May 18th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Endgame
Some birthday links:
— Will libertarians give up and move to Canada?
— Hot new teacher performance pay research.
— Should we invade the Cayman Islands?
— Jerry Taylor is still getting roughed-up at the Corner.
— Most states are too lazy to put together a proposal for education stimulus money.
I’m feeling old.
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May 18th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Jerry Taylor is the Frank Grimes of the Cornerverse.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
There’s an incredible amount of irony in Ponnuru’s comment to Taylor. The Cornerite’s don’t seem to understand that that is exactly what Taylor is trying to tell the Republicans is happening to them.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Libertarians should look into our Human Rights Commissions first.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Well Happy Birthday then.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
ok, i’m a canadian, and that first link made me laugh out loud.
sure its great to point out what canada has done that corporate interests might support, but to ignore the other key aspects of why our system works is moronic…
we have universal health care
we have higher personal income tax rates
we have an intact financial regulatory system that didn’t entirely cave to special interests
we have higher minimum wage and other labour protections such as year long maternity leave
not sure the libertarians would like those things too much
May 18th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Hot new teacher performance pay research.
Why did the reasearchers limit their research on performance pay to hot new teachers? (Or is the reason obvious?)
May 18th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Hey! Happy Birthday!! You are old! But not as old as me.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Hey, Ramesh: what, exactly, makes you think that Republicans are in a position to lecture anyone about political irrelevance?
May 18th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Thanks for the link on lazy states. I’m firing off an email to my governor right now – we definitely need the money.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
One can only hope that Jonah the Whale, K-Lo, Ramesh and the rest of the gang who couldn’t shoot straight will continue to ignore the more sane members of their tribe.
While Jerry points out that the Easter Islanders have cut down the last tree, K-Lo and the Gang continue to erect big stone Limbaugh heads.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
“I’m feeling old.”
No whining till after 30, please.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I too fired off a letter to my governor, and *then* looked to see if the DoE’s list is accurate. We’re talking about funds from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, right?
According to the first few Google results, including the SD State U Alum Assoc., my own state’s DoE (PDF), and the NEA, it seems that the Secretary Duncan’s list needs updating. Am I missing something?
May 18th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I was wondering the other day why a group of well-armed pirates doesn’t invade the Caymans. That seems like an enormous criminal opportunity.
I too felt old when I turned 28. But then, I realized that I was only going to get older, so 28 was as young as I was likely to ever be again for the rest of my life. Looking back 12 years later on, 28 is absurdly young.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
BTW, Matt, IMO yer too bleeping young to start feeling old. It didn’t really hit me that I wasn’t in my 20’s anymore until I got to talking to a Marine pilot who was about retire from the service. We were both 40.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
The only logical place for a JohnGalt loon to move is a completely lawless area; otherwise they’re “moochers” under the protection of a government that they aren’t willing to pay into. IOW, unless GlennReynolds is willing to move to Somalia, he should stop pushing the GoingGalt thing. Regarding the Cato bit, what they forget is all the non-financial issues; no surprise there. Meanwhile, MattY’s buds in the BHO admin are moving us closer to a non-financial Canada-style system.
So, they’re all wrong.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Feeling old, eh? At least your not as old as my younger sister – 41! (Sob~)
May 18th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I join gingerbugjones’s laughter. That Canada may elect to go a bit more towards classic liberal economics says nothing about our need to get going in the other direction.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Happy birthday!
Did you at least get cake for your birthday? I didn’t.
Do you know what will really make you feel old? If you grew up with Winona Ryder as your teen goth girl fantasy date, only to see her this year perform as Spock’s Mom.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Me too.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Well-armed pirates seizing the Caymans would wind up with the cash from everyone’s wallets, and the contents of the local ATM’s. Everything else is ones and zeroes on (hopefully) encrypted hard drives.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Davis beat me to it, there isn’t really anyting in the Cayman’s for a pirate to steal
May 18th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Shouldn’t libertarians be moving to that small government utopia, Somalia?
May 18th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Happy Birthday!
Don’t let anyone tell you shouldn’t feel your own mortality creeping up on you.
May 18th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
REGARDING COMMENT 22 by MIKE J
You were joking of course, but the sad thing is that i actually read an editorial a year ago by a conservative that claimed that the economic climate in Somalia was great because of the lack of government. And yes, they were serious.I am generally in favor of smaller government, but that editorial was beyond parody. I am sorry to say that i do not remember the author.
May 18th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
By the way, Goldman, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley are apparently applying to pay back their TARP money, with the authorities apparently saying they will approve paybacks in waves (so these banks are competing to get in the first wave). They may also be kicking in some extra vig to buy back the warrants.
May 18th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
28 was the age when my body started feeling old. If you don’t have that problem, consider yourself lucky, you little prickl./
May 18th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Twenty eight seems so young now. You really start to feel old when:
all your doctors are younger than you.
prostate exams now seem normal.
you can’t remember a time when some part of your body didn’t hurt.
you go to more funerals than weddings.
your friends’ kids are graduating from college.
those complaints your grandparents had now make sense.
you really do want those damn kids off your lawn.
May 18th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
In addition (and from the female side), you feel old when:
strangers call you “ma’am”
the people running the country are your age or younger
you remember things that people writing culture pieces have no idea of.
Happy birthday, Matt.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Sorry, typo, obviously. I meant shmeckel.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Remember, this is the oldest you have felt so far!
There are many many 75 cent (plus postage) copies of Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot at half.com. Do your bit for the stimulus and buy a copy from a reseller, have it mailed to Jerry Taylor at the National Review address. Then he can regift to all his swell confederates and friends!
May 18th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
speaking of feeling old, it’s the ten year anniversary of the Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin.
That made me feel old.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Happy Birthday!
May 18th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I’m excited about going to see Green Day this summer, although my son informs me that I cannot allow myself to be seen anywhere near him once we’re inside.
Should all this make be feel old or youngish? Only pretty as you feel….
May 18th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Cute link to the Libertarian/Canada thing.
One thing though, this last point? That Canada has”Decentralized power within its federation of provinces” ignores pretty much everything that’s happened in Canadian Federalism since WWII.
May 18th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
1) Did anyone tell you that the angle of a male erection drops as age increases? Initially, they point about 60 degrees above the horizon, then they’re pointing toward the horizon and eventually toward the ground (even when ..er.. fully tumescent)
Might want to get a protractor and check it out.
Have a nice birthday.
May 18th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Hot new teacher pay research? Hardly. Most of the report says research finding are not yet available.
The “study” does a bad job of laying out the practical nature of teacher incentive pay.
1. Assumes teachers top motivator is extrinsic, i.e. pay.
2. Assumes most of the incentive pay is via bonus, i.e. teachers are like a rat pressing a bar.
3. The problems to be solved by incentive pay are systemic in nature. Rather than address the system problem, implement a complex incentive pay system.
May 19th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Nice job on MSNBC, birthday boy.
Just remember: There’s not going to be an investigation, Matthew. Norah O’Donnell hath forbade it.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Since the Canadian fucktards slashed my tires just for having US plates on the car the last time I was up there, I don’t think so.
Meanwhile, Terminator was officially canceled today (actually yesterday, but the Fox upfronts were today.) No surprise to me, since the show was run into the toilet by that idiot Friedman. I say this despite Zack Stentz putting my name in one episode of the show! That was cool, but it doesn’t change my opinion.
But in a surprising move, the equally low rated Dollhouse was picked up for season 2! So we get Eliza Dushku, Dichen Lachman, and Olivia Williams back for another run at my groin!
May 19th, 2009 at 11:53 am
In other news, Nils Gaup’s “North Star” (1996) is out on DVD and at the netflix.
Sadly, his excellent “Pathfinder” (1987) has yet to be released on DVD in North American (region 1) format.
May 19th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I don’t think Ramesh Ponnoru knows the meaning of the word irrelevant.