February 11, 2010
January 22, 2010
January 5, 2010
Readings: Foreign Investment
Investments in emerging markets have done better than investments in the U.S. in the 2000s. China and Japan have continued to buy U.S. debt, not because they are impressed with Silicon Valley's growth potential, but in order to cripple American manufacturing by keeping the dollar artificially high and the yuan and the yen artificially low. Their debt purchases are part of their strategic industrial policies on behalf of their own export-oriented manufacturers, not a vote of confidence in future American economic dynamism.
- Michael Lind in The Clintonites Were Wrong
December 16, 2009
December 11, 2009
War is Peace
Dear President Obama,
I hate to break it to you but a non-violent movement could have halted Hitler's armies. A robust German peace movement would have stopped WWII before it started.
I hate to break it to you but a non-violent movement could have halted Hitler's armies. A robust German peace movement would have stopped WWII before it started.
December 7, 2009
Where Have all the Fishmongers Gone
My brother keeps talking about how much he misses his days in London when he had a butcher and a fishmonger on his block.
November 29, 2009
November 19, 2009
Hang It Up and Hang It Out
Earlier today, I made the hang up gesture and said "click" to emphasize it.
Then, I spent about ten minutes explaining to the 22 year old that I was talking about how I wasn't flashing a gang sign and how, in the old days, we had to literally hang up the phone in order to hang up the phone.
(photo via nypl)
Then, I spent about ten minutes explaining to the 22 year old that I was talking about how I wasn't flashing a gang sign and how, in the old days, we had to literally hang up the phone in order to hang up the phone.
(photo via nypl)
November 18, 2009
Bicycle as Doomsday Machine
In fact millions of pedestrians, standing at crosswalks, have experienced real terror, exposed as they now are to the mercy and moderation of bicycle riders, people whose lawlessness and viciousness are a matter of record...
Not only are bicycles dangerous, they are as antiquated a form of transportation as the rickshaw. In no advanced city on earth will you find civilized people cycling to work. The urban cyclist is generally a crank, either profoundly antisocial or hopelessly narcissistic and following the strenuous life in hopes of achieving immortality or a legendary sex life.- Emmett Tyrrell Jr. in the Indianapolis Star Op Ed circa 1980
(via Andrew Leonard via Copenhagenize)
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