Monthly Archives: April 2004

Costco’s Bookshelf

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While at Costco this morning I noted down the names of the politically oriented volumes on the book table. Here is the list starting from the high visibility end:

Hannity…..Deliver Us From Evil
Clark………Against All Enemies
Hughes……Ten Minutes From Normal
Leamer……Sons of Camelot
Stossel…….Give Me A Break
Franken……Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Lewis… …..Buying of the President 2004
Goldberg….Bias
Charon……Useful Idiots
Hannity…..Let Freedom Ring

I don’t know as there is much to make of this beyond this is what they are selling and the prices are good. Perhaps I’ll do this again in a month or so and with more data we might have more fun.

bush Policys Create Job Growth

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Washington DC has averaged 0.8% job growth per year while w has been in office. Which might show that deficits have been good for the bureaucracy.
Ok, sure this is not fair. Even in DC bush has not done as well as reagan and clinton who scored 4.1% and 2.4% annual job growth in DC. And it paints a distorted picture as it turns out that so far 63 of the top 100 labor markets have shown job loss during bush’s first 3 years or, full the half full crowd, 37 of the top 100 have shown job growth.
Read a more thorough comparison at American City Business Journals.
Via Suburban Guerilla.

Watching for Sign

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Hmmm…perhaps the DA will be watching Tyco jurer #4 for signs of ill earned income. The Talking Dog suggests that there might be reason:

Dennis Koslowski and Mark Swartz of the Tyco Corporation, who bought themselves a mistrial today after 11 unfruitful days of jury deliberations. And when I say bought a mistrial, let me just say I mean EXACTLY that– “J’Accuse”, and leave it at that.=; Juror No. 4, a 60-something retired schoolteacher who went to law school in her 50’s, flashed the “OK” sign to the defense table, to signify that the brown paper bag arrived where it was supposed to (this is all on information and belief, and IMHO; I have no idea HOW Koslowski and company managed to get the juror to side with them– maybe they even did it with their case;…

Thieves of all kinds need to spend their time in jail and pay back their victims. Too bad these guys probably won’t live long enough to make restitution…it’d take more then a few life times to earn the $600,000,000 legitimately.

Where We’ve Been

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Lists detailing what it was like somewhere in 19xx or 18xx show up from time to time in varying formats. We might be well served if we clipped and posted one next to our monitors as a reminder of how much things can change and how little someone looking back on 2004 from the future may understand us.
Tyler Cowen provides some excerpts from one version and Michael at 2blowhards provides a variant extracted from an audio Economics course he has listening to.
Read both lists here:

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Friday Spiders

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For those of you who miss Kevin Drum’s cats there is some fine spider blogging today.
First, PZ Myers introduces us to his first spring visitor.
Second, Mrs Tilton presents a couple of fine arachnids in detail. Mrs Tilton is a regular Friday spider blogger who will be on vacation for a couple weeks.
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Update: In this exclusive interview with SK Bubba Kevin, now blogging at The Washington Monthly, reveals why cat blogging ended:

SKB: Have you consciously changed your blogging style? For example, do you tend towards more “serious” topics?
KD: No. ….They just asked me to keep doing what I’ve been doing all along.
The only change is that I don’t do purely personal posting anymore. Catblogging is the main fatality.