I’ve been thinking a lot lately about life. I am not saying this to sound deep. I am many things, but I am not deep. I say many things, and few of them are deep. I have many thoughts, and most are shallower than a puddle of Kool-Aid in a desert.
I think about life because it is the name of the magazine section that I will be editing for …
Takeuchi Cullen writes that she didn’t go because “besides childcare and wardrobe issues, I had a doctor’s appointment I couldn’t move.”
Poniewozik just told me he didn’t go because he doesn’t own a tux.
And I didn’t go because I was tired, Mrs. CC was about to leave town for a few days, we were gonna have tacos for dinner, and–either …
Nancy Folbre, an economics professor at UMass Amherst, e-mails with a couple good criticisms of my “Don’t Ditch the GDP” column:
First, no economist that I know of, either on or off the Sarkozy Commission, has advocated ditching GDP. What’s under discussion is the possibility of developing good supplements to it.
Second, the viability
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For five years now, my employer has thrown an all-star, red-carpet, glitterati-packed extravaganza to honor the people it selects for its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Last year, I attended for the first time, and posted these pics. There were stars! Up close! Tina Fey, Matt Lauer, the guy who dived onto …
I’m a little late to this (it came out on Tuesday), but I just read Newt Gingrich’s “Plea to Republicans: It’s Time for Real Change to Avoid Real Disaster.” It starts with a cogent analysis of just how bad things look for Republicans in this fall’s Congressional elections. “The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if …
A certain Flip has declared that my post from last week about the Congressional Budget Office and capital gains taxes contained the “Worst Argument of the Day.” I’m totally honored, except that I didn’t actually make the argument for which he condemns me, which was that the decline in tax revenue from 2000 to 2004 was proof that capital …
The new Four Seasons Mumbai has just opened its doors. And as the FT reports, (via the Indian Economy Blog), it wasn’t easy getting to this point:
Property analysts estimate there is a shortage of 100,000 hotel rooms in India – more than the existing supply. Archaic restrictions that have prohibited the construction of high-rise
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When one is commuting to work while hugely pregnant, one thinks about these things. Especially because it happened just yesterday (no, not to me, you ninny: you think I’d blog about something as cool as that without photographic evidence?):
A Massachusetts woman traveling to Oklahoma City with her three young children has given birth to
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Bill Carter at the New York Times reports that NBC is launching a 24-hour local news channel in New York, which will subsume the network’s current local news operation. Local news audiences are “eroding and aging” (the words of John Wallace, NBC’s newly christened president of local media) and the way broadcasts currently work is “just …
In March 1980, Lester Brown wrote a paper for his Worldwatch Institute titled “Food or Fuel: New Competition for the World’s Cropland.” Let’s just say it turned out to be a bit premature. “I was so far ahead of the curve no one even knows that exists,” Brown says. (It is still on sale for $9.95, though.)
Now, of course, food vs. fuel is …
In the Cullen household, Mother’s Day is known as Sunday. As in the day Mommy does the laundry, the food-shopping and cooks a big batch of something we eat until we’re sick of and throw out the following Sunday. As in the day Daddy plays a matinee and sometimes a concert. Oh, I bet I’ll get a funny card or two, and my sisters are …
