The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy was trying to prove a point on its blog about the proliferation of medical marijuana dispensaries in California by noting that there are now more of them than there are Starbucks locations in downtown San Francisco. To bolster their point, the agency’s bloggers included this handy Google Maps mashup:
Tuesday Map: The drug czar’s epic fail | FP Passport.
Willing To Pay The Price
Willie Brown, Asomugha’s position coach who is among the greatest defensive backs to ever play pro football, credits Asomugha’s work ethic for his development over the last five seasons.
“He is dedicated, and he’s dedicated to be great. I tell all the defensive backs, they should have Nnamdi’s work habits. He will do anything you ask, and he is willing to pay the price to be great.”
Posted by Eric Musselman at 12:14 PM
Eric Musselman’s Basketball Notebook: Willing to pay the price to be great.
We can say this about what most of us want.
For me I want to be happy. Some people dream of being rich. Some people dream of finding true love. Some people dream of doing great things. Most of these things are within reach, only if YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE!.
This is where all the get rich quick schemes, the ponzi scams, the seduction seminars step in. They try to make you believe that you do not have to pay the price, that you have a way to get things for free.
Repeat after me: THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES!.
And this is what we must do. Before we even start thinking of what is the best path to reach our dreams, we must gather enough resolve to decide that we are willing to pay the price!
Arguing With Your Self — WSJ Edition
From Mark Thoma: Very Funny In the Unintentional Comedy Way
Does Not! Does Too!
The WSJ argues with itself:
The Fed Is Out of Ammunition – WSJ.com
Fed Has More Ammunition After Firing Rate-Cut Bullets – WSJ.com
Economist’s View: Does Not! Does Too!.
The Food Paradox Of Our Time
It is one of the larger paradoxes of our time that the very same food policies that have contributed to overnutrition in the first world are now contributing to undernutrition in the third. But it turns out that too much food can be nearly as big a problem as too little — a lesson we should keep in mind as we set about designing a new approach to food policy.
The Food Issue – An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief – Michael Pollan – NYTimes.com.
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Wow Great Article from Dave Winer ! Is the panic over Detroit real? (Scripting News)
wow, can’t say this enough: We Are All In It Together!
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In online discussions people say we should let the companies fail — they scare me even more, because they don’t understand how much our lives depend on each others. That was clear in New Orleans after Katrina. They couldn’t re-open the restaurants not because there was no demand for the services, there was, but because there was no place for the staff to live and no way to get the supplies they needed. And you can’t bring in the workers to rebuild the city without places for them to eat.
Civilizations take a long time to reboot after a crash, so you must do everything you can to avoid crashing, but this one seems to be willful, we have the means to prevent it, but for some reason we’re too stupid, collectively, to stop it.
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Fact is, we all live in New Orleans and Detroit, and we’re going to learn that in this country, but it’s going to be a very very painful lesson, apparently.
Is the panic over Detroit real? (Scripting News).
Where To Find Girls??? hehehe
Q: What the … your buddy JackO is getting married? And you chose to just drop that on us with absolutely no set-up? I don’t know where along the line of listening to the podcasts, I developed my fake relationship with JackO, but I did. I was psychotically 100 percent sure that we would have a chance meeting where he would be really impressed that I knew who he was, and we would get married. I’m really disappointed. In both him getting married and my life in general.
— Claire, Atlanta
SG: You know how women fall in love with serial killers, write them letters and eventually marry them even though they’re on death row and can’t consummate the marriage? Suddenly, that seems a little less strange.
Q: Is it possible for a heterosexual woman to have a man-crush on a guy? What would you call that? I have a man-crush on you.
— Michelle, Atlanta
SG: OK, what’s going on in Atlanta? Do we need to send some more men with a sense of humor between the ages of 25 and 40 down there? To answer your question, a heterosexual female cannot have a man-crush on a heterosexual male. It’s just a crush. You might rationalize it as a man-crush, but deep down, you want to jump my bones. Of course, you live in Atlanta, so apparently any female fits that category. I think Atlanta is the new San Francisco — just horny, successful, fun-loving women looking for love and questioning their self-esteem on a daily basis. I feel totally comfortable making that generalization after two e-mails.
ESPN Page 2 – Sports Guy’s mailbag, Part 1.
Note To Self Need To Learn How To Write Academic Papers Like Prose!
Back in 1998 I argued that the Bank of Japan needed to find a way to “credibly promise to be irresponsible.” That didn’t go down too well, but it was what sober, careful economic analysis prescribed.
Or as I said in the linked paper,
The whole subject of the liquidity trap has a sort of Alice-through-the-looking-glass quality. Virtues like saving, or a central bank known to be strongly committed to price stability, become vices; to get out of the trap a country must loosen its belt, persuade its citizens to forget about the future, and convince the private sector that the government and central bank aren’t as serious and austere as they seem.
Macro policy in a liquidity trap (wonkish) – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com.
Who Would Have Thought?(Arnold the Terminator Edition)
Republicans Dive Deeper into Fantasy
If there is a prominent reality-based Republican officeholder, his name is Arnold Schwarenegger. Paul Krugman has evidence that there is no prominent reality-based Republican officeholder:
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong: Republicans Dive Deeper into Fantasy.
ESPN – Denver vs. Boston – Box Score – November 14, 2008
I liked that rondo had a steal for every assists, though they lost, to an increasingly looking good denver team.
Rajon Rondo, PG 30 1-8 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 7 7 0 1 3 2
ESPN – Denver vs. Boston – Box Score – November 14, 2008.
Proper Framing Of The HealthCare Debate!
“Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care,” Mr. Baucus said. “Americans cannot wait any longer.” Far from being a distraction from efforts to revive the economy, he said, “health reform is an essential part of restoring America’s economy and maintaining our competitiveness.”
Senator Takes Initiative on Health Care – NYTimes.com.