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It’s hard to describe how awesome it is to see that my former high school district is manipulating No Child Left Behind in such innovative ways. I’m almost proud. Basically, NCLB school evaluation in Califnornia is based on the percent of 10th graders who pass the HS Exit Exam. It doesn’t matter if the student passes [...] I really wished Jeff Frankel blogged more since economists have established an (undeserved) reputation in the media as John Hodgman-style general experts, but the prominent ones who aren’t named Krugman skew decidedly right and reinforce the laissez faire conventional wisdom. That said, Frankel came through today with a post on the head of Britain’s financial regulatory agency coming out for transaction taxes [...] a softer world 470 by e horne and j comeau I’m in a ’social justice book club’ because I’m some sort of nerdy hippie and we’re reading Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill, a book I found very persuasive in my younger, harder years. Predictably, I’m less impressed by the book upon re-reading. I’m not [...] Well Put Clive: The current [homeowner mortgage] deduction costs nearly $80 billion a year in forgone federal revenues. It is available only to the minority of households—typically affluent— that itemize their taxes. Households at the margin of choosing between renting and owning are not, for the most part, itemizers. The deduction has no effect on their [...] Superhero webmaster Ethical Werewolf releases Captain Ineffective poking fun at the health care process generally and Max Baucus specifically. I’m all for that, but hope future comics will do more to feature android-Orszag fighting evil with…graphs? Charts? Really sharp graphs? So basically Obama decided to nationalize an up and coming Creationist theme park company just because a good Christian man was trying to steer clear of evil loan sharks taxes. Neil thinks that’s going to be a problem, but I have to ask: don’t Creationists deserve a public option too? Sadly, today my hopes that public transit would be a panacea for anti-social behavior were, once again, dashed. PT: not a sufficient condition for people to develop enough affinity for their fellow man to avoid being mean to beggers. Today, as I left the metro a woman was asking for money for food. [...] More evidence of the delusional nature of Clinton supporters: …and the youtube primary continues to go to Obama in a landslide. swfobject.embedSWF(”http://www.youtube.com/v/gAqVkYWq1wc&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-436-youtube-1″, “525″, “425″, “9″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); When he runs through the numbers and facts, rather than make proclamations based on his gut, Chris Bowers is the best election analyst on the web. So, when he makes a convincing case, I feel comfortable believing him. Therefore: barring an act of god, the underdog doesn’t just beat the spread, but wins outright. The great [...] Apparently all the cool kids are running for President (Despite being an academic, nonhuman, and British respectively — not exactly a group that screams electable, or even “legally electable”), but I’m going to take a different tack and declare for National Zoning Czar. True, it doesn’t have the same aura of “President” — or exist [...] So this is disappointing, but I have no doubt Lessig will resurface doing exciting things elsewhere, with his Change Congress movement just the beginning. I mistakenly stumbled into the bad side of the internet today when I clicked on Steve Sailer’s name in a comment thread. For those who have been blissfully ignorant of his recent musings hack job: Michelle Obama is stupid, a clear beneficiary of affirmative action, and hates white people. It’s real hardhitting journalism. This [...] My crack legal team is busy holding meetings and issuing memorandi to fight this cartoon, which violates the terms of use of the ‘Quixote’ handle. My namesake never tilted at abolishing the income tax! Moreover, I have it on good authority that the Don is backing someone else:
In my former life as a high school debater, I once faced a guy who kept accusing me of possessing “audacious audacity” to forward some argument (presumably meaning the words in the pejorative sense). I’ve long since forgot the matter in dispute — but not the ridiculous word choice! — and so it was hard [...] The title is really all I got in response to dude becoming much more popular among the ladies (and white people!), at Clinton’s expense. Unfortunately, this means that my prediction that Edwards will win the nomination is looking more and more unlikely. |
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