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NYT coverage of "Skip" Gates...Vanish Software
Confession: rabidly routing for the newspaper team! NYT had the story about the Vanish software in Tuesday's paper - science section, I believe. Just the kind of story that gets hyped on the Web but covered in a newspaper. Same is true of the Professor Gates story. Was it front page news? Personally, I don't think so because I sense that the ...
Posted to Readme by c2hubbard on July 23, 2009
Tabs in K's article
I saw Tab 1. But none of the others appeared in the text of the article. Did I miss something? Is there a way to get to these data?
Posted to Readme by Donald T Wolfe on September 17, 2008
Statistics Don't Lie?!
Mike, Everyone knows you can prove anything with stats. Did you even look at who controlled Congress during each time period to see how that influenced the numbers? Didn't think so. So the numbers don't lie, just the cheating columnists who try to pretend they are economists (or is it cheating economists who try to pretend they're columnists - ...
Posted to Readme by MadinNJ on September 16, 2008
Michael, Michael, Michael...
If you think the Republican's ''experience argument'' consisted only who sat in the Senate the longest...well, I know you know that's not so. Palin still has more YEARS of elected experience than Obama. But what is important is that her experience as governor makes her an ideal choice to buttress McCain's ''reform cred''. Yes, she comfort's ...
Posted to Readme by wynnj006 on August 31, 2008
Michael Kinsley's Logic
Kinsley's legendary mastery of logic has failed him. About Al Franken's problem explaining away bad jokes, he writes If comedy writers are thinking, ''I'd better not say that because it may not be funny and in 13 years I may decide to run for the Senate,'' we will end up with fewer good jokes on TV and fewer interesting people in the ...
Posted to Readme by mathpol on July 8, 2008
Both Rich AND Smart -- Now, THAT is RARE
I have been fulminating for years now about Harvard, and was happy to learn about Michael Kinsley's long ago household affiliation there. I was never headed for Harvard, but years later, learned that a high school classmate of mine, female from Homewood Floosmoor Community High School -- served Harvard as a Deputy Admissions Director for ...
Posted to Readme by MichaelBernard1 on June 19, 2008
Kinsley on McClellan
Thank you for the pitch perfect delivery. Its not about McClellan at all. Its about a group of talking heads who within minutes of each other all had the same line, over and over again. If there was any one single episode that would permit the conspiracy theorists among us to conclude that the right has a daily conference call to identify the ...
Posted to Readme by Shelly F on May 29, 2008
Re: McCellan has no right to speak?
Olaamigo, both you and Kinsley are right. I see you as saying that it's often hard to tell the truth when one's job/livelihood is at stake. And that getting the truth now is better than never. I think Kinsley is writing about difficulties that people encounter on the way to learning to love the truth. How do we see ourselves when we finally ...
Posted to Readme by newddle on May 29, 2008
Defining Defeat Downward
The Left in this country is determined to bring have a defeat for the US in Iraq. Why they are politically invested in our defeat has been a mystery to me. Apparently, gaining political power is more important than anything else. As the successes mount, they have had to redefine defeat. First there had to be an end in violence or the surge ...
Posted to Readme by fryde67 on February 26, 2008
Kinsley on NYT
Michael, you have written a masterpiece. NYT, QED. --The Wise Bard (H'71).
Posted to Readme by The Wise Bard on February 25, 2008

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