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Fan May Owe Taxes For Claiming Jeter’s 3,000th Hit
Christian Lopez, the fan who gave the ball in Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit back to the slugger, may owe stiff taxes on tickets and memorabilia bestowed on him by the Yankees.
The I.R.S. is desperate too. The parties will work it out.
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The Magic Lever
Any banker, Democratic Keynesian or staunch Republican who thinks he’s found the tool to master today’s economy might instead consider a range of competing options.http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/do-you-believe-in-magic/http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/john-taylor-and-the-zombies/http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/insincerely-yours-2/http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/chicago-calvinball/ -
No, We Can’t? Or Won’t?
Our failure to create jobs is a choice rationalized by an ever-shifting set of excuses.The net result is to push down wages to the bare survival level. This in the effort to produce a dispirited proletariat. The desire for a slave class seems never to have died. -
More Medical Schools Are Screening Applicants Closely for People Skills
A new admission process at medical schools involves a series of encounters meant to examine aspiring doctors’ ability to communicate and work in teams.The result of the team approach will be Medicine as an industry.Better social skills will make Medicine as practised by soulless technocratic automatons almost bearable. -
Ideology Trumps Economics
The editorial board at the Times is still pushing austerity and a
Greater Depression.
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Israel Bans Boycotts Against the State
The Israeli Parliament on Monday passed contentious legislation that effectively bans any public call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements.Not as bad as all that but it makes the attitude of the Knesset very clear.There will be no peace. -
Huaxi Journal: Sharing the Wealth in a Tiny Chinese Village
Huaxi, population 2,000, is known as the socialist collective that works — where public ownership of the means of production has made everyone not just equal, but rich, too.Define Public. This looks like a highly leveraged corporation with a rather small and localized group of stock holders. The directorate of the corporation keeps the stock holders happy in return for a free hand with the businesses.Happy empire. -
14 States Suffering Under Drought
A drought that some say could rival the Dust Bowl has spread from Florida to Arizona.It is really bad. There was very little in the aquifers to start with.Fracking has not helped. -
Vaccination Ruse Used In Pursuit of Bin Laden
The Central Intelligence Agency ran a phony program in Pakistan to obtain DNA from the Bin Laden family.It sounds a lot like poisoned cigars.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro#Assassination_attempts -
When Fatty Feasts Are Driven by Automatic Pilot
“Bet you can’t eat just one” (as the old potato-chip commercials had it) is, of course, a bet most of us end up losing. But why? Is it simple lack of willpower that makes fatty snacks irresistible, or are deeper biological forces at work?Fatty foods are addictive. That makes sense. Fatty foods cause the munchies.
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In Debt Talks, Obama Calls for ‘Biggest Deal Possible’
President Obama has been casting himself as a pragmatic centrist as negotiators try to reach a deal on the budget.I hope it is a deal they cannot accept.We have two right wings in this country. Between them is nowhere near the centre. If the form is rotary it could be. Dizzying. -
Family of Robert F. Kennedy Rethinks His Place at Library
As archivists prepare to make public 63 boxes of Robert F. Kennedy’s papers at the John F. Kennedy Library, his family members are having second thoughts about where they should be housed.Little brothers are a pushy bunch. Even their children are pushy.He should have been but was not. -
British Tabloid Targeted Investigators’ Phone Messages
After Scotland Yard began its initial criminal inquiry of phone hacking by The News of the World in 2006, five investigators found that their own messages had been targeted.Checking on the examiners is only rational. It does not look good. -
Debt Contagion Threatens Italy
A struggle between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his finance minister is threatening to make Italy’s economy a liability.Contractionary policies produce contraction. Austerity leads deflation. -
The Good Short Life With A.L.S.
Living with Lou Gehrig’s disease is about life, when you know there’s not much left.Time grows short for all of us.The things we really want to do grow in importance.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best. I LOVE YOU. -
At the Women’s World Cup, Drama Without All the Dramatics
Research has determined that women were much less likely than men to fake injuries on the soccer field. Still, the practice played a key role in United States’ quarterfinal victory over Brazil.Playing the officials is part of playing the game. -
Washington Becomes Only State to Close Its Tourism Office
Washington has become the only state with no statewide tourism office and no state money to promote itself to travelers.This shows good sense. -
Scientists Turn to the Web to Raise Research Funds
As research budgets tighten, a new crop of Web-savvy scientists is hoping the wisdom and generosity of crowds will come to the rescue." Hark, hark the dogs do barkthe beggars are coming to townSome in rags, some in tagsand some in a velvet gown.""Would a geology project on organic sedimentary rocks, for example, open as many wallets as the charismatic quail?" Ask an oil company.Mud is their reason for being. -
Immigrants May Be Fed False Stories to Bolster Asylum Pleas
Sometimes, the stories that immigrants offer to support pleas to remain in the United States are more fiction than fact.The point is that they want to be here. -
How Seawater Can Power the World
Nuclear fusion is an essentially inexhaustible source of energy that can be extracted from seawater.Sun light is fusion power. Surface fusion still does not work. I have no objection to "big science" but do the small stuff first.Usually "big science" is engineering. Doing it empirically is not the best way.
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