Bob Reich at the Talking Points Memo Cafe rounds up the five basic arguments for reconciliation and concludes: Do it now and do it fast.
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Why Apple’s iPad Upside Isn’t Priced in Yet
Jason Schwartz at Seeking Alpha returns to his iPad enthusiasms – again. Nut graf:
So what is the opening weekend of iPad sales going to be like? Before we answer that question let me tell you what the iPad really is. It’s the first device ever built to use the internet they way it was meant to be used. It’s like taking the top off of your sports car for the first time and being able to enjoy the majestic mountain vistas of a drive through the canyon. Until now, we’ve been squinting out the back window of Grandma’s 1987 minivan (the laptop). The mobile internet is ready for it’s own device. This is it.
How Paul Krugman found politics
A fascinating New Yorker profile by Larissa MacFarquhar.
Economist: If Only Obama Had Done Things He’s Actually Done, Things Might Be Different
Matthew Yglesias notes that The Economist is guilty of execrable reporting of late.
Economist: If Only Obama Had Done Things He’s Actually Done, Things Might Be Different
Road to Recovery?
The president’s political folks have just made a video of the chart posted here 12 days ago.
Turf War at the New York Times: Who Will Control the iPad?
I really hope this Gawker/Valleywag writer is misinformed. If not, it appears the Times may still be clueless about digital media.
Hot Air
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
Nate Silver of 538.com makes the succinct polling case for passing health care reform. (And thank you Kris Kristofferson [and Janis Joplin] for one of the great rock and roll lines of all time.)
Disney chief hails potential of iPad
And Steve’s presence on Disney’s board has nothing to do with this…. But, then again, I trust Iger’s judgment so much more than I did Eisner’s.
Colin Powell Changes His Tune
Classmate and friend Mo Hanan writes in the Huffington Post of his encounter with Colin Powell in Harvard Yard at our 25th reunion in 1993.
“Attitudes and circumstances have changed,” Powell said [last week]. “It’s been a whole generation” since the [don’t-ask-don’t-tell] legislation was adopted, and there is increased “acceptance of gays and lesbians in society,” he said. “Society is always reflected in the military. It’s where we get our soldiers from.”
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