May 2009 Archives

I suppose it strikes me as unlikely that California's budget problems are unusually intractable because California's citizens as unusually unreasonable.

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Edmund Andrews' piece in The New York Times Magazine on how her, personally got sucked into the vortex of bad debts and unsustainable lifestyles is one of the best things I've read in a long time.

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Back in November, of Indianians who told exit pollsters they were most interested in health care 68 percent voted for Obama.

Not really a typo, but as a former Hoosier, I had to call him on it.

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The kids are allright.

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There was never an intention of creating a standing 60 vote supermajority rule in the Senate, and for the vast majority of American history filibustering was a routine measure rather than an everyday thing. Now that it's become routine, the situation is untenable and it's urgent to start looking for a path to shifting to majority rule.

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It's true that the carbon tax I would design would be better policy than the cap-and-trade program congress is designing, but by the same token the cap-and-trade program I would design is better than the carbon tax law congress would right.

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the general idea is that a doctor will continue practicing for decades after leaving medical nurse

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As you can see with the easy assistance of the OMB's historical tables, we're in the midst of a pretty giant stimulus-driven runup in federal spending:

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When I took microeconomics in college, at least one entire lecture was spent explaining to the class what graphs were, how to read them, and how to make them. At the time, I wondered who would ever make it to a college class without knowing how to make a proper, readable graph. Now I know.

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ut if unemployment breaches 10 percent

All Matt needed to do was copy-and-paste this, but sometimes grabbing that first letter is hard, I guess.

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As you can probably tell, our effort to definitively document all of Matt's many typos has failed. We went into this expecting to put up a post or two per day and we were overwhelmed by the volume of posts we needed to make. Reading Matt's posts became more of a chore than anything else, and we gave up.

But now we're back. We're no longer attempting to document every typo, but as things jump out at us, we'll be throwing them up on the site.

Which is unusually in the United States.

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One is that obviously Israel's nuclear program is not a direct security concern for the United States in the way Israel's is.

Matt has since corrected this on his site.

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All the cool blogs of have-of-day quick link roundup posts.

I have no idea what Matt was trying to say here.

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