December 2011
20 posts
“Unfortunately, in late 2010 and early 2011, politicians and policy makers in...”
– Keynes Was Right - NYTimes.com
“Her guitar doesn’t upstage her voice so much as it becomes a slightly...”
– Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2011 | Features | Pitchfork
“We have the re-industrialization of America in this distribution nexus,”...”
– The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse
“Rich people, simply put, don’t get as much use out of their money as poor...”
– Moneybox
“The real death panels, he suggested, are people who would allow insurers to take...”
– Advice From Dr. Berwick, a Health Care Visionary - NYTimes.com
Annika’s Glogg - NYTimes.com →
“One find day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the devil...”
– Adam Ewing (David Mitchell)
“After a while, Mr. Dunlop let it be known that he was a musician. This did not...”
– An Aging Jazz Pianist Finds a New Audience - NYTimes.com
“The Iraq war was a kind of stress test applied to the American body politic. And...”
– The Broken Contract | Foreign Affairs
Ouch
But it’s hard to picture returning to a place where the local government, and, honestly, the culture too, is so stagnant that I can’t think of a job I would want if it came open or a single thing I can picture myself accomplishing.
100 Notable Books of 2011 - NYTimes.com →
“I mean, there are lots of millionaires on food stamps, right?”
– Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com 