Paul Krugman’s column today titled “Working the Refs,” which I linked to this morning in this post, is absolutely wonderful for its account of the breadth of what amounts to largely successful attempts at movement-rightwing takeover of so very much of American public life—journalism reportage and editing methodology, political punditry, decisonmaking by college and university […]

Via the overworked Tom Bozzo, who I keep hoping will post here about Ford’s plan to triple their Electric Car output for next year, Tom Toles Explains It All to You: Oh the transgression was bad, but we the proud and truth-loving American public just cannot abide the lies! We are TRUTH-SEEKERS around here, and […]

I believe this is also how the Laffer Curve was created on Dick Cheney’s napkin: I thought about calling this “Why Tom Toles will never be hiring by the current mismanagement at Time magazine,” but that would be cruel.

If you need to know why we need government (G) spending, consider that there is no investment (I), and the plight of the consumer is summarized here: The rest is basic algebra.

I hesitated to post this one, but since Charlie Stross agrees about the implications, the rest of the world better hope we’re wrong:

Though the claim made may not be true, the sentiment seems real: Update: Brad DeLong apparently beat me to publishing this one by about 40 minutes. I blame my trying to use a Mac, but it’s nice to know neither of us got it from the WaPo website, where it was up yesterday.

One of the few reasons that the Washington Post should still be in business: Previous editions indicated and linked here.

Continuing a series from Marginal Utility, link here: