Month: March 2010

• "It was not immediately clear how he endeavored to restore the possum's life." http://bit.ly/b8XZHv #
• Hoping 5 interviews will have provided sufficient material for the 350-word article I need to write this weekend. #
• So looking forward to my wife's unemployment. #
• Man, it's so offensive that the federal government is taking over the federal government's student-loan industry. #
• Tactical error by GOP? Forcing reconciliation bill back to House may create opportunity to add public option. http://bit.ly/aUANOb #
• Websites: I will never take your surveys if you are not offering money or other concrete compensation Just saying. #
• Frum on HCR: "[T]he most radical voices in the party and the movement … led us to abject and irreversible defeat." http://bit.ly/cFW4Sp #
• HCR = "Fed's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago." http://nyti.ms/cppt37 #
• American Dream (of working your way to top) is easier in Canada than America: http://bit.ly/ajYj2j #
• Belief in divine authority really is the only credible basis for morality, isn't it? http://bit.ly/99h4DV #
• Megan McArdle in a nutshell: "a sense of overwhelming indignation in search of an argument." http://bit.ly/bkl2kO #
• So are we still going to have that civil war now? http://bit.ly/cPhKIO #
• My latest Went West column: why would anyone move away from Missoula? http://bit.ly/a0HcHT #

• I like access to health care as much as next guy-but not at cost of making abortion slightly less convenient. http://bit.ly/cAqLaz #
• "Bachmann: “˜I don’t mean any disrespect’ when I accuse the media of “˜treason.’" http://bit.ly/aYlPU6 #
• Walmart undercutting… payday lenders? http://bit.ly/d2YJGO #
• Starting to remember which houses with dogs to avoid when I'm walking with a sleeping baby. #
• "It’s not rocket science: 100 rules for NASA project managers." http://bit.ly/be3hPt via @mstibbe #
• Really glad we set Coen's tantrums ahead one hour on Sunday morning. #
• DIsappointed that I only learned of Missoula's supplementary March leaf pickup when the trucks showed up. #
• Paranoid political style in a psychological nutshell: focusing anger on powerful foe mitigates our fears. http://bit.ly/akrrDD #
• Latest Went West column: reckoning the costs of moving from a city to a small town. http://bit.ly/aKfD5J #

• Good news: Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advisory panel of Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. http://bit.ly/aEQkra #
• "[A]ny single scientific study alone is quite likely to be incorrect." http://bit.ly/a2jduN #
• Nate Silver argues -contra Greenwald, et al.-that libs have not been "scammed" out of public option. http://bit.ly/ciFbBa (Latin corrected!) #
• Nate Silver argues -contra Greenwald, at. al.-that libs have not been "scammed" out of a public option. http://bit.ly/ciFbBa #
• Obama (acc. to Brooks): "Government should address problems without interfering with the dynamism of the market." http://bit.ly/ayV97n #
• Ta-Nehisi Coates: "'Obama isn't tough enough' = escape hatch for [liberals] who don't want to think." http://bit.ly/cqV1Z0 #
• Ruane Manning horse clock! #
• Toyota: 20 million cars sold, 56 deaths. Please stop obsessing over this. http://bit.ly/9SDppW (And if it happens to you, NEUTRAL!) #
• Breaking: people who knew serial killer found him not"nice" or "normal" but rather "creepy and obnoxious." http://bit.ly/analwx #
• Thanks @angelahopp for RTing my latest Went West column, "Some of my best friends are cities." http://bit.ly/bYWTBT #
• The scarcity of political reporters who understand "reconciliation" begs the question why we pay attention to them at all. #
• Adventures in transcribing an Australian: "hit a bug with it in beta = "did a bundle with the data." #
• Hey, why not read the famous David Foster Wallace commencement speech at Kenyon? It's famous for a reason: http://bit.ly/ZSztG #
• "If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?" http://bit.ly/a9Q2Kr #
• My latest Went West column: I don't hate cities. I just don't want to live in one right now. http://bit.ly/bYWTBT #wtcomm @wtcommunities #

• Just turned off a bunch of notifications in Facebook. I feel free! (So it's nothing personal if I don't respond to your comment.) #
• Your reality is out of date: on "mesofacts," facts that change so slowly you'll miss it if you're not paying attention. http://bit.ly/8YPxVP #
• Forget all my noodling at Went West (http://bit.ly/dw8AFq), here's a real reason not to live in a city: http://bit.ly/dzl3Uh #
• Why do people tweet news items without a link? #
• Most annoying thing about Macs: having to beseech and then wait for them to eject things. Does whatever causes this benefit me in some way? #
• Real estate! #
• Ira Glass: "The natural state of all writing is mediocrity." #
• Miss. Co is short election judges, but this is first I heard of training-and I'm a former judge. Comm. fail? http://bit.ly/dgXbRX #
• "[D]oves were released as a symbol of peace … as fireworks burst in the sky, catching many birds in the cross-fire." http://bit.ly/c0iJqf #
• Grateful the sun is not out today. #
• Wow, Diane Ravitch now sounds… sane about No Child Left Behind. http://bit.ly/c8Lfvi #
• Buy a raincoat. Soon, Republicans' heads will be exploding all around you. http://bit.ly/935oEX #
• Our mailman has taken to wearing a blue fedora (or maybe it's a trilby?). I wonder if it is an official USPS uniform item. #
• Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss. http://bit.ly/9c78mu #
• So glad I decided to get some physical therapy for my back. (Tara at Alpine PT for Missoula people.) #
• At my desk late, setting up for a conference call with India and Australia. #
• Love when "looting" footage shows "looters" throwing food out into crowds of strangers. I thought reporters needed BS detectors. #
• If health-care reform is really a multi-billion-dollar "giveaway" to insurers, why are they now fighting it? http://bit.ly/9LpD6g #
• Advice to criminals: don't keep a diary. http://bit.ly/9PX12n #
• Man, more post-quake looting. Why don't people in places where infrastructure is destroyed just wait patiently for it to be rebuilt? #
• Well, now that spring is here in Montana, guess I'll just throw away all of these winter clothes…. #
• "We used the wrong measurements to decide if childhood mental illness is real, and we reached the wrong conclusions." http://bit.ly/aPdArz #
• "Come to terms with the fact that your breaths are limited, and your days numbered. You have to budget your outrage." http://bit.ly/b6vagL #
• Google fixed a problem by using "Wittgenstein's theories about how words are defined by context". http://bit.ly/cHUsb0 #
• If liberals give up snootiness/evangelicals retire sanctimony, might make progress against enemies of humanity. http://nyti.ms/9MThoA #
• What's worse, a targeted, surgical assassination, or a drone attack that kills innocent bystanders? http://bit.ly/9ezSk5 #
• Do I know the kind of people who can tell me what's so great about an app that opens WPF resource dictionaries really quickly? #
• My latest Went West column looks at my changing relationship to city life/Baltimore. http://bit.ly/al65qo @wtcommunities #wtcomm #