. Nathaniel Beck on youth unemployment and the NYT op-ed page. At the Monkey Cage.
2. The 1884 presidential election. By county. The not-quite-yet Solid South. Great stuff from Erik Loomis.
3. And Dan Larison on "expantionist" Russia, Iran, and others
A little good stuff:
1. Nathaniel Beck on youth unemployment and the NYT op-ed page. At the Monkey Cage.
2. The 1884 presidential election. By county. The not-quite-yet Solid South. Great stuff from Erik Loomis.
3. And Dan Larison on "expantionist" Russia, Iran, and others
Saturday, December 10, 2011
What Mattered This Week?
As usual, start with Europe.
Surprisingly, the Russian elections. The Monkey Cage has quite a bit on this, for those interested. Syria, Egypt, and other related places as well. Pakistan.
That cloture failed on Richard Cordray is important, albeit not unexpected. That Barack Obama hinted that he might finally use recess appointments is a bigger deal, especially if he's re-elected.
Mostly I don't expect that either Barack Obama's big speech this week or the fighting over UI/payroll tax extensions will matter all that much. The budgetary stuff matters, but the skirmishes around it? Not that much, would be my guess.
Republicans began to take aim at Newt Gingrich. Don't expect a rapid knockout, but it certainly matters going forward -- it's going to be a lot harder for Newt's spin to be accepted on anything with so many party opinion leaders gunning for him. Not sure if that adds up to "matters", but the process rolls along that way.
They found a warm, Earth-like planet. No word yet on whether it has mountains; if so, we're obviously doomed. (Yes, I miss Herman Cain). Seriously, though, I have no idea whether that kind of thing matters or not.
What else? What do you think mattered this week?
Surprisingly, the Russian elections. The Monkey Cage has quite a bit on this, for those interested. Syria, Egypt, and other related places as well. Pakistan.
That cloture failed on Richard Cordray is important, albeit not unexpected. That Barack Obama hinted that he might finally use recess appointments is a bigger deal, especially if he's re-elected.
Mostly I don't expect that either Barack Obama's big speech this week or the fighting over UI/payroll tax extensions will matter all that much. The budgetary stuff matters, but the skirmishes around it? Not that much, would be my guess.
Republicans began to take aim at Newt Gingrich. Don't expect a rapid knockout, but it certainly matters going forward -- it's going to be a lot harder for Newt's spin to be accepted on anything with so many party opinion leaders gunning for him. Not sure if that adds up to "matters", but the process rolls along that way.
They found a warm, Earth-like planet. No word yet on whether it has mountains; if so, we're obviously doomed. (Yes, I miss Herman Cain). Seriously, though, I have no idea whether that kind of thing matters or not.
What else? What do you think mattered this week?
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