Matt Yglesias

25 Responses to “Chu-mania”

1. Richard Cownie Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

   Clearly Chu will get a seat at the table when any discussions about investments in energy infrastructure get discussed. And clearly in any such discussions he’ll be the most highly qualified person to discuss the technicalities. That makes me
   highly optimistic that we’ll see big investments in a better
   electricity grid, and in solar power, and not so much talk about
   the technically implausible “clean coal” boondoggle.

   Chu won’t have the power to take those decisions on his own, but
   he’s going to have a heck of a lot of influence.

2. Don Williams Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

   RE “It was observed to me by a correspondent ”
   ————
   One of the benefits of a Harvard-educated blogger is the endearing use of the passive voice when he acknowledges that several of his commenters pointed out that he has hilariously stepped deeply in shit.

   I suppose that is supposed to make the smell more fragant.

   http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/12/steven_chu.php#comment-910198

3. Don Williams Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

   I wonder if Matthew has noticed yet that there’s a BIG hole in the Obama transition: Who’s going to be Director of National Intelligence ? Code name Big Spook.

   Or is it still a secret that only the Ruskies, Chinese and Bin Laden know?

4. Adam Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

   Why does Don always make a second, smaller post immediately after any post he makes?

   Is it some strategy he thinks will get people to pay attention to him? Seriously, it happens virtually every time.

5. sunsin Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

   One of the benefits of a Harvard-educated blogger

   Some of the commentators on this blog have the worst damn cases of intellectual penis envy I’ve ever seen.

6. Don Williams Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

   Re Adam’s comment “Why does Don always make a second, smaller post immediately after any post he makes?”
   ————-
   Why does Adam think Don would give a hairy rodent’s posterior for Adam’s whiny, limpwristed editorial direction?

7. l e o Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

   I was a graduate student at Stanford when Steve Chu still worked there, and one thing that is interesting about him is he comes from the scientific equivalent of the Emmanuel family. He has a younger and an older brother who have equally impressive resumes.

   He mentions his older brother Gil Chu in the video, and Gil is now a professor at Stanford University and does cancer research. Gil Chu has a PhD and an MD. His younger brother, Morgan, is easily the most financially successful member of the family and is a partner at a major patent law firm. Morgan Chu was named one of the top 10 trial lawyers in the nation by the National Law Journal.

   A friend worked in Steve Chu’s lab when he won the Nobel Prize. He joked to me that until he got the prize, Steve was seen as the black sheep of the family by comparison.

8. matt Says:
   December 15th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

   via matt, a Berkeley physics colloquium delivered by Stephen Chu, for which he was reportedly ill-prepared.

9. SLC Says:
   December 16th, 2008 at 7:09 am

   Re sunsin

   The blogs resident Bolshevik, Mr. Williams is a graduate of UVA, better known as Utterly Vacuous Assholes.

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