Please forgive this punt of sorts but my post on opera was gradually growing from a Puccini one act into my very own Ring cycle so offer up your answers to these political teasers whilst I struggle on like Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald himself.
#1) How exactly does Obama win?
I’m not saying he doesn’t, his [...]
The TED spread over the past month:
The TED spread is basically, as Wikipedia says, “an indicator of perceived credit risk in the general economy.” On Friday, after the House passed the $700 billion bailout, the measure saw a record close of 3.86. (Higher means more perceived credit risk. This high, any economist will tell you, [...]
Via Yglesias, who suggests the exciting contest will usher in a new era of socialist bank nationalizations. We should be so lucky.
I’ll be the first to admit that I suffer from the Palin blues. Since her nomination, I’ve had a hard time thinking about much else. And I know of at least three of you out there who are in the same boat.
The point of this post is to try to soothe those of [...]
We have to do something. I know some of you have been for a while now — shout-out here to Brooke and Rebecca and Farrell — but now we really have to act. We’ve all gotta spend the next 55 days working our tuchuses off to get Barack Obama elected.
I’ve been watching the unfolding campaign [...]