Call It A Comeback
Ummmmm…in college there was a “scandal” in Iowa about 130 voters who were somehow funky in their registration. It turned out to be….nothing. Well this is a bit more. Two bad apps. Massive. See Talking Points Memo for more and look for Kit Bond at a corner bar near you!
Videoshot of ball going out and then camera cuts to Senator Arlen Spector. Keith Olbermann: And that is a single bullet to right, and there is Senator Arlen Spector with a theory.
Or something like that–I laughed so hard I cried. The same happened when I read this the other day. Perhaps the investigation will end in being “Not Proven.”
I can’t believe they picked Smith and Kahneman are excellent choices. Kahneman and Tversky and Smith have opened a whole new line of inquiry that really allows us to test how people behave. Econ has always assumed that peopel are rational. In many cases though, we saw evidence to the contrary. Experimental economics is giving us the ability to investigate how people make decisions under different conditions and explode rationality into a useful concept beyond its theoretical parsimony. And go to Dynamist.com for some articles on Smith and his work.
Molly does Texas well. She has a great column on insurance rates and this little nugget is especially interesting:
“There’s been a lot of screaming about how the cost of med-mal is driving doctors into retirement, but Public Citizen did a 21-state study showing that insurance premiums are rising at the same rate across the board — homeowners, car and health.”
Insurance is a strange product because when you buy it, you aren’t just buying insurance, you are buying a policy into the company’s health. The problem is when they have bad investments, your rates go up. In a strict sense this would be fair. However, people don’t really consider themselves stakeholders and I’m pretty damn sure nothing I can do will affect Ed Rust’s decisions. Given this relationship, insurance companies have no business whining about trial lawyers.
Of notable races they endorse Rauschenberger and Meeks. Meeks goes pretty much without saying. Rauschenberger is a bit conservative socially for me, but he is a first rate legislator and single best expert on the budget. He will never be the R’s leader though–he can shoot straight.
Daniel Gross does a great critique of the Bush economic team. However, he misses the mark on the Bush foreign policy and security team.
First, continued rumors of Tapped’s extinction. This would be horrible. BTW, they haven’t posted yet today. If they do get rid of it, I cancel my dead tree edition.
and this quote:
“Dick Morris vs. Hillary Clinton is sort of the truth-seekers version of the Iran-Iraq war”
For goodness sakes, could someone tell me why this was even a news story?
With always acknowledgements to Steve Rosenbloom.
Simon vs Davis. Bill Simon is so incompetent he was able to find Gray Davis acting ethically.
Via Cooped Up
Myles Brand is taking over as Prez of the NCAA. First, good for the NCAA to choose an academic. While he isn’t going to change the NCAA too much it is about time to put the college back into college sports.
Second, there was just a heart attack at Texas Tech. Call the EMTs. Or don’t.
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