2013-05-27

Beautiful day today

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Just heard   Tubthumping  on the radio. Even though it's by a group of wacky anarcho-punksters , it's one of my favorite feel-good s...
2012-02-03

Arnold Kling on education reform

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I think this is about right: before policy makers have figured out how to get everyone into college, college will have become obsolete.
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2012-01-25

Irony alert: Another professor departs academia to focus on teaching

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The latest example, Sebastian Thrun leaving Stanford for Udacity , comes via Glenn Reynolds . As I recall, Edward Tufte , author of the ...
2011-12-23

Good for GoDaddy

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They listened to their customers and decided to withdraw support for SOPA.
2011-12-21

The Mythbusters guys are fighting the "Stop Online Piracy Act"

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Here's what he Adam Savage has to say about SOPA in Popular Mechanics: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It Soon the U....
2011-09-11

Epic FAIL by BCPS school board task force

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County Councilman David Marks is appalled : An Inexcusable Vote by the School Board Task Force For the past several months, a task force has...
2011-09-10

Use "but" and "therefore" . . . not "and then"

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone on how to tell a story : Via Andrew Sullivan
2011-09-08

The determinants of economic growth

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Jerry Pournelle's message to President Obama: My general principle is that economic growth happens when energy is cheap and there is a ...
2011-09-06

"Black English as linguistic progress"

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Language nerd John McWhorter rocks. Superb interviewerer Josh Knobe asks good short questions and gets out of the way: The next segment is ...
2011-09-01

7 questions government agencies should ask themselves before creating any new regulation

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Veronique de Rugy has a good list over at NRO's The Corner . Is there a large, systemic problem that is unlikely to resolve itself in t...
2011-08-31

When a calm, polite, team-playing PTA president like Julie Sugar reaches her "boiling point" . . .

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. . . you know that something is deeply wrong with the recent performance of the BCPS school board. From her recent editorial on the Sun w...
2011-08-30

Low-cost, flexible Megabus from the private sector vs. budget-busting, inflexible high-speed rail from the public sector

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Michael Barone spots the winner . It seems to me that two rarely-made comparisons work against high-speed rail : Any kind of railroad ...
2011-08-27

Congressional job approval ratings near all time low

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From the Gallup website :
2011-08-26

Cause & effect: Why gerrymandering is a root cause of so many ills in the US Congress & state legislatures

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[UPDATE: Most people yawn at the issue of gerrymandering, but I think it is a critical problem. I drew this chart partly to clarify the issu...

Brendan Loy compares Mayor Bloomberg to Mayor Nagin

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He doesn't like Bloomberg's choice to delay a decision on evacuation of New Yorkers living in "Zone A" low-lying areas: ...
2011-08-24

It's time for Maryland to start fixing the hugely damaging gerrymandering problem

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The WaPo makes some good points on gerrymandering in their recent editorial. 1. It leads to extremism in both parties: By planting more...
2011-08-23

The connection between culture, stories and politics

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Lawrence Meyers at Big Hollywood lays it out and suggests that the connection is so important that we should all be paying closer attention...

The job-killing NLRB

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Joe Nocera of the NY Times gives an update on the Boeing fiasco : In April, the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Bo...
2011-08-22

Megan McArdle is making lots of sense on AGW

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The title of her latest piece: "Climate science shouldn't be religion for left or right."
2011-08-21

"Baltimore a national leader in unfounded rape cases"

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Reports the Baltimore Sun. The Baltimore Police Department has for the past four years recorded the highest percentage of rape cases that...
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2011-08-13

Gov. O'Malley and his redistricting commission: arrogance with no accountability

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At the start of the redistricting hearing last night, State Senate President Thomas V. "Mike" Miller, House Speaker Michael Busch ...
2011-08-09

"Americans aren't tired. Only anchormen are tired."

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A resonant quip from the wonderful and fabulous Charles Hill . Listen to the whole thing:
2011-08-07

"Doorbell"

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Watch it to the end. Of all the Powerline contest videos , this is the one that went viral even though it didn't finish in the top tier...
2011-08-04

Testimony from tonights redistricting hearing

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I have four things to say about redistricting. 1. If you think about what's wrong with Congress -- arrogance, corruption, incivility, an...
2011-07-31

A catchy anthem for small government

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You're Gonna Pay by Wilson Getchell. I like the part where Harry Reid points a pistol at six sperm and says "Give me all your mon...
2011-07-29

When, where and how to testify at Maryland redistricting hearings

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These hearings cover both congressional districts and Maryland state legislative districts. Dates and locations for the twelve hearings: S...
2011-07-28

5 ways to deflect public anger and demonstrate accountability

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For any BCPS board member, admininstrator or task force member who is feeling under siege lately, here are some tips from a very perceptive ...
2011-07-26

"Goldfish" gets honorable mention. . .

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in PowerLine's $100,000 prize for best dramatization of the national debt :
2011-07-21

"Top 10 things consumers should know about air conditioning"

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If you're having A/C trouble during the current heat wave , ASHRAE has a good list that can help you figure things out: 1. How an air c...
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2011-07-19

Congressional redistricting is shaking things up in California

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The tremors are happening in Mickey Kaus's back yard and he likes the feeling : I thought one of the points of passing an anti-gerryman...
2011-07-14

More good advice ...

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... about blogging and writing, nicely compiled by Ricardo Bueno . via Glenn
2011-07-10

Typography and minimalist web design

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Good stuff from Kurt Edelbrock, via Glenn. I think I need to take some of his advice.
2011-07-07

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2011-07-06

Meta skepticism = skepticism about skepticism

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Here's a website all about getting skeptical about global warming skepticism . Cool! via Skeptoid via Muck & Mystery
2011-07-05

Steven Hayward: It's time to "serve the check"

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Hayward gives the conservative case for raising income taxes. Here's a longer quote : if you want to limit government spending, instead...

Gov. O'Malley finally announces congressional redistricting panel . . . on the 4th of July

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O'Malley's choice of a verrrrrry slow news day for the announcement speaks volumes. Voters should expect some serious gerrymander...
2011-07-03

Economist Michael Spence looks beyond his field of expertise and gets an insight on growth in the developing world

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Spence: When I started studying growth in the developing world, I thought the subject was mainly about economics. I no longer believe that. ...
2011-07-02

The great secular faith of our age: "education is the key to economic growth"

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Most politicians keep repeating it, so the idea must still resonate with lots of voters. But it's not true. via Tim Black, from his inte...
2011-07-01

Science is just a distraction from Al Gore's biggest climate failure, policy

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Walter Russell Mead on Al Gore's failure, part 2 : [The] entire green policy vision was so poorly conceived, so carelessly constructed...
2011-06-30

The failure of Al Gore and "why the global green movement has tanked"

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Part I from Walter Russell Mead objects of great value (Nobel prizes, Oscars) turn dull and leaden at [Al Gore's] touch. . . . [his re...