Noted tax-policy expert Ari Fleischer had a long and deeply bizarro op-ed (subscribers only) in Monday’s W$J. And while I should probably just let the thing go, the piece made me so furious with its misrepresentations and nutso logical leaps that I decided I needed to work through my anger. And what better place to work through one’s …
I had lunch today at Google’s big New York beachhead down on the southern fringe of Chelsea. I’d tell you all about it, but I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get in. I didn’t read the thing all that closely–it was on a computer screen at the reception desk, and I was hungry. But I assume it means that I can’t write about …
So tomorrow, April 17, is Tax Day. For those still wondering about why it’s on April 17 this year, it’s because April 15 was on a Sunday and today happens to be a state holiday (or a district holiday, if you prefer) in the District Columbia as well as in Massachusetts, which is home to the IRS processing center where many of us in the …
Paul Wolfowitz is still president of the World Bank. According to the world’s leading source of Wolftroversy news, the FT, several European finance ministers want him out. But given the way power is exercised at the bank, that’s not enough:
A senior European official told the Financial Times that unless the White House withdrew its
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I generally try to keep overtly partisan sentiments out of this blog, but today I have two words for everybody: Marco! Scutaro!
When I saw him come up to the plate with two out and two on in the bottom of ninth, with the A’s two runs behind, I sort of figured something special was going to happen. Marco himself was less convinced:
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Once again, no column in the current Time. There are reasons … but I’ll try not to let it happen again.
In the meantime, check out Alex Perry’s tale of doing jail time in Zimbabwe. It’s pretty scary, until you get to the point where he gets out by paying a fine of “100 Zimbabwean dollars–at present values, half a U.S. cent.”
So Google is buying Doubleclick. From CNNMoney:
Search engine leader Google is buying privately held DoubleClick, a top digital marketing services firm, for $3.1 billion, the companies said Friday afternoon.
Google (Charts) is buying DoubleClick from private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, which bought DoubleClick in 2005 for $1.1
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So why is it appalling when the kid sees an ad for sugar-infused cereal on TV and asks us to buy some, but it’s totally okay to buy the sugar-infused ice cream that Stephen Colbert has been flogging on TV and feed it to said kid?
Because it’s all meant ironically, of course! (I can’t wait for the Colbert-logo Hummer.)
This Paul Wolfowitz World Bank scandal, while it’s lots of fun to rant about and has just reminded me of a great Los Lobos album that I used to own in vinyl, is starting to nag at me a little.
Thing is, Wolfowitz faced a really difficult choice when President Bush foisted him upon the World Bank. The love of his life, or at least the …
I can only feel deeply honored when I receive press releases like this one:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles, CACan a reincarnated dog bring hope and renewed life to an owner suffering from multiple tragedies? That’s what Lynda J. Austin, now a well-known writer on dog spirituality, discovered when her own dog Maxwell, a
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That phrase was in a comment to my previous Paul Wolfowitz post and I just loved it so much I had to repeat it. And heck, why stop with Wolfowitz? Let’s just fire everybody!
The thing I find surprising about this Wolfowitz scandal is that he never struck me as the crony type. He always came across (in what was written about him, mostly, …
It took a while, but Matt McAlister finally rose to the bait of my post on “The reign of the enthusiasts,” in which I razzed him as a “web2topian.” My point was that many of the most ballyhooed Web 2.0 applications, from Google’s search engine to digg and on down the list, deliver skewed and thus less-than-optimal results because they …
