John Cole: "Napolitano may or may not have made a mistake, let’s fire her then find out."
Project Syndicate: "This crash in prices of risky financial assets would not overly concern the rest of us were it not for the havoc that it has wrought on the price system, which is sending a peculiar message to the real economy. The price system is saying: shut down risky production activities and don’t undertake any new activities that might be risky."
Science Daily: "They found that the normal cells lived longer, and many of the precancerous cells died, when given less glucose."
Bruce Schneier: "I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first glass and giving them free drinks."
The Not-Too-Distant Future of Air Travel: Drop That Sippy Cup!
Bob Geiger: "federal officials imposed new restrictions on travelers, including requiring them to remain in their seats"
NYTimes.com: "I just jumped over all the seats"
Jacob S. Hacker: "a bill must pass. Yet it must be a better bill that passes. And it must be understood by the President, the Congress and every American as only a step"
Paul Krugman: "As a result, a state hit by an adverse shock tends to return to the average national unemployment rate within about 6 years, even if it never regains the lost jobs."
Ezra Klein: "The people this bill will affect aren't facing divergent futures with public and private insurance. They're facing divergent futures with private insurance or no insurance."
Rajiv Sethi: "What I cannot understand is why people of considerable intelligence persist in conducting a partial equilibrium Walrasian analysis of the labor market, as if we were dealing with the market for oranges. Please stop it."
Is health care the stimulus redux?
Ezra Klein: "it all makes this look even more like the sort of program that will take root and be made better, as opposed to the sort of common opportunity people should feel comfortable rejecting"
NYTimes.com: "In the cradle of American innovation, workers are making career choices based on co-payments, pre-existing conditions and other minutiae of health insurance."
Howard Dean: "...this bill would do more harm than good to the future of America."
Paul Krugman, August, 2006: "The question now is how deep into the gutter Mr. Lieberman’s ego will drag him."
Ezra Klein: "I wonder whether reform is even possible to achieve in an atmosphere where statements about consequences are ruled out of order."
Ten years ago today, I posted this site's first blog post; or at least the first one that survived.
The Economist: "Using variations of the LineDrive approach, the researchers found that drivers needed less time to understand navigational instructions presented semantically (in words and numbers) rather than symbolically (as street signs and corporate logos)."
Coté: "Users no longer tolerate slow and dumb computers."
Financial Post: "Humans are the only rational animals but have yet to prove it."
St. Petersburg Times: "I am scheduled to begin dying on Feb. 1, 2010."
ZDNet.com: "Unfortunately, IDG publications aren’t alone in training their correspondents and writers that being first is more important than being right."
NYTimes.com: "When the Salahis put their collection of digital snaps of the state dinner on Facebook, they flouted all the unwritten rules of power-wall etiquette. (Including a new one that nobody had thought to mention: Don’t put your power wall on Facebook.)"
The Seminal: "Concerns about political mortality aside, there is an even better reason for Congress to begin confronting the president: a series of separate articles that highlight just how ignorant Congress has become on intelligence collection and surveillance."
firedoglake: "Maybe they will demand that this non-public option be run by a board of directors comprised of cats?"
Securosis: "When a retailer loses inventory to shrinkage, the losses are directly attributable to that part of the supply chain, and someone's responsible. But our computer security losses aren't so clear, and in fact are typically completely hidden from the asset owner."