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Journalists who put their lives on the line 
Brendan Nyhan via Brendan Nyhan on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
I was honored to be interviewed yesterday by a journalist in Iraq who was writing a story about provincial elections in Iraq and the role of the media in political campaigns. He called me because of my work as a press critic, but it's hard to be critical of the media when you're talking to someone who is literally risking his life for the job. Pretty awe-inspiring stuff.
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Impressing the governors
Steve Benen via Political Animal on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
IMPRESSING THE GOVERNORS.... What's that old Woody Allen line? "Ninety percent of life is just showing up"? Reading about Barack Obama's appearance at the annual meeting of the National Governor's Association, it seems he scored points for just showing up, but he did even more by knowing what he was talking about.
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BEER!
(unknown author) via Ezra Klein on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
I don't have a lot to say about it, but the New Yorker's exploration of "extreme" beer brewing is really excellent. Print it out, get yourself a six pack of Dogfish Ale, and read it slowly.
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Does globalization erode social safety nets?
Dani Rodrik via Dani Rodrik's weblog on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Economic theory and intuition suggest that as economies become more globalized, the ability of governments to undertake redistributive policies and to engage in social spending erodes. After all, a large part of the tax base--corporations, financial intermediaries, and skilled workers in particular--become internationally mobile and can evade taxes needed to finance those public expenditures.
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NYT Takes on the White Russian
Matt Zeitlin via Matt Zeitlin: Impetuous Young on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Just like any self respecting college male (and ex policy debater) I’m a huge Big Lebowski fan. I quote the movie without realizing that my words are actually the Cohen brothers’. Whenever a dispute comes up over suspected cheating or malfeasance in a compeition, I’ll angrily declare that “this is not ‘nam, this is bowling, there are rules.” Half the people around
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Adventures in Anonymous Sourcing
Felix Salmon via Portfolio.com: Market Movers on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Ryan Chittum picks up on a dog not barking in today's WSJ story about Goldman earnings:
The paper reported that Goldman Sachs's loss this quarter would be much worse than expected, news it attributed to "industry insi
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It's the debates, tonight, and he has to look perfect. He is
Freddie via L'Hôte on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
It's the debates, tonight, and he has to look perfect. He is wearing the suit, and didn't it take him a long time to scratch up the money for it. (He wasn't that kind of conservative, like many of the rest, no old money for him.) Grey flannel, Brooks Brothers (of course), the cut a vintage from the 1950s, and he'd have taken earlier, if they would have made it. It looks just like t
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Wall*E and the Animated Ghetto
Dayle McClintock via tor.com on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Thanks to the Academy ghettoizing animated films, one of the best pictures of this (or any other) year probably won’t be recognized with an annoying montage introduced by a teleprompter-dependent celebrity come February. Instead, I expect that Wall*E will get its fifteen seconds of Oscar s
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Finance Salaries: A Reply
Felix Salmon via Portfolio.com: Market Movers on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Free Exchange responds to my declaration that finance-sector salaries should be slashed:
The problem, however, is with self-selection. The most talented people in finance
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A timeline of food
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
The Food Timeline shows which foods were invented when. Ok, not invented, exactly, but first eaten. A tasting menu:
Pretzels, 5th century AD.
Pork and beans, 1475.
Foie gras, 1st century AD.
Croissants, 1686.
Chop suey, 1896.
Popcorn, 3600 BC.
Swedish meatballs, 1754.
(via s
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Blaming Terrorism on Technology and Openness: The Case of Mumbai and Crowd Soruced Security
Sean Gorman via Off the Map - Official Blog of on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
The attacks in Mumbai were both devastating and tragic. As with any traumatic event people search for something to blame and for this event the case is being built that technology and openness of data enabled the terrorists in their endeavors. The guilty technology pa
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The Shootout in Mumbai
(unknown author) via Kevin Drum - Mother Jones on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
THE SHOOTOUT IN MUMBAI....After a photographer at the Mumbai Mirror expressed his dismay that police on the scene didn't immediately open a gun battle against the terrorists behind last week's attacks, it became a trope in the right blogosphere that many lives could have been saved if only the Mumbai police had been more ballsy. "This whole unwillingness to shoot busi
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MISTAKES WERE MADE.
(unknown author) via Ezra Klein on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
I've spent part of the day reading about super senior tranches and synthetic bonds and all the rest, and on some level, I think we're making this too complicated. The other day, Robe
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THEY WRITE LETTERS.
(unknown author) via Ezra Klein on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
You should read Michael Berube's letter to Peter Singer.
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Capitating
myglesias via Matthew Yglesias on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Here’s a graph from The New York Times showing what happened to different treatments for high-blood pressure as new evidence came out about the efficacy of different courses of treatment:
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Offering Arbitration
Paul DePodesta via It Might Be Dangerous... You G on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
This story has been heavily reported in the past few days, more so than I can ever remember, but last night was the deadline for offering arbitration to your own free agents. The result was a total of 24 offers across the industry.Once upon a time, actually up until just a few years ago, if a Club failed to offer arbitration to one of their free agents then they could basically no longer
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Theatrical Rage, Human Machine
James Poulos via The Confabulum on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
From the theaters to malls, on every shore,
the thin line between entertainment and war
The front line is everywhere, there be no shelter here […]
Just stare and live the nightmare
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THE QUESTION OF COUNTERINSURGENCY.
(unknown author) via Ezra Klein on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Spencer Ackerman has an interesting post asking whether counterinsurgency doctrine is intrinsically imperialist. He concludes that it's not, but that it may nevertheless be of great use to imperialists. It's worth reading as a primer on an important debate. And for a broader look at the inf
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