Ezra Klein

Fortuna has a good post on the crucial issue of high school dynamics, particularly the cool friend/less cool friend relationship, that ends saying: Every time I see one of those movies I wonder if anyone who makes them thinks about what it’s like from the other side. If you have a friend who is cooler […]

This article, detailing the results of a simulation focusing on oil crises, is worth reading for an idea of why people are concerned about peak oil. My excellent guests from the Oil Drum gave you a nice rundown this week, but hearing it from Gene Sperling and former CIA directors James Woolsey and Robert Gates […]

Henry Farrell and Matt Yglesias have launched into a fascinating discussion on the relative merits of market taking and market making political approaches. Market taking is identifying a current and understood desire and exploiting it. When Microsoft jumped into the video game sector, it was a market taking move — they knew folks wanted video […]

It’s been nice to see Democrats respond to Rove’s remarks in much the same way Republicans responded to Durbin’s. That Rove unleashed a smear with treasonous implications certainly helps, but the bulk of the credit has to go to a party newly uninterested in being smacked around. This, however, was not all our idea. It […]

Thousand thanks to the wonderful guestbloggers who filled in this week. You can find them at their normal haunts, Scott Lemieux at the excellent Lawyers, Guns and Money, Prof Goose at The Oil Drum, Shakespeare’s Sister at her eponymous site, Matt Holt at The Health Care Blog, and the Jew at the Jewish Blog. Also, […]

Thanks Ezra for the opportunity to post here for a while along side such talented guest bloggers. Read my stuff at The Jewish Blog. Check out some of my past posts if you’re interested in understanding: The Solution to Oil Shocks Why the West had the industrial revolution instead of the East Why Ancient Piracy […]

Let me state this a bit more clearly: This whole Rove thing is a trap intended to paint Democrats as whiny hippies. If we respond by getting all pissed off and indignant, this will happen. Or we’ll let them invade another country just to prove we’re not hippies. First, there is a proposal to withdraw […]

So I said I’d be gone Monday to Friday. But I didn’t say what time Friday. So think of this as a practice post, not evidence of a blogging obsession that won’t allow me a full week’s vacation. I’m just stretching out, limbering up, preparing to jump off the bench and get back in the […]

So these guest-bloggers, pretty sweet, huh? They’ll be here through the end of the day, but I’m parachuting in for two posts here. The first is in response to popular demand (well, a few e-mails) asking me to link to the Get a Job pieces I do for Campus Progress. Ask and ye shall receive, […]

Thanks to Karl Rove I was thinking about hippy-dippy self-esteem psycho-babble last night. He’s pretty clearly trying to link us to the Effeminate Hippy Stereotype. And when I think of Effeminate Hippy Stereotypes, I think of Mr. VanDrisen from Beavis and Butthead. And this is the truth about that show: