links for 2007-07-14 Read Montague: Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions The Newshoggers: Larry Sabato is a creator and purveyor of elite press conventional wisdom, and this wisdom is often and predictable wrong... The Newshoggers: The USA Today article on the January Karbala attack had two interesting points. The first was the complete infilitration of the Iraqi police and security forces that were responsible for guarding the outer perimeter of the compound Paul Krugman: An Unjustified Privilege: I watch Senate Democrats waffle over what should be a clear issue of justice and sound tax policy — namely, whether managers of private equity funds and hedge funds should be subject to the same taxes as ordinary Underbelly: Poetry Link of the Day: Paul Celan: Todesfuge Scientific American: The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis Boing Boing: Bunnie Huang's blog-series on Chinese manufacturing: The size of the factories, iPod City's own factory off-ramp, the enormous cohort of women workers in Shenzen -- China's manufacturing is at a scale that beggars the imagination. Ezra Klein: Is The Wall Street Journal Worth Saving?: Like many others, I'm cool to the idea of Rupert Murdoch buying the Journal. But there is an upside to it. While many professional media observers have the secret decoder manual that tells them to igno The Best Curve-Fitting Ever | Cosmic Variance Rick Perlstein: You read what the mayor of Shaker Heights said in the Times: "It's a tragedy and it's just beginning. All those shaky loans are out there, and the foreclosures are coming. Managing the damage to our communities will take years." In the fiv
