Sexism in the Media Open Thread

Conservative blogger David Brody complains about the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin in the media. The big news today is that Newsweek used the Runner’s World photo of Palin for their latest cover. I agree it’s disgusting that Newsweek chose to reuse this photo.
Where Brody has is wrong is when he claims that liberal [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians! I’m a little bit pressed for time this morning, because I have to get out of here earlier than usual to make copies of an exam for my class this afternoon. Nevertheless, I have a few stories to share with you before I rush out of here. You can [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning, Conflucians! This morning more than ever, I’m so grateful for all of you, and so glad we have this blog where we can discuss, argue and rant about politics and news events. I can’t begin to imagine what I would have done with out TC and all of you Conflucians over [...]

Timmy cries for help from the Well?

And it wasn’t Lassie that got the phone call.
I’m reading what is undoubtedly the most odd set of posts in the finance/econ blogs that I’ve read in some time.  Frankly, I’m not sure what to make of it so I’ll just turn to one of the participants Yves Smith in a thread called “Curious Meeting [...]

Friday Morning News and Views: Halloween Eve Edition

Good Morning Conflucians!!! It’s Friday and on top of that it’s Halloween Eve! And I’m looking forward to the TC Halloween party tonight, hosted by Stateofdisbelief! I hope to see you all there. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Rico, the bartender. Perhaps he’ll put in an appearance at the [...]

What will it take for Koolaid drinkers to finally accept reality?

The Obama administration’s betrayals of liberalism are ubiquitous. Has he ever kept a single one of his campaign promises? They could hardly be called promises anyway, since Obama had such a long history of voting “present” before he ran for President. Way back in January, 2008, I was asking Obama supporters to [...]

Open Thread: John Nichols Smacks Down “Whiner in Chief”

This morning at The Nation John Nichols sternly reprimands the Obama administration for its attempts to control “left of left” bloggers with humiliating “off the record” remarks from anonymous administration sources, as well as its childish “war” with Fox News Network
Nichols writes:
…before the president and his inner circle go all Spiro Agnew on us, they [...]

Bloggers, FTC regulations and disclosures

Ruh-Roh, we’ve been caught.  The FTC recently passed new regulations on bloggers.  From now on, if someone gives us something to review or asks for our endorsement of a product for some kind of renumeration, we have to admit it up front.  I know, I know, you’re probably wondering why the FTC wasn’t on top [...]

Bloggers Under the Bus and Over the Rainbow

I was going to do a nice staid article about the Fed and regulation but frankly it’s a nice sunny, tropical Sunday down here and it just doesn’t seem kind to overwhelm my brain or yours with Barky Frankisms and tales from the crypt of A(ll)yn Greenspan.  I scoured my usual sites for inspiration over [...]

Common Sense and the sensus communis: anatomy of an American pressure cooker

Gay-Lussac
The pressure of a fixed mass and fixed volume of a gas is directly proportional to the gas’s temperature.
This relationship is known as the Gay-Lussac’s Law and a pressure cooker is an example of the law in practice. Cooking under pressure creates the possibility of cooking with high temperature liquids because the boiling point of [...]