Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Dan Zak on the Gentrifying District.

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Dan Zak covers 24 hours in the life of a restaurant in Northeast.  His good article is focused on the new diner there, owned by an analyst ...

Meanwhile, in Lake Woebegone

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From NYTimes article on Dr. Redelmeier:  "“Every driver on average thinks he’s in the wrong lane,” Dr. Redelmeier said. “You think mo...

Funniest Paragraph in August

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Petula Dvorak notes t hat Glenn Beck's rally was white, Al Sharpton's black and asks: What's that all about? It's not beca...
Monday, August 30, 2010

New Deal Ag Programs Didn't Come From Nowhere

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FRom the News from 1930 blog (Wall Street Journal stories of August 29, 1931): Farm Board has received "somewhere between 500 and 1,...
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America and Land Ownership

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Ezra Klein comments on land ownership, the hook being a Forbes piece saying promoting home ownership is un-American.  I agree with him and...

Remembrance of Times Past: the Laundry Box

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 Kids are going off to college, as many of us once did.  Kids will have dirty clothes, as we did.  How do clothes get washed?  The answer ...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Vertical Farming Recap

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In Treehugge r here.

The SF-1099 Flap

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The Post runs an article o n the SF-1099 requirement, something John Phipps blogged about some months ago. Here's the description: Th...
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Love of God and Country Reign at Beck Rally

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The title should be in quotes, because that's the title MSNBC is using this morning for its coverage. Without delving into detail, how...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

An Oxymoron?

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" John Sides finds better educated Republicans grew most in believing Obama is a Muslim;" From a Pollster summary  I call it...