January, 2021 archive
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
The Bangor Daily News reports on a Maine Redditor who invested in Game Stop:
Via Atrios, David Dayen has more.
Aside:
Frankly, a strong case can be made that short-selling, basically betting against a company’s success, should be banned.
Chronicling Covidiocy 0
Gene Collier tells the “The Curious Case of the Skunk in the Moonlight.”
(Re)define Your Terms 0
PoliticalProf notes a trend (emphasis added):
Follow the link for his suggestions.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Elizabeth Dye marvels at the Republican Party’s sudden conclusion that Executive Orders are bad. An excerpt:
And if memory serves, there was a time when it was perfectly acceptable for the White House to freeze the defense allocation to an Eastern European ally whose leader wouldn’t knuckle under pressure to announce an investigation of a presidential candidate.
But those days are over.
Rand Gestures 0
Warning: Short commercial at the 6:30 mark.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel points out that
Republicans say they don’t like “cancel culture.”
In truth, they like it just fine when they’re the ones doing the canceling.
Follow the link for their evidence.
A Pillow of the Community 0
Honest to Betsy (Pete’s on vacation this week), you can’t make this stuff up.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
The drum beat goes on.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Fly the fiendly skies, with politeness.
