Experimenting with very light weight weblogging…Tumblr (3.0; @delong)http://delong.tumblr.com/<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/328267612/let-us-now-spea.html">Let Us Now Speak Ill of the Living...</a>: <p>Jesse Helms is dead. We will not speak of him. We will speak ill of the living—of all the living “conservatives” who are currently lionizing Helmls.</p> <p>Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein sum it up.</p> <p>…</p>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41228181http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41228181Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:50:19 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/328264713/washington-po-3.html">Washington Post Death Spiral Watch (Joe Stephens Edition)</a>: <p>Outsourced to Nate of FiveThirtyEight.com:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/07/most-irresponsible-piece-of-journalism.html">FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: Irresponsible Journalism Alert</a>: It took more than four months, but something finally beat out…</p></blockquote>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41228182http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41228182Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:50:19 -0400<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/09/03/010903ta_talk_comment">Hendrik Hertzberg: Sheer Helms</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41227410http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41227410Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:41:20 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/328232430/new-york-time-2.html">New York Times Death Spiral Watch (Maureen Dowd Edition)</a>: <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Can there be any conceivable, possible reason for a newspaper in good faith to publish this:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/opinion/02dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print">Maureen Dowd, July 2, 2008</a>: [Barack Obama] would like to kid around with reporters for a minute,…</p></blockquote></div>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223098http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223098Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:45:03 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/328230930/duncan-black-la.html">Duncan Black Lays Down the Party Line</a>: <p>From Atrios, apropos of the press’s treatment last week of General Clark:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008_07_06_archive.html#7368718981042677480">Eschaton</a>: <strong>So Predictable:</strong> This past week gave us a look at how things will be going forward. The McCain campaign will…</p></blockquote>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223099http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223099Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:45:03 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/328227022/yes-it-is-donal.html">Yes, It Is Donald Luskin Time...</a>: <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Correspondents have been asking me why I have given up setting out my periodic markers on the internet warning people that more often than not <i>National Review’s</i> Donald Luskin simply does not…</p></div>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223100http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223100Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:45:03 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/328237555/the-singularity.html">The Singularity Is in Our Past...</a>: <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Will McLean writes:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/2008/07/buying-power-of-14th-century-money.html">A Commonplace Book: Buying Power of 14th Century Money</a>: In the second half of the 14th century, a pound sterling would:</p> <ul><li>Support the lifestyle of a single peasant…</li></ul></blockquote></div>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223093http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223093Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:45:01 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/328235273/a-modest-propos.html">A Modest Proposal on Unemployment Reporting</a>: <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>From Barry Ritholtz:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/06/unemployment-re.html">The Big Picture | Unemployment Reporting: A Modest Proposal (U3 + U6)</a>: U6, on the other hand, is the broadest measure of Unemployment: It includes those people counted…</p></blockquote></div>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223094http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223094Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:45:01 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/328235275/wimpy-ross-dout.html">Wimpy Ross Douthat Resorts to Half Measures Only!</a>: <p>One of the big problems of the world is these wishy-washy centrists who offer us milk tea and weak toast. Here Matthew Yglesias identifies a problem:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/what_prequels.php">Ross Douthat</a>: I was watching Star Wars IV:…</p></blockquote>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223095http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41223095Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:45:01 -0400<a href="http://tech.kateva.org/2008/07/my-new-number-one-blogger-request-fix.html">Gordon's Tech: My new number one Blogger request: fix backlinks with whitelisted URLs</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41222305http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41222305Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:36:03 -0400<a href="http://jackiekessler.com/catandmuse/2008/07/04/i-femmebot/">Jackie Kessler - Cat and Muse: Freya Nakamichi-47</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41222306http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41222306Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:36:03 -0400<a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/05/the-political-economy-of-networks/">John Quiggin: The political economy of networks</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41110427http://delong.tumblr.com/post/41110427Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:55:32 -0400<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/04/usa?gusrc=rss&feed=commentisfree">Frederick Douglass: Fourth of July address</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40992642http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40992642Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:10:23 -0400<a href="http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/2008/07/14th-century-social-pyramid.html">Will McLean: A Commonplace Book: The 14th Century Social Pyramid</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40986627http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40986627Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:05:10 -0400<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/raiders-vikings.html?c=y&page=1">Sea Stallion From Glendalough</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40909319http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40909319Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:57:17 -0400<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN0244077620080702">Soyoung Kim: Merrill says GM bankruptcy possible| Reuters</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40899836http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40899836Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:46:49 -0400<a href="http://www.constitution.org/eb/rev_fran.htm">Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40899837http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40899837Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:46:49 -0400<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal/~3/326211778/new-york-time-1.html">New York Times Death Spiral Watch (Energy/Speculation/Journalism/Internet Timothy Egan Edition)</a>: <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>An unexpected mental collision, as my reading and thinking about speculation crashes into my reading and thinking about “why oh why can’t we have a better press corps?”</p> <p>Let me back up. Back in…</p></div>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40897888http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40897888Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:18:46 -0400<a href="http://www.pkarchive.org/">The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40894725http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40894725Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:41:39 -0400<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E4DB1139F93AA15757C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print">Paul Krugman: Reckonings; The Real Wolf</a>http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40894726http://delong.tumblr.com/post/40894726Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:41:39 -0400