links for 2007-04-19 Eugene Robinson: Are They Serious?: Rove, Wolfowitz and Gonzales are making the last-ditch argument of a cheating husband caught in flagrante: Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? (tags: 20070417 bushisms impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment) Bruce Bartlett: Blogs & Economics (tags: 20070417 economics internet weblogs invisible_college) Felix Salmon: £1 = $2: Those of us with a vaguely transatlantic bent have been mentally doubling UK prices (or halving US ones) for some time, but now it's official: the British pound is worth more than $2 (tags: 20070417 international_finance exchange_rates economics) Pith and Substance: I also commend Matthew Yglesias's response to Dennis Ross. Ross thinks it makes sense to impose, as a precondition on negotiations with Abbas and Fatah, that they prevent any attack on Israel by their sworn enemies in Hamas. Yglesias (tags: 20070417 Middle_East Israel utter_stupidity) Ryan: The Bellows » Creating the Suburbs: All of which is very interesting. What’s really fun to think about are the ways in which this has all changed recently. On the one hand, suburbs have become more diverse in economic and demographic terms. On th (tags: 20070418 cities economics urban suburbs white_flight) Paul Kiel: Sampson couldn't say who had put Bogden on the list (even though he was the "keeper of the list") or why. He'd never looked at Bogden's performance, and neither did Alberto Gonzales. The only thing he can remember is that there was "a general f (tags: 20070418 attorneys justice impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment) James Fallows: It has been obvious for quite a while that calling the effort to contain violent extremists a “global war on terror” does nothing to help the cause, and hurts in many ways. It unifies opponents who might otherwise have little in common. (tags: 20070418 grand_strategy impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment) James Fallows: I was wrong to suggest that Paul Wolfowitz was like Robert McNamara. That is disrespectful to McNamara. The better comparison is to Jimmy Swaggart. (tags: 2007048 wolfowitz fallows world_bank utter_stupidity) Robert Waldmann advises Republicans: tax progressivity No. Never. not ever. NO. Change the subject. Talk about Abramoff. Talk about Katrina. Do not admit you know what the words mean. Tell jokes about Cheney with a shot gun. Anything but tax progressivity (tags: 20070418 waldmann fiscal_policy Republicans utter_stupidity) John Scalzi: Whatever: Comment Thread Rules: This is not a democracy. As Sylvester Stallone said in that classic of futuristic jurisprudence, Judge Dread, -- "I am the law!" (actually, Stallone says something like "Huhhhyeeehamdelaaaaaw!" But you know whe (tags: 20070418 internet rules weblogs comments) Teresa Nielsen Hayden: Moderation isn't rocket science: You can’t have a good online discussion without moderation. Every weblog out there that has good comment threads has a policy of moderating the discussion and kicking out the fuggheads. I swear, Co (tags: 20070418 comments internet web moderation nielsen_hayden weblogs) Misogyny On The Web And In The World - TalkLeft: From Hillary Clinton to women academics, particularly in the sciences, to sports coverage to news anchors (yes, I think Katie Couric is awful, but no more so than Brian Williams, and it seems clear to me th (tags: 20070418 gender misogyny internet)
