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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

November 5th, 2013 · Comments Off on Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. · Uncategorized

  Chase Isn’t the Only Bank in Trouble – mtaibbi   rollingstone Wage Stagnation and Market Outcomes – economix   nytimes RIP, American Dream? Why It’s So Hard for the Poor to Get Ahead Today – theatlantic Introducing ‘The Tuition is Too Damn High’ – 10parts   washingtonpost After the Meltdown – publicintegrity How Private […]

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Tell him I was too fucking busy– or vice versa.

September 17th, 2013 · Comments Off on Tell him I was too fucking busy– or vice versa. · Uncategorized

  CourtVision: The Year in Scoring – grantland How did Qatar get the World Cup? – reddit A’s roster a modern marvel – espn The Definitive Case of Whether the A’s or Giants Once Controlled San Jose – bizofbaseball Erroneous Story Claiming Houston Astros Most-Profitable Ever A Massive Strikeout – forbes The art of scoring […]

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the difference between doing something and doing nothing at all turns out to be a huge difference

August 28th, 2013 · Comments Off on the difference between doing something and doing nothing at all turns out to be a huge difference · Uncategorized

  The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis ‘You F–ked Up, You Trusted Us’: Talking Ratings Agencies Everything is Rigged, Vol. 9,713: This Time, It’s Currencies Chase, Once Considered ‘The Good Bank,’ Is About to Pay Another Massive Settlement Chase Made Errors in Nine Percent of Credit-Card Collection Lawsuits, Internal Survey Finds New Bank Investigations: […]

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occupying the bracingly tart if narrow interval separating the hopelessly bland from the unspeakably vile

August 21st, 2013 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

  Behavioral Economics for Kids [pdf] Brain, Interrupted – nytimes The Art of Comics No. 1: Interview R. Crumb– Bill Nye: Firebrand for Science, and Big Man on Campus – nytimes Top 10 Iconic Data Graphics – fastcolabs Salt Lake City, Utah – This is the place – dbyrne Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy […]

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At it’s core, it’s just creative lying

August 12th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

  The Bradley Manning Verdict and the Dangerous “Hacker Madness” Prosecution Strategy – eff What It Means to Be An NSA “Target”: New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform – eff How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say – slate In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of […]

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Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

June 7th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

  Why Are Homeowners Being Jailed for Demanding Wall Street Prosecutions? – rollingstone Unions to Banks: Pay Up – americanprospect CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law – bloomberg Too-Big-to-Fail Takes Another Body Blow – mtaibbi   rollingstone Deja Vu on the Hill: Wall Street Lobbyists Roll Back Finance Reform, Again – mtaibbi […]

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Baseball is all about the acronyms and the link to other acronyms

May 7th, 2013 · Comments Off on Baseball is all about the acronyms and the link to other acronyms · Uncategorized

  Organizational Architecture of College Sports Behind the Scandals Maintaining a Credible Threat – thesportseconomist Is Your Team’s Owner a Major League Asshole? – motherjones Segura’s baserunning adventures – mlb MLB uniforms 2013 – flipflopflyball Can money buy baseball glory? [interactive] – latimes Team-building with Billy Beane and Theo Epstein – providencejournal Why the Miami […]

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our treatment of our most vulnerable citizens is a measure of our dignity as a society

April 8th, 2013 · Comments Off on our treatment of our most vulnerable citizens is a measure of our dignity as a society · Uncategorized

  State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America – dstockman   nytimes Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws – mtaibbi   rollingstone Drug Offenses, Not Violent Crime, Filling Up Federal Prisons – ibtimes U.N. rights chief calls for closure of Guantanamo prison As It Spied on Occupy Wall Street, Department of […]

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The overwhelming, driving bias of the US media is subservience to power, whoever happens to be wielding it.

March 25th, 2013 · Comments Off on The overwhelming, driving bias of the US media is subservience to power, whoever happens to be wielding it. · Uncategorized

  9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact – upworthy The benefits of increased productivity over the last 35 years have not gone to the middle class [chart] – stateofworkingamerica Before Greed: Americans Didn’t Always Yearn for Riches – bostonreview An Embarrassment of Riches: Literature and the Ethics of Wealth […]

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bobbing there like a meat slinky dangling over a bottom step.

March 5th, 2013 · Comments Off on bobbing there like a meat slinky dangling over a bottom step. · Uncategorized

  Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail – mtaibbi   rollingstone How Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists – nytimes How Colombian drug traffickers used HSBC to launder money – reuters No Mortgage Lenders in Jail, but a Borrower Lands There – nytimes Former Icelandic bank executives jailed for fraud – independent Why It’s Smart […]

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