Modern Humorist - Happy Birthday, Modern Humorist A great big Happy Birthday to the pretentious druids at modern humorist. One year and still going strong. Who'd a thunk it? Hopefully they can keep it going for many years to come. Ask Jeez is still one of the best bits yet written on the web.
- posted by levinson @ 4/25/2001 07:17:00 PM

 
Subscribe to Salon Premium Salon's offering an option to subscribe to the site for two years? I'd like some assurance that they're going to last through the summer, much less two years. Not that I don't love the site, but I'm not big on sunk subscription costs.
- posted by levinson @ 4/25/2001 07:23:00 AM

 
Work has been almost total insanity these days and I've had almost no time for personal issues, much less to blog anything. This has been particularly stressful since Jess and I are looking for an apartment and I have had no time to run out and see some with the brokers we're working with. Not moving in until June 1, so there's some, but not much, time.
- posted by levinson @ 4/24/2001 01:14:00 PM

 
Sitting here watching Sportscenter and for the first time, I found the clock on the score bar useful as it flashed "7:08 am CT". I'm continually forgetting that we're one hour behind NYC here. Hopefully it will sink in before I make any major blunders.
- posted by levinson @ 4/18/2001 05:25:00 AM

 
In beautiful Arkansas for the week for work. Saw some fascinating bits of classic mid-western Americana on the way to the hotel from the airport. I thought a lot about what the lives of these people were like. There were cattle farms everywhere and I had a great conversation with the driver of my car about the area. All of this will have to wait until tomorrow though as tonight will be my first real sleep in a few days and a great respite after going to bed at 4am the last two nights in a row, and then waking up at 8 to go to work. Yes I am sitting here crying you a river right now.

Have a lap-top from work that I'm working on. This trip may go a long way towards convincing me that I would much prefer one of these as my main home computer. I think it would be worth it to splurge on a docking station, but it's really nice to sit in bed and work like this. Yes I am a little late to the party on this, but I do enjoy the expandability of the desktops.
- posted by levinson @ 4/17/2001 09:17:00 PM

 
New report adds to evidence that greenhouse gases cause global warming Good to know that W won't hear about this. Rather Cheney will surf into his office on a coal surfboard and an oil wave and re-assure him that there is still no "conclusive" proof that man-made pollution contributes to global warming. The Senator from Alaska's on the phone, he'd like to get the drilling approved while the evidence still isn't "conclusive".
- posted by levinson @ 4/13/2001 02:20:00 PM

 
Palm Gaming World: PortaBush v1.0 Bring W with you and help him run the country. All on your Palm. According to the AP, this thing has taken off in China.
- posted by levinson @ 4/13/2001 02:14:00 PM

 
Boston.com / Business Time for refund season. Here's hoping something good comes in the mail.
- posted by levinson @ 4/13/2001 01:45:00 PM

 
No love from Slate.com here. Maybe it was that blog about Kinsley assinine review of that blockbuster Anit-trust that bumped me off the list. I'm sorry Michael, I loved your piece on the estate tax. If Camille Paglia gets on there before I do, I'm taking the site down.
- posted by levinson @ 4/11/2001 01:40:00 PM

 
Muddled in the Middle I find it fascinating when people invoke the "family farm" as one of the staples of Americana. Krugman points out that no one has yet found an example of a family farm being sold off to pay estate taxes. What I think is more interesting is how few family farms there atually are. We like to think of our crops coming from family farms out in the mid-west, the ground tilled by sweat and an old tractor. It's a nice myth. Huge corporations own almost all the farms from southern Alabama to northern South Dakota. All the family farms were decimated in the depression and were never recovered. Banks foreclosed on loans and sold the farms to corporations. Now enourmous threshers track up America's landscape following the seeding and harvesting seasons with very little human involvement. There's a lot out there now for a populist politician to seize on right now. Plenty of deception coming from both sides that could be exploited. We'll see if anyone is bold enough to step forward.
- posted by levinson @ 4/11/2001 07:16:00 AM

 
Salon.com Politics | Jesse Jackson offers to go to China Holy lord, not 9 hours later, Jesse is putting his own foot forward as the solution to the "standoff". Beautiful. What are the odds that W actually takes him up on this. I'd love to be a fly on the wall of the meeting between Cheney and Rumsfeld when this comes up.
- posted by levinson @ 4/10/2001 06:37:00 AM

 
U.S. Shies Away From Threats in Plane Standoff With China Bravo W. All the supposed muscle that was supposed to make us respect the White House's foreign policy and make other countries quake before taking on our retired General and the legion of old hats at dealing with the evil empire has come up as limp as Bob Dole. Looks like it's time for Jessie Jackson to come out of retirement and go get some more of our boys back. Can't get a budget passed, breaking campaign promises left and right, and bungles minor foreign policy issue into a major embarassment. Which Bush is this? Does it matter?
- posted by levinson @ 4/09/2001 09:49:00 PM

 
The New York Observer Joe Conason on one of those items that are so difficult to keep track of with the media hyping the "showdown" with China over 40 soldiers who had to make an emergency landing. The democrats need their own Drudge for stuff like this.
- posted by levinson @ 4/04/2001 06:30:00 AM

 
The Class Warrior Last line is best in this one: "[L]et them eat cake. And drink arsenic." Another great op-ed. I need to find out where the White House is, if they are at all, responding to these pieces because they are too detailed and too damning not to be addressed. One would suppose either in the WSJ or the Financial Times. Send word if you know.
- posted by levinson @ 4/04/2001 06:23:00 AM

 
Post Office May End Sat. Delivery Yikes, this would be too bad. They're still in the early phase of study but this would bear further study on a variety of issues. For instance, I wonder if e-mail has had a profound effect on regular letter sending? Also, has having magazines and other subscriptions available over the net significantly effected the mail as well? The answer most would give: of course, stupid. But the study would help give a clearer picture of just how many people have forgone these subscriptions in favor of their cyber version and how many are doing both. Also, newspapers don't count for this since they deliver on their own. This would help to show if the 'net has truly effected small parts of the "Old Economy".
- posted by levinson @ 4/03/2001 03:23:00 PM

 
Smarter Money: Screwing Up -- Without the Disclosure
Cramer's only free offering from TheStreet.com. A column exclusively about mutual funds, and here he blasts them harsher than you'll read anywhere. All of our retirement money (among other things, pensions included) is tied up in this garbage and Cramer is the only one giving it its due attention. Talk about the need to accountability.
- posted by levinson @ 4/02/2001 10:15:00 AM