It makes sense that Slate - straddling internet culture and professional journalism - would be better situated to understand the phenomenon of blogging, but it’s still surprising that it’s taken so long for someone to say the obvious in the way Jack Shafer has. Best line: "Blogs are parasites, they say. Oddly, when the mainstreamers sup from the trough set out for them by the National Security Archive, the Center for Public Integrity, the GAO, and other institutions, nobody calls them parasites."
Tons of people have been pointing out the hypocrisy of the GOP’s "culture of life" given X, Y or Z, but the oft overlooked Economic Scene column in the Times follows the line of critique a little more, using the Shaivo case to examine the subfield of health economics. Tag line: "In extraordinary circumstances like this," President Bush said of the Terri Schiavo predicament, "it is wisest to always err on the side of life. Uwe E. Reinhardt, a Princeton University health economist, said that from his perspective President Bush was not quite right: the president should have said ‘err on the side of life years.’"
Chuck Tryon gets pissed off at know-nothing attacks on university professors and in particular the attempt to blame "liberals" for declining state university prestige when the big elephant in the room is the drastic decline of state funding for public higher education.
Tyler Cowen summarizes the research on tipping. Tag line: "Do we tip, in part, to produce the illusion of control over how we are treated?"
Charles Stein summarizes the oil market and reminds us despite what the TV network news reports, gas prices are not at their record highs if you consider real prices (as one should).
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