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Friday Night Fluff: Happy New Year

Uncategorized 26 December 2008 | 0 Comments

This is the last Friday Night Fluff piece of 2008. There’s a superstition that whatever you are doing at midnight on New Year’s Eve (other than drinking) is going to be a predominant theme in the new year. For example, if you’re at a party with friends, you’ll be spending a lot of time with [...]

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Will Facts Matter Again?

Bush Admin, Obama Admin, Politics 26 December 2008 | 0 Comments

Okay, day after Christmas, back at it. Paul Krugman graced us with this in yesterday’s New York Times:
…President-elect Barack Obama, riding a wave of revulsion over what conservatism has wrought, has said that he wants to “make government cool again.”
Before Mr. Obama can make government cool, however, he has to make it good.
True enough, as [...]

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