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In Defense of the Self-Pitying Wealthy Poor
In response to this recent item, plus this and similar previous posts, two readers empathize, sort of, with the put-upon University of Chicago law professor.First, from a reader an an east coast big...
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Software Week #2b: Scrivener for Windows
You know how time takes on a different character -- it stretches out, or slows down -- as you travel near the speed of light? (It must be true, since NPR reported on it again last week.) It's kind of...
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Now, More Criticism of the Self-Pitying Wealthy Poor
Yesterday I posted some comments in defense of the "Whiny Law Professor" -- and similar families at the top of the US income distribution who find it hard to make ends meet. Now, for the other side of...
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See the World
We'll get back to the whiny wealthy poor in a moment. For now, let's consider a different kind of want -- the lack of experience in the wide world that, according to a reader message I quoted here...
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Think Nobody in the White House Knows How to Explain Economic Policy?
That's what I have often feared. Here's an exception. Austan Goolsbee, new head of the Council of Economic Advisers, with a visual aid to explain the difference between the Republican and Democratic...
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Self-Pitying Wealthy Poor: The International Perspective!
This is interesting: a site that lets you enter your annual income and then see where you stand among the world's six billion people. True, it doesn't appear to be an absolutely precise measurement...
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WIF Giveth, and WIF Taketh Away (Chalabi Dept)
Much of the Atlantic's staff has been on-scene at the Washington Ideas Forum for the past two days, and I think that many of the interviews, panels, symposia etc have been worthwhile. You can judge for...
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Placeholder on RMB Legislation (Short Version: It's No Smoot-Hawley)
The House's vote on Wednesday to impose sanctions on China unless it let the value of its currency rise is important, but I don't have time to get into it at the moment. Placeholders for now: I do not...
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The Opposite of Self-Pity: Neil Alan Smith
A reader in Dallas sent this note: TPM this morning led me to this obituary of a man who is near the other end of the wealth bell curve from the University of Chicago Prof recently discussed at length....
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Self-Pitying Wealthy Poor: The Fancy-School Factor
The context, of course, is the University of Chicago law school professor who feels hard pressed near the top of the income distribution. (Whole series here; kick-off installment here.)When the whiny...
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In Re-Praise of 'West Coast Live'
Four years ago, I wrote about how much I enjoyed Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live, described thus: The show is like Prairie Home Companion in the sense that live music, and the host's personality, are...
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The All-American Virtue of Self-Pity
Why am I running so many items on this theme? I don't actually care* about the person who will always be known as the "whiny law professor" from the University of Chicago. (Sadly, that name works...
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The Case Against Expatriation: Not Cutting the Mustard
In items here and with previous links, I argued that about the best thing young Americans could do for themselves and their country is to spend serious time in other parts of the world.A reader who...
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John Strassburger
Two years ago I mentioned several times the difference John Strassburger had made in my family's life. Strassburger (left) was then the president of Ursinus College, a small liberal arts school in...
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SECDEF: Wars 'Remain An Abstraction' for Most Americans
I've mentioned several times (for instance, here) impressive speeches by the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, about weapons, strategy, and national interest. I'm not blanket endorsing everything...
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Of Course, I Was Going to Vote for Christine O'Donnell Before This
If I lived in Delaware. And I was seized by a spirit of Theater of the Absurd. And I thought having her in the Senate might make CSPAN live coverage more fun. And if I hadn't read via Chris Good the...
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The Beauty Part of the O'Donnell "Chinese Plot" Remark
How did I miss this? In mentioning, earlier this afternoon, that Christine O'Donnell had claimed in 2006 to have secret-document proof of China's master plan to conquer America, I left out the context....
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Wealthy Whiners: The Institutional Perspective
Fair warning: this is not a "serious" addition to consideration of the "whiny law professor" syndrome. But I found it droll to compare two notes about the specific institutional background of the...
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On Existential Threats: It's Not Just Israel
In an item today, Jeffrey Goldberg quotes a Commentary article by an Israeli author about why Iran's mere possession of nuclear weapons would fundamentally change Israel's conditions of existence....
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"Sam Zell is Killing Papers!"
One of the people I interviewed for the "How to Save the News" article I published a few months ago was a person I'd known in his days as a newspaper reporter, who works for a major technology company....
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