February 2010
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Watchjongroat:
Noticed some buzz about The Pains of Being Pure at Heart in the Tumblrverse. Here’s a video a couple of my producers shot of them in their Brooklyn practice space last summer.
January 2010
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“In early January a friend mentioned that his New Year’s resolution was to...”
– Begley, “The Depressing News About Antidepressants”
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Anna Quindlen Has Met the Enemy, and it is Us
Photo: Khue Bui for Newsweek
AQ writes on how the biggest task in politics is just getting everyone to pay attention:
At the moment the problem in Washington is us, not them, or at least how they try to figure us out. Good luck with that. One poll of former Obama supporters who abandoned the Democrats in Massachusetts showed that 41 percent of those who opposed the health-care plan...
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“The larger lesson of the recent crisis is sobering. Modern, advanced democracies...”
– Samuelson, arguing that we need more, smaller economic downturns.
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Watch‘You want a toe? I can get you a toe.’
There are better, more serious videos from our Oscar roundtable, here, but we love this one.
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Watchandrewromano:
President Obama sparred with House Republicans today. Live. Without a teleprompter. For 90 straight minutes. Ambinder reports:
Accepting the invitation to speak at the House GOP retreat may turn out to be the smartest decision the White House has made in months. Debating a law professor is kind of foolish: the Republican House Caucus has managed to turn Obama’s weakness — his...
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To Be Fair, this Would Totally Work on Us Too →
via Meghan
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Our Vote: Either Way Kinda Sucks
Begley, on new research into why some people are more upset by emotional infidelity than sexual infidelity:
According to “attachment theory,” how you are raised leaves a lasting impression on how trusting you are in intimate relationships. (Some of the most interesting work on this is by Phillip Shaver of the University of California, Davis.) In a nutshell, people whose parents were...
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Newsweek: Decades in the Rye →
moleskineclub:
Jacket covers of the classic coming-of-age tale through the years
Little, Brown, 1951 (first edition)
Penguin, 2000
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“Salinger was the first writer I read about whom I made up my own mind about how...”
– Malcolm Jones, with a really nice Salinger piece
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WatchThis, about a guy who tries to find the last noiseless place in America, is pretty great.
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Yet Another Reason Poniewozik Should Write About...
Here’s the lede from his State of the Union piece:
So what did you think of the speech? No, not the State of the Union; other people are all over that. No, not the iPad launch; we’ve already covered that. I’m talking about the Republican response to the State of the Union, which new Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell delivered, in a twist, in front of a crowd of supporters in the...
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“I think probably, in each case of the areas we studied, it was crystallizing the...”
– From a Nieman Lab article on how government subsidies have always helped media
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“Several factors have combined to render the U.S. less of a presence. Technology...”
– Gross, on the scene at Davos
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Insanely Good
Summers on the iPad:
Fanboys understand that Apple is in the details. Apple is the way your music fades out when your iPhone gets a call; Apple is the combination scroll wheel and volume dial on the original iPod. Apple sells devices that, in Jobs’s famous formulation, “just work.” On stage in San Francisco, parts of the device that Jobs unveiled looked unpolished. Yes, the...
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“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said:...”
– Alan Kay (via azspot)
So the problem is that Jobs didn’t make the screen 5” x 8”?
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“None of this is to say Brown would win in 2012, or that a Brown bid is the best...”
– Romano, answering the question we’ve all been asking.
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This is Lyons' Greatest Moment
He’s been killing it all day on FSJ:
Let’s talk about this new device.
Yes, it will transform the media business, and by “transform” I mean it will put me in charge of it, the way the iPod put me in charge of the music industry. Yes, it will destroy cable TV and utterly transform the 60-year-old television industry, and again, by “transform,” I mean I’ll be in charge, because I’ll be the...
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Thousands of Cops Opened Fire at Jesse Oldshein...
Today in ledes we love: This, from the NY Daily News obit of the real-life model for the paper target used in police training.
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And We Looked Out, Liked Returned Crusoes, Upon...
Poniewozik continues to crack us up, and make us think. In these last few minutes before our world is completely changed, some notes:
Engadget says they have pictures! Which are…kind of meh.
Summers lists all the industries that will be rocked by Apple’s tablet.
Lyons is in hyper-Fake Steve Jobs mode, which is fantastic.
We’re experiencing…what’s that German...
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WatchState of the Union prep: Roubini gives his advice on the economy.
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Dear Internets: It's NewsDAY that has the failed... →
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Look, We're as Pessimistic as the Next Guy. But... →
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WatchObama: The First Year Trailer (from Slate)
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Things That at First Seem Funny but are on Closer...
Our Sarah Ball writes on the NYT:
TEEHEE, New York Times. ”Beaver” means vagina, sometimes, which is why you wrote this story—that, plus the fact that the “vulgar alternative meaning” of the word is causing philistine Canadian Web filters to block material containing “beaver” in schools. Poor Canadian National Historical Society, whose 90-year-old...
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The Sixty One →
mikehudack:
Absolutely beautiful music discovery engine. Hat tip to Rafi Mama.
Nwk loves, loves, loves this. Very cool
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The Man Who Predicts The Medals: Olympic Spoiler...
thetickr:
Economist Daniel Johnson makes remarkably accurate Olympic medal predictions. The professor doesn’t look at the athletes or the events but uses economic variables to come up with his picks.
His forecast model predicts a country’s Olympic performance using per-capita income (the economic output per person), the nation’s population, its political structure, its climate and the home-field...
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“Lost’s viewers fall into two categories, those who adhere to reason and...”
– Alston, getting us excited about 2/2/10
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If This is True, We Will Be Avoiding the Internets... →
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“Since Reagan, the consensus has been that you just had to make the pie grow, and...”
– Rana Foroohar on economists searching for a new theory of What Went Wrong
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“Obama is essentially a centrist. His world view cannot be easily consigned to...”
– Meacham
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“Second, no movement could possibly tame the great wild lions of love, lust, and...”
– “The Case Against Settling” [Newsweek] (via sarakatherine)
Julia Baird is really great in this
Norm Asymmetry
underpaidgenius:
- Richard Thaler, Will More Borrowers Walk Away From Their Mortgages?
A family that financed the entire purchase of a $600,000 home in 2006 could now find itself still owing most of that mortgage, even though the home is now worth only $300,000. The family could rent a similar home for much less than its monthly mortgage payment, saving thousands of dollars a year and hundreds...
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Game On
Alter, on the SCOTUS ruling that corporations are people too:
The Citizens United case is the Roe v. Wade of the 21st century, only the roles are reversed. Conservatives who bashed liberal judges for “legislating from the bench” and disrespecting precedent are now exposed as unprincipled poseurs. Liberals who grew up depending on courts to protect the public interest must now build a...
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In Which We Heart Jeff Bridges
We love this, an email Bridges just sent our Jon Groat to thank him for shooting something for him the other day:
Hey Jon, Thanks so much for shooting that screen test the other day. I’ve asked that they pay you. I hope they have. Please let me know if they haven’t. It was very nice of you to do it. All the best, Jeff