Does Brad Plumer's blog really need a plug? He's been around for years.
Try to be a leader, ogged, not a follower.
Well, suddenly I regret praying for the demise of TNR. Plumer is very good, usually providing a different insight on the hot topics. Int'l development a specialty. I have 27 posts saved.
Planet of Slums ...from February. Sentences key for me, from final paragraphs:
"Nor is it very likely that the billions ejected from the formal economy will ever organize themselves as a class, demanding justice."
"Davis thinks that, in the absence of a Left (if there even is one anymore) in Third World urban areas, the slum class will eventually turn in increasing numbers to populist Islam and Pentecostalism."
First women's gymnastics, now punditry. What will those damn kids get up to next?
What's the link between women's volleyball (basketball?) and barbarian cavalry?
Poe wrote on both of them? They both produce notes that are flat?
i liked his post about a "A College Grad in King Arthur's Court". i'd have a beer with a guy like that.
Plumer's very good, but reading him tends to make me unaccountably angry so I generally don't.
Wow, who knew an Unfoggalanche could bring down Blogger?
I've noticed that blogger blogs have been intermittently bloggered up in the last few days.
"I've been thinking it over, and can't in good conscience recommend seeing The Prestige, though I imagine a fair number of people will like it" is the sort of thing I'd be saying if I had a blog I posted at.
can't in good conscience recommend seeing The Prestige, though I imagine a fair number of people will like it
Why do you hate fun?
I don't think it's a very satisfactory puzzle (though I'm now thinking of a reason that I should be more satisfied with its puzzle-nature, which might cause me to upwardly revise my assessment). I didn't see it attempting to be (nor did it succeed at being, in my estimation) anything but a good puzzle.
Ogged, many thanks, I'm flattered--although I didn't realize I was making people so unaccountably angry. At any rate, yeah, I'm with washerdreyer, The Prestige made the major surprise "twist" at the end (i.e., how Tesla's machine worked) shockingly easy to see coming, and that sort of killed some of the excitement. I'm assuming this was all intentional, but I'm not sure why...