Here’s a snap from my husband’s cell phone:
Sunday in the park with Benedict, live
April 20. I have a date today. To be totally honest, I’m not really looking forward to it. For one thing, I’m not sure about the guy. He seems like a nice-enough man, impressively intelligent and admirably energetic—considering his 81 years, anyway. But I already know we differ markedly on many issues that are of deep importance to …
We was robbed. Robbed!
Every year, my company doles out awards to itself. Time Inc., proud publisher of 125 magazines, recognizes its employees and titles in categories like best design, best reporting, et cetera. I suppose it would be like Disney giving itself awards for Best Animated Kiss, or General Electric for Best Turbine Adaptor. Come to think of it, …
Ellen discovers the Hula Chair
From my husband’s pal Janey Choi, who also sent us the link for this initial post. Happy weekend, all.
Why the next president should keep the capital gains tax rate right where it is
From an editorial in today’s WSJ:
The facts about capital gains rates and revenues are well known to our readers, but we’ll repeat them as a public service to the Obama campaign. As the nearby chart shows, when the tax rate has risen over the past half century, capital gains realizations have fallen and along with them tax revenue. The
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“Serious” economists and capital gains taxes
Commenter common sense writes, apropos of my intemperate anti-Charlie Gibson screed:
You don’t know of any SERIOUS economist who agrees that cutting capital gains increases revenue? Not one? I guess you use the word serious to mean ‘agrees with me and my friends’, and everyone else as ‘stupid’.
I did 5 minutes of internet research and
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My impression of management so far
As I’ve mentioned, I’m squatting temporarily in a management job vacated by a beloved and longtime editor at TIME. The job entails overseeing a section of the magazine called Life, which is the part of the magazine everyone under 40 skips to. (I’m kidding, boss. I totally read that whole cover story on clean energy.) The section …
So, uh, when did Charlie Gibson turn into a supply-side nut job?
I didn’t watch the debate last night. I’m afraid I just can’t bring myself to watch presidential debates. Which helps explain why I’ve never really made it as a political reporter.
But I can, after a suitable amount of time has passed, bring myself to read at least parts of the debate transcript. Such as Charlie Gibson’s questions to …
Outsourcing can go both ways (or, would you telecommute to Singapore?)
Thomas Crampton posts a fascinating e-mail from the deputy editor of Singapore’s Straits Times–sent out in the wake of the news of pending layoffs at the New York Times:
Would you know anyone within the NYT who could help us put out the word that we would be happy to take on some copy-editors, which we are in dire need of.
Ideally,
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Sunday in the park with Benedict
I’m attending the papal Mass this Sunday at Yankee Stadium.
This is an odd thing for me to do. For one thing, it means giving up a precious Sunday I could have spent laundering little-girl underpants and vacuuming dog hair.
For another, it’s five hours. On a hard stadium seat in the open air, which perhaps organizers thought would feel …
The not very encouraging (to newspapers, at least) success story that is Thomson
One of the two major newspaper companies I can think of that have successfully made the transformation to the digital age closes its biggest deal ever today. Thomson Reuters is the name of the new organization, but it was a straight-out acquisition of Reuters by Thomson, the former owner of the Globe and Mail, the Times of London, and my …
Because the only good grapefruit is a grapefruit that can’t be detected by radar
Curious Capitalist Jr. and I were just walking down Broadway when we saw these boxes stacked on the sidewalk outside a grocery store. We both found the name very strange. And you?