A bunch of new links on the Basic Concepts and Terms in Science list (or my 'enhanced' list, if you prefer).
Bitch PhD has a new (paying!) gig at Suicide Girls News Blog and starts out with a post explaining the Plan B: How Does This Plan Work?
Revere on Effect Measure: Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: the Edwards blogger dust-up
Ezra Klein, in an op-ed in The Guardian (online only): We want a divider, not a uniter, and more on the topic on his own blog: More Shamefaced Obama Skepticism
Chuckles1 puts it even better: The OTHER Abraham Lincoln
A comment by Elizabeth Edwards - Response to a Rhetorical Analysis - on the MyDD diary: The Problem with John Edwards' Urban Radicalism (Or you can see the same Diary and the same comment in the context of different other commenters on DailyKos)
Catchawave: The Man Who Saved Bill Clinton's Ass, An Anniversary 2/12/99
Kos: 'I Was Wrong'
Digital Journal: John Edwards Blog Has A Very Refreshing Hands-Off Policy
Neil the Ethical Werewolf: Welcome Chris Bowers!
David Neiwert on Orcinus: Donohue and the Jews
Chris Bowers on MyDD is on a quest:
This Isn't Over
Keep Piling On The Pressure
Donahue As An Example of a Large Problem
First Democratic Campaign Disses Edwards
Comments
To be honest, I can't find much fault in the comments on MyDD that say Edwards' populism is fake.
I grew up in Israel, where income tax tops at 50% and there's a 17.5% VAT on top of it, where the public health care system is crappy but still universal, where people are aghast that the Gini index is 0.391 (the US bottomed at around 0.387 in 1968), where until recently people were afraid of the unions, and where every worker who's laid off is entitled to six months of unconditional unemployment insurance. And I was keenly aware that it was far from a social democratic paradise, and there was still a long way to go:
I went to college in Singapore, where income tax tops at 20%, where the poor have to work into their 70s and 80s to survive, where strikes are illegal, where there's no unemployment insurance at all, and where the Gini index is the highest in the developed world.
So excuse me if I don't treat issues like whether to have a Swiss- or German-style universal health care system, or whether to spend an additional $20 billion on workers' comp or not, as pressing concerns. You could just as well try selling naming streets after Martin Luther King to a recent immigrant from South Africa who grew up under apartheid.
Posted by: Alon Levy | February 11, 2007 10:44 PM