Metaphor Fail

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Brand new Massachusetts Senator and conservative darling Scott Brown was interviewed on Fox (of course) and asked about the incident in Austin, Texas. His answer was interesting, to say the…

Delawareans Hate Their Jobs

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That is according to a recently released survey called the State of Well-Being (pdf) that has surveyed Americans and presented state-by-state reports on how people in that state view their lives. This is part of a long-term eefort being produced by Gallup to provide some measure of American's health and well-being. And according to this study, Delaware ranks dead last among states for Work Environment, going down from last year's ranking of 38th among the states. Here's a summary of the data:

Late Night Video — Paul Krugman

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This is a lecture that Paul Krugman gave at MIT recently -- The Economic Meltdown: What Have We Learned, if Anything? Krugman tried to explain how we got here AND why it seems so hard to wrap our minds around strong policy to fix it. In many ways, he thinks that we never really learned the lessons of the Great Depression, including that for all of the risk that bankers put us in, the greatest risk may just be a government policy apparatus that will be happier with a political fix rather than a systemic one.