Happy Hour Roundup
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* White House budget director Peter Orszag: Sending 40,000 troops to
Afghanistan could cost $40 billion. Appears to be the White House’s first
public forca...
The Internet is Good for People Who Listen to Music!
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One of the crazier things about contemporary life is that you see tons of
words spilled on the question of how much the internet is hurting the music
indus...
Credit
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All hailed wingnuttia for driving Dan Rather from the teevee. (I happen to
think it was a Rovian ratfuck, but that's just me.)
Greg Sargent wonders whether...
Reid Considering Progressive Tax for HCR
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One of the key differences between the House and Senate legislation has been
the financing mechanism, with the House passing a tax of 5.4% on individuals ...
A reader's response to the DCCC
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Joe and I haven't added the DCCC and the DSCC in our boycott, simply because
those two organizations didn't betray the gay community. That isn't to say
tha...
Gates Threatens to Fire Leakers
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates "is normally a mild-mannered man, at least in
public, but he unleashed a torrent on his plane on Thursday morning about
leak...
For the Soccer Fans Among You
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Much of my summer was spent on a consulting project that I did in
conjunction with ESPN, in which I helped them a design a soccer ratings
system known as t...