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Crooked Timber
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made
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Exploding Heads Deathmatch: There Can Be Only One
Many thanks to the CT readers who've come up with examples of wingnuts' heads exploding as a result of Paul Krugman's Nobel prize. Now it's decision time. I've narrowed the field down to the five most impressive spontaneous human combustions that commenters here, at Kathy G.'s and at Brad DeLong's ...
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The Bounce
First, may I say the triptans are a marvelous class of drug? When you're wading through a 5 day migraine and liquids, not to mention solid food, are a distant memory. When the right side of your brain wakes you up every hour or two to pound a little harder ...
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The 42nd Parallel
Expanding my unsystematic researches into early 20th Century German typography and book design, I recently stumbled across this gem (click for larger):
It's the George Salter designed cover for a 1930 German edition of Dos Passos' The 42nd Parallel.
It's a perfect example of 'vague sense of a foreign land' phenomenon. He's ...
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The Name of This Band is Exploding Heads
As Kieran notes in comments below, the comments thread to Tyler Cowen's (perfectly reasonable) "Krugman post":http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/10/paul-krugman-wi.html is pretty hilarious. But given Krugman's place of pride in the wingnut demonology, I'm sure that this is only a mere scraping of what's out there on the Internets today. It furthermore occurs to ...
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“It’s a total surprise”
And indeed it was - Paul Krugman has won the Nobel Prize for Economics[1].
The citation says he got it "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" - ie for new trade theory. Which certainly did pretty much light a bomb under the subject when he ...
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