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Stop measuring happiness!

escabeche — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:44:40 -0800

Happyism: The Creepy New Economics of Pleasure. Economist Dierdre McCloskey, in the New Republic, digs into the mathematical underpinnings of the scientific study of happiness. Executive summary: she doesn't like what she finds.

We are all a bunch of Winnie the Poohs

vidur — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:00:24 -0800

Jed Perl reviews "Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall"

The Talented Mr. Ripley + Six Degrees of Separation + Clark Rockefeller ...

ericb — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:18:20 -0800

"Former Harvard student Adam Wheeler was indicted [yesterday] on multiple counts of identity fraud and larceny. According to the Boston Globe, Wheeler allegedly built a 'fraudulent life history that led to his admission to Harvard, and for using forged academic materials from Harvard when he applied for the prestigious Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships.'"* In his transfer student application to Harvard "...Wheeler claimed he got a perfect score on the SAT, straight A's at prestigious prep school Phillips Academy Andover and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...In reality, he had never attended either school..."* He has plead not guilty to the charges. Wheeler had been a student at Bowdoin College in Maine from 2005-07, but was suspended for academic dishonesty. After that event he carefully crafted a life-story that included forged test scores, realistic-looking secondary-school and college transcripts and recommendations in order to fake his way, as a transfer student, into Harvard. He "paid attention to small details, according to an official in the prosecutors' office. Harvard personnel have reported his recommendations and transcripts arrived on the appropriate letterhead from the other schools." He also plagiarized the work of others to score $45,000 in financial aid. Having been booted from Harvard last fall, he recently applied to Yale and Brown "allegedly used false information."

Cure for pain

Kattullus — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:10:25 -0800

In December 2003, Brent Cambron gave himself his first injection of morphine. Save for the fact that he was sticking the needle into his own skin, the motion was familiar--almost rote. Over the course of the previous 17 months, as an anesthesia resident at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambron had given hundreds of injections.

- Going Under by Jason Zengerle of The New Republic [print version] is heartbreaking article about the high rates of drug addiction among anesthesiologists. It tells the story of Brent Cambron and his spiral into addiction. His live was also sensitively chronicled in The Boston Globe by Keith O'Brien in Something, anything to stop the pain [print version]. Don't pass up on reading the comments to Zengerle's article, the first few of which are by medical doctors. Here's the Boston Globe story about Dr. Cambron's death and his obituary from the Tulsa World.

Kos-troversy

empath — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:26:11 -0800

The Plank started it, using a NY Times piece on MyDD.com founder Jerome Armstrong's recent settlement with the SEC to impune Daily Kos's integrety with accusations of graft and extortion, revealing a secret liberal-blog mailing list. Kos counterattacks. TNR expands their assault. David Brooks piles on. Kos's allies respond. TNR retracts (somewhat), and brings up another skeleton in Jerome's closet. Finally, the adults weigh in.

Pakistan for Bush

four panels — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:13:34 -0800

"It would be best if the arrest or killing of [Osama bin Laden] were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July." During the first three days of the Democratic National Convention, the Bush administration offers The July Surprise.

Bush-hating meme

palancik — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:42:14 -0800

The New Republic . . . is one of multiple sources featuring variations on Bush-hating in recent weeks. What's up with the sudden currency of the phrase?

US Now Relying on Mercenaries in Afghanistan

Coop — Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:37:01 -0800

Can Mercenaries Protect Hamid Karzai? The US govt is hiring private mercenaries to do it's dirty work overseas. In short, by hiring private military contractors such as DynCorp, the U.S. government has found an effective way to conduct foreign policy by proxy and in secret. These proxies cannot be monitored, are effectively immune from all criminal sanctions, and are dangerously hard to control since they answer to corporate bosses, not military brass. (easy registration required)

The Christian Right and Israel

cell divide — Wed, 15 May 2002 18:00:16 -0800

The Christian Right and Israel is the topic of this interesting article from the editor of The New Republic, who sees the Christian conservatives' interest in Israel as less than persuasive, as it relies on Biblical legitimacy and not Democratic legitimacy. From the article: "for Christian conservatives like Armey and Parshall, Israel's interests cannot be defined pragmatically, because Israel's primary function is to clarify a larger worldview. Whether or not most evangelicals truly believe Israel's wars will usher in the Messianic Age, they are theologically conditioned to see its struggle as Manichaean".

Rastafari — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 16:58:23 -0800

New World Order? As Israel and India form a new friendship, it seems that Israel's arch enemy, Arafat, is forming alliance with China, India's arch enemy. Apologizes for linking to DrudgeReport for the Arafat story, but that's all I could find.

RylandDotNet — Sun, 27 May 2001 20:08:03 -0800

So far, G-Dubya's first 100 or so days in office have been a media party. (What happened to all that liberal media bias Rush Limbaugh was talking about, anyway?) Is it time for the hangover? Reporters are starting to realize that a photo-op at alternative fuels production facilities can't hide the fact that he's paying off his energy business cronies, that different skin colors and genders among Appeals Court nominees doesn't necessarily equal "diversity", and that Bush is generally not walking the walk for all his "compassionate Conservative" talk.