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I appreciate an unlikely newspaper article (or, okay, blog post I guess) that will make me laugh out loud in the morning when the thought of going to work hurts. The paragraph that did it:
Positive psychology types like to say that savoring the moment is a “crucial happiness skill,” and that’s what Schmidt does next: [...]

This photo from 2003 showed up as my random gallery image, and I thought I’d highlight it. Some feelings are eternal.

Related: this feature on who would want to govern our crazy Neverland of a state is pretty entertaining. Here’s an Arnold anecdote:
Even in the most desperate circumstances, when you might expect the [Democrats and Republicans] [...]

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Well, that was something.
Some dude on the train this morning was doing a little cheer, “It is the O, it is the B, it is the A…” Strangers were greeting each other in the station, “It’s a new day, brother.” “A new day!” On my elevator ride up to the office, usually a sedate [...]

Anyone else feel a little like it’s Christmas Eve?
Casting my vote for Obama (a week or so ago, by absentee ballot) felt wonderful, but voting No on Proposition 8 in California felt even better, since thanks to the Electoral College my vote for president has never, ever counted. But Proposition 8, which would amend the [...]

William F. Buckley’s kid is voting Obama.

This is a great article from the New Yorker about Obama’s difficulty appealing to the white working class. It also makes me very, very grateful for the life I get to lead.

Truckloads of bailout-related commentary are available at other, much better blogs near you (my crush on heartthrob Krugman continues), which are actually becoming moderately interesting as I figure out what things like “deleveraging” mean. But all facts of the case aside (don’t you love arguments that begin that way), when the Bush administration comes at [...]

This is cool. More policy questions should be answered with web-widgets.

Wow, how ’bout that economy, huh? All the chaos this week has really given me a new perspective on things, so I’m going to do as certain of my extended family always suspected I would when I became older and wiser and paid more taxes: toss my allegiance to the Republican Party, that bastion of [...]

We read Paul Krugman’s book Peddling Prosperity in the macroeconomics class I took in college, and I remember the professor—himself a moderate conservative—saying Krugman wasn’t “as liberal as he thought he was.”
Well, maybe the Bush administration was enough to push everyone a little left-er. Regardless, I’m developing kind of a crush.