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Monday, October 11, 2010

Can Someone Please Translate This Sentence into English?

Words fail me as Lee Siegel, er, reasons:
The eventual assimilation of Beat hedonism ensured that by the end of the millennium, white middle-class Christians like him would themselves be marginalized — at least by the dominant culture — as the "silent majority."

Dear NYT: please sign me to Greg Mankiw's freelancer contract, since, if you pay me enough, I can probably learn how to write a sentence that idiotic. (The prolixity I already have down.)

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posted by Ken Houghton at 11:16 AM | 3 comments

Sunday, October 10, 2010

someone isn't "beeing" honest

BERJAYAabout where funding for a study on bee deaths came from.

a cheer must have gone up at bayer on thursday when a front-page new york times article, under the headline "scientists and soldiers solve a bee mystery," described how a newly released study pinpoints a different cause for the die-off: "a fungus tag-teaming with a virus." the study, written in collaboration with army scientists at the edgewood chemical biological center outside baltimore, analyzed the proteins of afflicted bees using a new army software system. the bayer pesticides, however, go unmentioned.

what the times article did not explore -- nor did the study disclose -- was the relationship between the study's lead author, montana bee researcher dr. jerry bromenshenk, and bayer crop science. in recent years bromenshenk has received a significant research grant from bayer to study bee pollination. indeed, before receiving the bayer funding, bromenshenk was lined up on the opposite side: he had signed on to serve as an expert witness for beekeepers who brought a class-action lawsuit against bayer in 2003. he then dropped out and received the grant. - fortune

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posted by Cookie Jill at 1:55 AM | 1 comments

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

i agree with paul krugman

fire alan's bony a**.

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posted by Cookie Jill at 9:48 PM | 0 comments

Sunday, April 11, 2010

environmental news story sunday

there really is one environmental story to highlight today. paul krugman's take on things "green" published today in the nytimes. "building a green economy"

but, as a. siegel points out over at the great orange one, there are some important things missing from his piece.

this truly excellent piece, however, has several serious weaknesses. there is, of course, the base problem that the 'costs' of climate change are -- even in his work -- seriously underestimated. but, krugman is an economist building on the work of other economists. In that community, he is not on the optimistic side in terms of climate change's impacts even if he is likely too optimistic against what the real impacts will be.

more importantly, the nobel-prize winning krugman fails to call out the economic community and economic analysis for incredibly stove-piped analysis of climate change issues and the potential positive value of climate change mitigation.

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posted by Cookie Jill at 7:39 AM | 0 comments

Friday, January 30, 2009

the next catastrophe looming...healthcare

or rather lack there of. lose job...lose healthcare. no money...no doctor access.
the whole world is in recession. but the united states is the only wealthy country in which the economic catastrophe will also be a health care catastrophe — in which millions of people will lose their health insurance along with their jobs, and therefore lose access to essential care. - paul krugman at nytimes
those bankers who gave themselves billions of dollars in bonuses can afford healthcare, but the rest of us can't.

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posted by Cookie Jill at 5:58 AM | 1 comments

Monday, October 20, 2008

add another feloneous hack

to the faux news lineup.
today, the washington post’s howard kurtz reveals that fox news has hired former new york times reporter judith miller, who will be an on-air analyst and write stories for fox’s website - think progress

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posted by Cookie Jill at 6:48 AM | 1 comments

Sunday, June 29, 2008

the lovely jane

from firedoglake talks with bob barr re: fisa "fun"

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posted by Cookie Jill at 3:12 PM | 0 comments