By Feb 02,2009

Business school

This may be the classic Harvard Business School post. Bury the lede, offer up an endless anecdote about a popular WASP pastime, such as fishing, kiss Malcolm Gladwell’s ass, and...

By Feb 02,2009

Our Post-Racial Future

This screencap from the WSJ has been circulating around the blogosphere: Yeah, definitely not OK. But what about this from TPM? Cuz, you know, he’s BLACK! Like Dre and Ice...

By Feb 01,2009

Shock Doctrine Stimulus

Reading the back and forth between Ross and Yglesias about the stimulus, I’m struck by something. Writes Matt: Second, with a lot of this stuff whether or not it really...

By Feb 01,2009

Mea culpa…

I wrote a few snarky things in this post (itself about the nature of snark) and the comments about Freddie that I probably shouldn’t have, and I apologize. I stand...

By Feb 01,2009

New rocket fire from Gaza

The Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli planes launched air strikes in response to the firing of 15 Qassam rockets from Gaza. Shmuel Rosner: Add these [rockets] to the rocket launched...