links for 2007-05-19 Uncertain Principles: While on the subject of chemists and acronyms, Derek Lowe has a post about journal acronyms, or how to pretend to be a research chemist. (Yes, it's Lagniappe Week here at Uncertain Principles...). Similar things happen in physics, th Bloomberg.com: Matthew Benjamin: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he will consult with international colleagues about a successor to outgoing World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, while stressing that the position should remain in U.S. hands. ``I inte Unqualified Offerings sends us to the Code of Hammurabi: Basically, learn to swim if you are litigious, and you'll do fine: If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his Mark Graber: In the beginning, there was the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Virginia. This is where, at age 22, Jerry Falwell began his professional career. His obituaries quickly note this fact, observe how he built his church and flock, then quickly move Easily Distracted: Intellectual Garbage Pickup: Miriam Burstein and Scott Eric Kaufman have done the necessary close critique of ACTA’s latest report. Considering how much the problems with this document resemble those I’ve identified in past work by Rootless Cosmopolitan: The Fatah gunmen who are reported to have initiated the breakdown of the Palestinian unity government and provoked the latest fighting may profess fealty to President Abbas, but it’s not from him that they get their orders. The le Marty Lederman says Doug Kmiec is a fool: I do not mean to be suggesting that the AG, DAG and head of OLC should resign any time a President chooses not to follow an OLC decision. But sometimes one should. And this is such a case -- involving a criminal s Mary Douglas: Dame Mary Douglas, who has died aged 86, was the most widely read British social anthropologist of her generation. If she had to be recalled for a single achievement, it would be as the anthropologist who took the techniques of a particularl Tom McCraw: Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction: Books: Thomas K. McCraw World Bank President: Wolfowitz, SAIS, CIA, SAIC: Is this true?... Matthew Yglesias: Gone missing from this analysis is any recognition of the extent to which the current terrible [Israel-Palestine] situation is the result of stupid American policy choices. The dynamic on the US-Israeli side has become one of self-fulfil "The Assault on Comey Begins" by Scott Horton: I’d been wondering: who would be picked to start the attacks on James Comey, a man not so dangerous for the truth he speaks as for his own integrity (next to which Alberto Gonzales and his team look like a Matthew Yglesias: The idea that a person would seriously write this in the course of an article that's supposed to make Murray Waas look bad should be taken as a sign that the author in question has gone insane. And, indeed, by all accounts I've heard the Boing Boing: Anti-sit technology photo gallery Glenn Greenwald: David Broder, Poster Child for the sickness of American journalism The New Republic cannot even mention that the Wall Street Journal has an editorial page Spencer Ackerman on Tony Blair: This is an exculpation? That al-Qaeda would make use of the U.S.'s position of occupying an Arab (mostly) country? Or that Iran would seek to turn its encirclement by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to its advantage? An Derbyshire: The reason that Rudy is getting so much support from conservatives, in spite of a poor record on social issues, is his Gestalt. It screams ANTI-LIBERAL! Rudy is the anti-Kerry—the very opposite of a mincing, apologetic, guilt-addled elite li Hilzoy: A few suggestions for [Wolfowitz's] successor: (1) If you don't want to resign under a cloud, don't create one. (2) If you think people are out to get you, don't hand them ammunition. (3) If you are worried about your reputation, remember that it Whimsley: Predicting hits may be like predicting the weather: In the New York Times physicist turned sociologist Duncan Watts writes about how cultural hits may be, like the weather, impossible to predict. It comes down to how much we like stuff because i Tim Burke: One of the many reasons I miss the Invisible Adjunct’s transformative weblog is that she succeeded in creating a “big tent” conversation which has since fractured into a more political and spiteful debate that I think is increasingly driv Whimsley: Packaging: I bought a pair of heavy duty kitchen scissors. They are secured to a cardboard backing panel by two thick translucent plastic bands, one around the blade and one around the handles. I need to cut these plastic bands. I need a pair of If this is the best use Wolf Blitzer can make of his time, he's in the wrong job: ""I was listening to [Rush Limbaugh] earlier today..." -- Wolf Blitzer Martin Wolf: China's great walls cannot keep the world out forever Robert's Stochastic thoughts: I agree that it is very hard to tell based on theory or micro data. Sad to say, this leaves us with crude macro data on enrollment and welfare in different countries or states. My impression is very strong that this evidence
