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I haven’t been wrong yet, a-hole.

conky : Partisan economics

This gives voice to my recent concern, i.e. that I do not trust anyone no matter how credentialed to provide sound, scientific economic analysis. I don’t have really any greater formal training in the hard sciences than I do in econ, so why is it so much harder to separate out the junk?

Today on television game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” the question was asked: which Nobel prize had never been awarded to a woman? I had never thought about it before I heard the question, but the answer was immediately apparent before the options were offered.

Economics has always been the social science of agenda-driving and dick-swinging. (Which is probably why I got my degree in it.) Don’t look for a hard scientific validation to your policy preferences, look to history and to common sense. (Common sense: if you give people money in the form of tax cuts, they won’t spend it. If you need things to get bought, the government needs to do it right now.)

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Market research fail.

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That eggnog was delicious.

This was shot before Christmas ‘07, but a variety of delightful mishaps kept it from being posted to the Internets until a little while ago. You can’t tell by the finished product, but I was the only performer in this video whose character’s name was not their actual name. (I think I was filling in for someone.)

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MIAMI DOLPHINS NUMBER ONE

Miami has the Dolphins
The Greatest Football Team
We take the ball from goal to goal
Like no one’s ever seen
We’re in the air, we’re on the ground
We’re always in control
And when you say Miami
You’re talking Super Bowl

‘Cause we’re the…

Miami Dolphins,
Miami Dolphins,
Miami Dolphins Number One.
Yes we’re the…
Miami Dolphins,
Miami Dolphins,
Miami Dolphins Number One

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That’s not roast beef.

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I worked here the summer between high school and college, for $4.25 an hour. It was a terrible job, I hated it, and I never worked at any kind of restaurant ever again.

There aren’t many stories about this place, just disjointed little memories. I still don’t understand how those old people thought they were going to order from the drive thru without rolling their window down.

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Internet Rule #1: You don’t fuck with Clay Aiken.

Most of my free time has been spent building howRDUdoin?, which is why I haven’t had so many lols for you here, I’m sorry.

This has been an incredible education for me, I feel like I’ve unlocked the secrets of the Internet, which will make me more popular and a hit at parties. (Do you need more traffic quickly? Start blogging the full names of murder victims and suspected murderers.)

But today we uncovered a bit of a surprise: if you mention Clay Aiken in a negative light, even in passing, even in a no big deal kind of way, CRAZY PEOPLE WILL SUDDENLY APPEAR. Like, bona fide fucking crazy people! Ben wrote a post today talking about some Raleigh folks on some TV show, and he compared that to the time Clay Aiken was on a TV show, and man! Shit got crazy, quick!

I was really curious about where these people came from, because this was clearly an Internet lesson for me. And usually when strange people show up on your blog, it’s because you were linked from another blog or message board or something, except that didn’t happen this time. So I cracked open the Google Analytics, and found a whole lot of people were coming to that page directly, with no referer. And more people were coming referred by a webmail client. So it seems that one of these fucking crazy people found this one post, probably because they have a Google Alert rigged to a siren or something, and then sent it to all his crazy friends, using email or IM or something. They probably eschew message boards, because people like me would go and laugh at them. So they’re left to live in the darkness, vigilant but hidden, like boring ninjas.

If they were invisible, they would defend Clay on every blog.

(They’re on their way, aren’t they?)

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Get it into your head, his real name is Ned.

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For Diana.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

My fiancee reminded me that today is a day for a blog list. Here’s one:

• The health and safety of my little brother, and his lovely wife
• My incredible fiancee, and my new family
• My kittehs, even the pissy one
• The fact that I have one of the seven remaining media jobs in New York
• My friends, who are brilliant and hilarious and always up for a caper
• Barack Obama, obvs
• All of the ridiculous physical comfort I’ve been blessed with (I have a television mounted to the wall at the foot of my bed, come on!)
• The fact that my favorite station didn’t change in the Sirius/XM merger
• Google Reader
• My iPhone, which keeps me surprisingly stable
• My future mother-in-law just did my laundry
• Driving in Manhattan, which is fun
• The Chinese place and the Dominican place
• Homemade macaroni and cheese
• I have evaded capture by local law enforcement for another year
• I’m getting married in like eight months

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This video made me much happier than it should have.

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