Category Archives: Mature Discourse

This seems like a BFD to me.

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

QE3. This isn’t my dream of super-clear forward guidance, but it’s a huge step in the direction of Krugman/Woodford style precommitment. The key thing is that they’re no longer saying that accommodative monetary policy is conditional on the recovery being weak. Instead, … Continue reading →

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HBO’s “Girls” and the Persistent Question of Modern-Day Segregation

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

Since it debuted last month, HBO’s new series Girls has been the subject of intense jibber-jabbering and hand-wringing.  Though the series has been been widely praised among professional TV critics – its Metacritic score of 87 indicates “Universal acclaim” – it … Continue reading →

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GOP Translator

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

A friend of mine shared this with me.

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BigGovernment.com Founder Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

I think I only have two things to say about this: (1) 43 is much, much too young for someone to die in this day and age.  I feel terribly sorry for Breitbart’s family and friends. (2) A lot of … Continue reading →

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Did the stimulus work?

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

The Center for American Progress made this short video about whether the stimulus worked, and I thought it was worth sharing. This isn’t new information for those of us in the fact-based community who have been following the politics, the … Continue reading →

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Irony died today…

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Orange County, CA. — Irony died today as a man used his computer powered by a government-regulated power grid and connected to the internet, based on technology developed by taxpayer-funded and government-controlled Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to tell … Continue reading →

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Dan Balz is an idiot

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

So the alarm goes off at 6:45 (Pacific Civilized Standard Time) and because I hate my brain, I flip on The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd on MSNBC.  He has his panel of three pundits who are all there to … Continue reading →

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20 Things I Learned in Atlantic City

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

To everyone out there who’s been jonesing for some new inuyesta posts, I apologize for my absence this weekend. I promise there was a good reason for my absence though. You see, this weekend I made my first-ever trip to … Continue reading →

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Reason 4,991 to watch Up with Chris Hayes

Posted on February 11, 2012 by

As the other authors of this blog already know, I’m pretty much obsessed with getting them to regularly watch Chris Hayes’ ridiculously scheduled TV show on weekend mornings.  My efforts haven’t been entirely wasted, as inuyesta watched last weekend and … Continue reading →

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Weekly Wonkette Wrapup

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

Greetings faithful reader(s)! Welcome to the second edition (first edition here) of the post we do every Friday where we blatantly steal  from one of our favorite websites, Wonkette.  One of the best things about Wonkette is the hilariously mean-spirited nicknames … Continue reading →

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