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Don't Blink
Ezra KleinMar 05, 2005

Tonight I'm heading out to hear Malcolm Gladwell (yes, he of the hair) read from his new book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. The book tries to prove that your instant, gut reactions are actually more intelligent than your considered analyses. The problem, however, is that my instant, gut reaction is that the thesis is clever bullshit, which means that actually reading the book would be a wholehearted repudiation of its argument. We'll see if he can prove himself wrong and convince me to ignore my quicker instincts tonight.

--Ezra
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Lies for Truth
Ezra KleinMar 05, 2005
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Why do conservative bloggers lie?
Ezra KleinMar 05, 2005

That's not a rhetorical question, I really want to know. No, they don't all lie, and no, not all lefties tell the truth all the time, but we've really seen an epidemic of lies, and un- or half-truths on the right recently, and it's hard to fathom. Bet you didn't know Jimmy Carter was a traitor till Powerline told you. Bet you didn't know that David Corn supported Jeff Gannon till Instapundit cherry-picked sentences from Corn's column. Bet you didn't know that the left hates gays till
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Hello
Ezra KleinMar 05, 2005

Greetings fellow Kleiniacs. Ezra has once again exhibited his astonishingly poor judgment and turned over the keys to someone else this weekend. We have promised not to wreck the car or raid the liquor cabinet, but we'll see. You never know what those crazy bloggers will do.

OK, let's get the blog plugging out of the way. We are the two co-conspirators who sometimes ramble angrily on Here's What's Left.
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Weekend Stuff
Ezra KleinMar 05, 2005

As you can see from the quality piece below, Shakespeare's Sister is back minding the house. Keeping her company will be Michael and Heather from the excellent Here's What's Left. I'll be around this weekend as well, and will probably pop in with pieces of my own as the mood strikes. It's going to be a party.
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Terrorism 101
Ezra KleinMar 05, 2005

Remember Afghanistan? We had a war there once. Not too long ago, in fact. It was, as I recall, because the government was suspected of harboring this guy, who was responsible for the tragedy we call 9/11. Soon after toppling that evil regime and bringing democracy and freedom to the Afghanis, we all but left, because we had to move on to our next stop on the Freedom Express, Iraq. H
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Get Me The Smelling Salts
Ezra KleinMar 04, 2005

What? The blogosphere is not really self-correcting? Shock! Awe! Shame! And this from Time Magazine's blog of the year? My innocence knows no solace!
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Complacency Kills
Ezra KleinMar 04, 2005

As successfully as the Democrats seem to be repelling Bush's assault on Social Security, we still show no conception of how to turn our defensive entrenchment into a powerful counterattack. We cheer when one of our number tags privatization as an attack on Social Security's legitimacy, but what about on the legitimacy of government?
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Bad Democrat!
Ezra KleinMar 04, 2005

Regarding Biden and his potential vote for the atrocious bankruptcy bill, Jon Chait writes:

The trouble here is that the relationship each Democrat has with his home-state business interests is the relationship every Republican has with every business interest. The bankruptcy bill enjoys unanimous GOP support in the Senate. It's a familiar pattern: Noxious laws enjoy support from a coalition of all the Republicans plus a rotating handful of Democrats who have ties to interested parties. Almost all the Democrats are on the side of the angels on almost every issue. But it doesn't take many Democratic defectors to give the Republicans a majority.
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Bad Move
Ezra KleinMar 04, 2005
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