Archive for February, 2013

Mandarins and Their Bubble

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Megan McArdle has the quote of the day:
In fact, I think that to some extent, the current political wars are a culture war not between social liberals and social conservatives, but between the values of the mandarin system, and the values of those who compete in the very different culture of ordinary businesses–ones outside glamour industries like [...]

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Posted on February 22nd, 2013

Our Media is Failing Us…

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Because they do stories like this, this, and this.
Politico, New York magazine, and CNN should all be embarrassed, but I know they won’t be.
They don’t want to make things better. They only want to demonstrate how clever/funny/ironic/savvy they can be.
If they don’t want to respect me, then I won’t respect them.
And the fact that nearly [...]

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Posted on February 14th, 2013