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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Suck of the Titans

“Overall, the movie suggested that the eighth grade AV club had somehow gotten its hands on a CGI studio,” says Megan McArdle, who calls the remake of Clash of the Titans “one of the worst movies I’ve seen in years.” Assuming she also saw Avatar, that means we could be talking about a historic breakthrough in 3-D suckage. I just […]

Bad to Worse for Sorry Charlie Crist

Even a liberal Republican like Rudy Giuliani endorses Marco Rubio: On a conference call today with bloggers, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani discussed his endorsement of Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate, saying his endorsement goes beyond “whether Charlie Crist broke his word with me on several occasions — he did — that’s the reality, […]

Who Is Ken Buck?

He’s the district attorney of Weld County, Colo., and a Republican Senate candidate who won last month’s precinct caucuses: In the aftermath of his narrow win in the recent Republican caucuses, U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck told south metro business leaders that his grassroots campaign can take the credit. “It doesn’t look like a landslide on its […]

More Economic Reality

President Obama’s biggest obstacle? Arithmetic: The increase in jobs highlighted in the nation’s most recent unemployment report carried the sound of economic promise, but Obama administration officials said Sunday that the public shouldn’t expect any dramatic improvement in the jobless rate, largely because of the effect of thousands of “discouraged” unemployed people who have resumed […]

Alex Giannoulias and the Chicago Way

Guy Benson at National Review: Alexi Giannoulias is a young, exceedingly ambitious politician with extensive ties to the very worst elements of the sordid Illinois Democratic machine. (With impeached/indicted former Governor Rod Blagojevich and convicted felon Tony Rezko in the mix, the TV commercials practically write themselves) . . . The Chicago Tribune: The family […]

As If the Media Needed Another Reason to Hate Sarah Palin

She’s now getting rich in their line of work: [S]he has tunneled her own route into the public consciousness and gone into the Sarah Palin Across America business. And what a business it is. She was paid a $1.25 million retainer by HarperCollins. Her book, “Going Rogue,” has sold 2.2 million copies, according to its […]

Celebrity Meltdown Update

Because of incessant political crises since Jan. 20, 2009, we haven’t been keeping up with the paparazzi-plagued faces of fame as much as we’d like, so let’s see if we can fill the gap: A moving van was seen hauling furniture and boxes out of the home once shared by Sandra Bullock and Jesse James. There has […]

Are Big Banks ‘Too Big to Fail,’ Or Are They Just Too Complex to Regulate?

Taking as an example the 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Steve Randy Waldman at Interfluidity examines the difficulty of measuring the solvency of major financial institutions that deal in complex instruments. It’s that “Knowledge Problem” that Professor Reynolds warned about.

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