Random shots around the web:
- Jack Marshall points out that memorial events for the mass shooting in Newton, Connecticut last year are ignoring one of the victims.
- Blonde Justice says she does, but doesn’t present any evidence.
- Deborah Montesano tries to spin the government’s $11.8 billion dollar loss from owning GM, using numbers that the Center for Automotive Research appears to have generated by assuming that a whopping 90% of the auto industry would have vanished without a federal bailout.
- Virginia Postrel writes an article about the largely uncontroversial notion that national income and productivity statistics do not fully capture improvements in quality and variety of consumer goods, using television programming as an example; some Bloomberg editor sandbags her by giving it a stupid headline; Stephen Colbert seizes it as an opportunity for satire that completely misses the actual point; a ton of clueless douchebags leave comments on the original piece; and Virginia Postrel gets the Colbert bump anyway because, as she reports on her Facebook page (might not be visible if you’re not a friend), sales of her new book grew faster after being mocked on Colbert than they did after a positive review in The New York Times Book Review.
- It’s Friday the 13th, and Maggie McNeill has posted her roundup of pro-sex-worker-rights posts. I’m already seeing a bit of a visitor spike from the link to mine.
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