http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/opinion/krugman-the-centrist-cop-out.html?ref=opinion
" The problem with American politics right now is Republican extremism, and if you’re not willing to say that, you’re helping make that problem worse."
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THE FAN CHILD
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McEnroe-Borg 1980: A Great Match Endures
A new HBO documentary chronicles the relationship between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, including their epic 1980 Wimbledon final.I never learned to play.
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In Test Tube, Hint of Chemicals Coming Alive
Chemists and biologists are trying to generate the Frankensteinian spark that will jump the gap separating the inanimate and the animate.That will do the science. Now for designer genes. -
House Republicans Try to Roll Back Environmental Rules
Republicans have loaded a House appropriations bill with provisions to severely curtail environmental oversight.The Republicans will be in ruins. Grab money from homeland security. -
Will the Norway Massacre Deflate Europe's Right Wing? - Room for Debate
The killings could weaken nationalist fervor in Europe, as the Oklahoma City bombing cooled off militias in the U.S. in the late 1990s.I very much doubt it. They will yell more quietly for a time. -
Permaculture Emerges From the Underground
The eco-ideology known as permaculture has entered the mainstream.My kind of farming. -
The Best Way to Deal With Xenophobia - Room for Debate
Politicians should be askingWe and they. It is not easy to do. Xenophobia is a major source of hostility everywhere.The strange and distant would not be strange without it. -
America’s Credibility Is at Risk
The cost of fecklessness in Congress should be clear to everyone. The markets and the rest of the world are worried. We all should be.My problem with this editorial comes near the beginning:"They refused to support a plan to raise the limit — and impose overly harsh spending cuts — put forward by Speaker John Boehner."Their problem with the cuts is that they are not hash enough. -
The Future of Creem Magazine Is Complicated
A plan to revive Creem magazine, the irreverent and sardonic rock publication from the 1970s, is bogged down in financial and legal problems.I would not invest with any of these people. Over promise and underperform looks like policy. -
Peach Rivalry Becomes War Between the Tastes
It has been a long time since I had a really good peach.
What I see was picked green.If they are allowed to sit until ripe there is a two hour window when they are edible.They are never good. Dress Codes in New York Clubs: Will This Get Me In?
If clubs turn you away at the door, maybe your shirt or shoes are to blame.Dress uniforms are back. Sumptuary laws will come next.
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This Is Your Brain on Summer
To keep students from forgetting over the summer what they’ve learned, we should improve summer school.I hate when I find myself in favour of torture.It is better than rotting in front of a screen full of fantasy. -
Can’t We Do This Right?
While the Republicans and Democrats remain at a stalemate, let’s look at a way to approach the debt problem properly.This is not proper. -
Spotify Unshackles Online Music - David Pogue
This month, via Spotify, the music world took a great step forward toward the holy grail of a free, legal, song-specific and convenient service.I don't want to be a musicologist.I really don't want to have to plan my listening in detail.When does a user of Spotify hear new or different music? -
Behind the 'Us vs. Them' Mentality Over Islam - Room for Debate
Today, Islam as “the internal and external enemy” is a staple of European political discourse.A true statement in so far as it goes.I have some thoughts to add.Islam is an apostolic religion. It sets out to convert and bind in conversion. It has been very successful. Western pop culture has no such ambition. It is not of Islam. It is actively destructive of core Islamic values. It is highly contagious. Islam is under attack and it knows it. Islam's defenders are striking back as best they can. The acts are seen as hostile because they are hostile.The west strikes against these hostile actions and battle is joined, defensive on both sides. -
Print Books: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
At the end of the week, I’ll be moving west and writing about technology from The New York Times’s San Francisco bureau.I have several times culled my accumulation of books. The shelves remain full. He will refill his shelves after his move. He should take those things that he would replace in the next two years and those books that he cannot part with. Use them to pack the kitchen goods. -
Q. and A. on the U.S. Debt Ceiling
A crash course in all things debt ceiling.They neglected to discuss the political situation.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/opinion/krugman-the-centrist-cop-out.html?ref=opinion -
Eulogies for Bin Laden, Shrouded in Mystery in Pakistan
Who are the secret sponsors of a poetry and essay contest eulogizing Osama bin Laden at Pakistan’s largest university?I think there is a very common bit of malware that sends the machine address to a central server. Ask a black hat type.Putting such an attachment in a text file would be trivial.Contest traced.These people don't want to know. -
Israeli and Palestinian Women Take a Rare Trip to the Beach
A group of Israeli women risked criminal prosecution by taking Palestinians from the West Bank to swim in the sea — most of whom had never seen the ocean before.A wonderful thing to do that will make no difference. -
Bonuses for Billionaires
Wow! The logic of the Tea Party caucus in the G.O.P. really grows on you. Who needs air traffic control, anyway?Sarcasm. -
How Exercise Can Keep the Brain Fit
For those of us hoping to keep our brains fit and healthy well into middle age and beyond, the latest science offers some reassurance. Activity appears to be critical, though scientists have yet to prove that exercise can ward off serious problems...I need to get more of it.
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