Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): From a McClatchy blog, on something called the Reverse Bradley Effect: “. . . a new study today says that polls may be UNDERestimating Barack Obama’s support by 3 percent to 4 percent nationally [in] a reversal of the so-called Bradley effect, in which support […]
Archive | October 13, 2008
After Conceit: Recovering from the Credit Crunch
Wealth is created through an economic sleight of hand. All the money in circulation is a promise, not only of the value already in existence, but of the future value that people have promised to create. When you pay for groceries with a credit card, you are making such a promise. You are declaring that, […]
JonBenet, pt. 2: vile bigotry and voodoo stupidity
by Michael Tracey Several incidents in particular focused my attention not on the murder but on how we seemed to be dealing with it as a culture. In March 1997 the CU branch of the Society of Professional Journalists organized a forum on cheque book journalism, particularly as it related to the Ramsey case. The […]






