June 25, 2008: Ten Years Ago on Grasping Reality
New York Times Death Spiral Watch (Maureen Dowd Edition): Is there any way for somebody writing in good faith to write both these columns in three months?...
Oil and Speculation: Since we don't see either large inventories of tanker cars filled with oil on the sidings or futures prices for oil above spot prices to make storing marginally profitable, he concludes that speculation is not driving oil prices today...
Barbara Ehrenreich Pile-On: My brother reports that Flathead Lake, Montana is both highly beautiful and affordable...
Bill Gates Reviews Windows...: "So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package. The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)..."
Joe Klein Is Shrill!!: I really don't think it works that way. It's not that loyalties are in any sense "divided." Instead, it's an inability to even think of the idea that (interest of Likud) ≠ (interest of Israel) ≠ (interest of United States) or the idea that (interest of Texas oil barons) ≠ (interest of United States of America)... And Andrew Sullivan is shrill too...
