Ezra Klein

You’re probably wondering where I come down on the Amy vs. Matt cultural cage match. Admit it. You’re desperate to hear my penetrating insights on whether we should attack over-the-top culture (a la Amy) or leave it alone (a la Matt). Well, I’d like to offer some but it’d be redundant because Daniel Munz wrote […]

Via Atrios, the Ultimate Warrior — yes, the guy who choo-choo’d around wrestling rings while pumping his hands in the air and wearing bicep tassles — has actually retired into a more ridiculous old age. Go read his attempts to sue Something Awful, they’re hilarious.

So as you can see on the right, I’m starting up with BlogAds. Rates are pretty low, $25 a week or $80 a month, so, as an uninterested financial advisor, I highly suggest you place some. My hits, by the way, are about 3,400 visits from smart people desperate to click on your ad every […]

This man date thing strikes me as way overblown. Lee’s article basically says that casual acquaintances feel a little weird doing things traditionally reserved for dates. Well, yeah. I go to movies and museums and nice restaurants constantly with my friends without a hint of embarrassment, but I wouldn’t invite a guy I just met […]

EJ Dionne’s firing on all cylinders today with a blistering column on the Paris Hilton Benefit Act, otherwise known as the estate tax. You guys probably know Bush’s tax cuts eliminated it, but they just shoved it in an overstuffed closet and it’s slated to pop back out, strong as ever, in 2009. So tomorrow, […]

Brad Plumer’s thoughtful, Galbraith-inspired post on the Democrat’s lack of economic vision deserves a response and, indeed, a discussion. So I hope the blogosphere’s economist-kings (bet Plato never saw them coming) will pick up on it. Until they do, I will. To start, I think Brad’s got two things going on here. One is the […]

The subvert-the-dominant-link-hierarchy blogroll (also known as “Deserves More Attention”) got a new entry this morning — the immensely good Battle Panda. Not only is the site great, but I have a special affinity for blogs with panda in the name. Take a look.

Matthew Holt scores an interesting find. Turns out that HMO competition makes them less, not more, efficient. Apparently, if you gather a few HMO’s in a town, they’ll mainly compete over who can insure the most people who need insurance the least. In other words, it becomes a race to the healthy. Fascinating stuff.

So I was about to sign up for NetFlix tonight when I learn that it has not one, but two cheaper competitors running round town. Both WalMart and Blockbuster have their versions of the movies-to-mailbox service, and both undercut NetFlix on the cost issue. I’m still going for NetFlix based on pure lefty instinct (support […]

Ooooh…I love this idea. Get out your stamps and envelopes, folks.