links for 2007-05-14 Economist's View: George Orwell's essay "Notes on the Way" has this passage: Human types supposedly extinct for centuries, the dancing dervish, the robber chieftain, the Grand Inquisitor, have suddenly reappeared, not as inmates of lunatic asylums, but as Ezra Klein: I think the Bush administration's approach to personnel is a similarly huge problem. You're not going to get much out of the public sector if you aren't attracting, retaining, and empowering talent within it. Positions requiring highly skilled Donkey Path: Hungering for News and Perspective: stopped reading Joe Klein years ago. It was nothing personal. I simply got to the point where I knew what he was going to say and I noticed that he didn't add much to the knowledge that I already had about Charlie's Diary: Shaping the future: As projections of a near future go, the one I've presented in this talk is pretty poor. In my defense, I'd like to say that the only thing I can be sure of is that I'm probably wrong, or at least missing something as b John Quiggin: Conserva-bible: I can’t resist following Conservapedia, the Tlön version of Wikipedia, in which the liberal, anti-American bias of the Earth version is replaced with virtue and apple pie. But where did this bias come from, and how is it s Annotation of Pacific Northwest Arboreal Octopus - Conservapedia At Journal, Slim Margins Open Door to Murdoch The Bobblespeak Translations