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Wierdest verbal image of the day...

Comes from the increasingly self-paroding Carly Fiorina. Defending the self-admitted economic illiterate, John McCain, as the better steward of American wealth and well being than his opponent, she to… more →

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Wierdest verbal image of the day... — 2 comments

Tom wrote 1 month ago: Comes from the increasingly self-paroding Carly Fiorina. Defending the self-admitted economic illite … more →

Tags: bad ideas, McCain, political follies, Politics, words mattter, Fiorina, Martin Feldman

If you thought popular writing about science has problems...

Tom wrote 1 month ago: Try economics — and you could do worse for a wince and chuckle than read this helpfully edited … more →

Tags: bad ideas, schadenfreude, science writing, Journalism, Economics, Propaganda

Why it helps to run the numbers... — 2 comments

Tom wrote 1 month ago: and why it matters. Brad DeLong reproduces a  memo from Obama campaign econ. policy director Jason … more →

Tags: Who needs science?, Politics, numbers, obama, Science Policy, McCain, taxes, John McCain, Barack Obama

Eric Roston Wins!: Judge Someone by Their Enemies, Dept. — 1 comment

Tom wrote 1 month ago: Eric Roston, author of the new and invaluable The Carbon Age, has done well, very well, in a two ste … more →

Tags: Cars, Climate, Climate follies, Energy follies, McCain, obama, Policy, political follies, Politics

Program Notes: Iraq disaster/NY Times does good edition...

Tom wrote 1 month ago: Read this on the fate of wounded Iraqi soldiers. (h/t TPM) Weep, then think. Two issues related to … more →

Tags: Arithmetic, Bush follies, Journalism, McCain, Policy, Politics, War, Casualties, Economics

News Flash -- Dog Bites Man dept: John McCain does not care about global warming

Tom wrote 2 months ago: This just in:  John McCain, who claims that “he has been a leader on the issue of global warm … more →

Tags: Who thought that was a good idea?, Climate follies, bad ideas, Politics, McCain, Republican follies, Policy, Environment, Carbon

How not to pay for science...Mass Legislature edition

Tom wrote 3 months ago: From The Boston Globe today: The governor’s initial proposal sought to empower a panel of indu … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Democratic knavery, political follies, Politics, Who needs science?, Who thought that was a good idea?, corruption, Funding, Massachusetts

The Science Primary is... — 8 comments

Tom wrote 3 months ago: ….now over. The blogosphere has been all over Hilary Clinton’s bizarre, preposterous, an … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Climate, Climate follies, Clinton, Energy follies, McCain, obama, Politics, Science Policy

Does Climate Change Matter: Steven Postrel Edition — 3 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: Last week I blogged at length (too much! sayeth the mythical average reader) about McCain’s ga … more →

Tags: Climate, Climate follies, Politics, Science Policy, Weather, climate change, eco-conflict, Ecology, Global Warming

Really Stupid Ideas: Hillary update.

Tom wrote 4 months ago: Matthew Yglesias has a more subtle take on Hillary’s “me too” on McCain’s ga … more →

Tags: Who thought that was a good idea?, Climate follies, bad ideas, political follies, Politics, obama, Energy follies, McCain, Clinton

More on Really Stupid Ideas

Tom wrote 4 months ago: Just to provide yet more real-world evidence of the vapid stupidity of McCain’s gas tax, now e … more →

Tags: Climate follies, bad science, bad ideas, political follies, Politics, obama, Energy follies, McCain, Clinton

Really Stupid Ideas, take two: Hillary Clinton edition. — 2 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: In this post, I tried to lay out why John McCain’s idea (sic) for a gas tax “holiday … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Climate follies, Clinton, McCain, obama, Picking sides, Politics, Seriously, stupidity

Really Stupid Ideas: John McCain - Environment - Global Warming edition — 7 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: I begin to think that John McCain and George Bush made major — and really scary — speech … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Climate follies, Clinton, Journalism and its discontents, McCain, media, obama, Policy, political follies

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging (Monday edition): Isaac solves the subprime mess. — 1 comment

Tom wrote 5 months ago: We are in a mess. How bad is it? I don’t know — but when the Fed et al. race to make su … more →

Tags: Who thought that was a good idea?, Newtoniana, History, Isaac Newton, quis custodiet ipsos custodes, Scientific Revolution, History of Science, newton, mortgage crisis

Don't Play Poker With... — 2 comments

Tom wrote 5 months ago: JP Morgan. This not so much science as natural history. Observe the behavior of the fauna in the wi … more →

Tags: schadenfreude, Darwin, Nature red in tooth and claw, Arithmetic, Money, stupidity, Wall Street, mortgage crisis, cupidity

Why Can't Republicans (and Harvard Economists) Count? Housing edition — 2 comments

Tom wrote 5 months ago: I’ve focused a lot on the importance in thinking in numbers in a variety of blog posts.  (Thi … more →

Tags: bad ideas, stupidity, Arithmetic, Republican follies, Policy, scientific thinking, Economists, Economics, housing


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