Monthly Archives: February 2011

Some Clarification on Wisconsin’s Budget

Over at The Washington Post, Nick Johnson by way of Ezra Klein clarifies Wisconsin’s budget crisis.
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Links 2/21/11

Kinda cold here. Let’s warm up with some links.
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20+ Years of Wage Data: America Needs a Raise

Two-thirds of U.S. workers haven’t seen any economic gains in thirty years.
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Posted in Economics, Jobs | 34 Comments

A Legal and Scientific Issue with HIV ‘Fingerprinting’?

The consensus sequence is the real problem.
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Posted in Genetics, HIV, Public Health, The Rule of Law | 6 Comments

Links 2/20/11

It’s a sunny Sunday here. Kinda cold though. Links for you.
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Sidewalk Rage Isn’t a ‘Mental Illness’

It’s called living in Boston.
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Posted in Boston, Transportation, WhatEVAH! | 8 Comments

Democracy Doesn’t Happen One Day Every Two Years: Thoughts on Wisconsin

If democracy is exercised only one day every two years, then it is not truly democracy. Choosing princes to lord over us is not democracy.
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Posted in Democrats, Fucking Royals, Unions, Voting | 1 Comment

Links 2/19/11

This edition goes out to the badass parrots. Links for you.
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Faster Trains Versus SUPERTRAINS

Forget SUPERTRAINS. How about trains that go 90 mph?
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Saturday Sermon: Waldmann on the Limits of Deduction

One can be really clever and derive how the world could or should work. This might or might not have anything to do with how the world actually works.
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Posted in Economics, Philosophy Shit | 3 Comments