http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/ en-us postrel@dynamist.com Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:12:21 -0600 http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003013.html Naomi Wolf's Harper's Bazaar essay on Angelina Jolie has attracted contemptuous comment. “An absurd, overwrought, swooning love letter,” Willa Paskin called it on DoubleX. Paskin’s disgust recalls Ron Rosenbaum’s condemnation of Tom Junod’s 2007 Esquire profile of the actress,... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003011.html Courtesy of Flickr user .faramarz, who has many, bloodier photos from the protests. [Cross posted from DeepGlamour]... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003010.html In 1898, Nym Crinkle (the pen name of Andrew C. Wheeler) made the following prediction for a century hence. He was only 20 years or so off the mark: Every person of fairly good education and of restless mind writes... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003009.html The search is on.... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003007.html [Cross posted from DeepGlamour.net] The malls are empty, and retailers are crying for customers. American women are getting heavier by the day. Yet stores like Ann Taylor and Bloomingdale’s, and lines including Liz Claiborne and Ellen Tracy, are slashing their... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003006.html The state is in fiscal collapse, so the California legislature is doing what it does best--finding new things to regulate. The latest a vegetable mandate for day care center lunches. The LAT's Mary MacVean reports: The Assembly has passed a... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003004.html The WaPost notes that the "cap-and-trade" bill sponsored by Henry Waxman and Edward Markey is, in fact, loaded with all sorts of direct federal regulation of a decidedly dictatorial command-and-control nature. In fact, the bill also contains regulations on everything... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003003.html After my Medicare First meme bounced around the blogosphere (thanks, Glenn, for the initial link), I got an email from Peter Orszag at OMB, asking to chat. His major points in our subsequent phone conversation: 1) The administration does have... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003002.html But how do these happily out-of-work people pay their bills? Isn't that a basic question reporter Kimi Yoshino should answer before leaping into discussions of "narcissism" and the "generational shift"? What makes funemployment financially possible? Are these people living on... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003001.html In a remarkably disingenuous report, the Council of Economic Advisers assumes the can opener of easily reduced health care costs. One crucial argument, illustrated by this map, is the presumed waste represented by disparities across Medicare regions (click for a... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003000.html Is taxonomy disappearing?... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/002999.html In an important column, the WaPo's Maya MacGuineas echoes points I made, in a more specific context, here and, even more explictly, here. Her conclusion: Here is the bottom line: Most health-care inflation is the result of new technologies. Bending... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/002998.html Derek Lowe explains.... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/002997.html Like Cato's Dan Mitchell, quoted in this LAT article on what the government should do with its auto company stock, my first instinct is to say, "Divest immediately." But I'm not so sure that's right. Owning a big chunk of... http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/002996.html Tough but fair words from Jim Glassman: I head a nonprofit group that encourages developing nations to adopt policies that will lead to prosperity — starting with transparency and the rule of law — and hold up America as a...