Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead

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  • What’s the hortatory subjunctive of “shut the fuck up”?

    I was no fan of Slick Willy, and found his “depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is” to be a real low in the annals of democratic (small ‘d’) accountability. But this is probably just as bad.

  • Planet of the Apes

    So was surfing this morning and caught the middle part of the first “Planet of the Apes” movie. I am sure that others have picked up on this (not that it’s particularly subtle), but I love the idea that Chuck Heston is on the side of science, with the apes subjugating science to religion (with…

  • Economist on economics of immigration reform

    Neat little piece in the June 2nd “economics focus” feature, entitled “Guests v gatecrashers“. Bottom line: illegal immigration might cost native-born residents some 0.07% of GDP. But that net cost, if it exists at all, is clearly less than the price of keeping illegal workers out. Since 2001 Congress has more than doubled the amount…

  • prewar intel proved prescient

    Too bad they ignored it.

  • the downside of globalization

    OK, I know that globalization has some very real negative consequences on some people who can ill-afford to suffer them. But let me just point out another downside of globalization: all that damn flopping in the NBA. Anyone who watched last year’s World Cup soccer match will recognize Manu Ginobili’s technique, for example — BAM,…

  • Beneath the Underdog

    Finished it a week or so ago. Feh. Didn’t really get what people see in it. That it’s nonlinear and therefore somehow jazzy? I thought it was self-indulgent crap. I need to look up some info (maybe read a real biography of Mingus) to find out when it was written. It wouldn’t surprise if it…

  • Brrr ……

    More chill in East-West relations (funny sounding term, huh?) as Putin says that Russia will put a moratorium on implementing the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty. The Economist says it won’t quite use the term “new Cold War”, but notes the CFE withdrawal and a slip of the tongue by Condi Rice, in which…

  • Ségo v. Sarko

    Not terribly surprising. It was definitely the safest bet, though of course “safe” is not a word one generally uses in connection with predicting French election outcomes. The FT characterizes this as a return to the classic Left-Right confrontation, which is hard to disagree with. But my sense is that things are more concentrated around…

  • Right On, Francis

    The EU’s attempt to transcend sovereignty and traditional power politics by establishing a transnational rule of law is much more in line with a “post-historical” world than the Americans’ continuing belief in God, national sovereignty, and their military. So saith Francis Fukuyama. HT: Sully.

  • Europe: Successes and Limitations

    Moravcsik has a piece in Newsweek International which I have only skimmed but which, on that basis, I largely agree with. The Europe of 2007 reflects a truly remarkable set of achievements which my Tata Madeleine (nee 1909) would never have considered possible. Let’s not let its pathologies, complexities, etc. obscure this from view. Drezner…