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in on anyone even a killer in the course of his execution but unnecessary pain sometimes happens and if it has to happen to someone it couldn t happen to a more appropriate person that someone like the killer described in this ap article 2 comments wednesday december 20 2006 posted 12 42 am by robert mr rago dissents is it odd that having run an article subtitled wow time magazine really is out of touch with the internet age reproduced from american spectator only yesterday opinion journal today carries an article by the journal s editorial staffer joseph rago proving that wall street s own can at least match time magazine on that particular out of touch front mr rago s effort will doubtlessly attract lots of blogosphere commentary so i will indulge in but a few observations i leave it to the reader to determine if she agrees that mr rago comes dangerously close to ignoring many of the enormous differences among blogs starting with the title of his article which he may or may not have chosen the blog mob i also ask the reader to consider whether the best blogs have any of the characteristics mr rago purports to identify for example does mickey kaus s blog kausfiles ever show serious signs of the mob mentality mr rago conjures please is it true as mr rago insists of even the better reaches of the blogosphere again keeping kausfiles in mind as but one example that every conceivable belief is on the scene but the collective prose by and large is homogeneous a tone of careless informality prevails posts oscillate between the uselessly brief and the uselessly logorrheic complexity and complication are eschewed the humor is cringe making with irony present only in its conspicuous absence arguments are solipsistic writers traffic more in pronouncement than persuasion and if mr rago s criticisms are to be limited to the less well done portions of the blogosphere taking that by and large escape hatch they would amount to the nearly tautological observation that the not well done is not well done on the blogosphere as everywhere yes indeed and it is also true that a man is liked by his friends mr rago but it is with respect to the blogosphere s relationship with the mainstream media that mr rago s errors are most interesting perhaps because he considers no examples at all other than henry james and his arthritis he is certainly correct that the blogosphere draws heavily on direct reporting of the mainstream media but the mainstream media in the past often working in far less than fully competitive environments have developed many ways of distorting the products of their own reporting one need look no further than rathergate to see the valuable role played by the blogosphere in blocking an election distorting gambit practiced by cbs news repeatedly for many years so is mr rago correct that the blogs are not as significant as their self endeared curators would like to think instead they ride along with the msm like remora fish on the bellies of sharks picking at the scraps perhaps that is a question best asked of now minimally employed sharks such as dan rather and mary mapes mr rago apparently considers himself to be a shark my guess is that his own belly is bound to be nipped by lots of his remoras somehow i think he s about to find out how insignificant their bites really are 74 comments sunday december 17 2006 posted 9 14 pm by robert gloria wise boys and girls club what s that this new york times article by elizabeth jensen and lia miller purports to recount what the article calls the short but contentious history of air america many odd characters and twists are recounted in a history where business and politics always mixed and that was the problem critics contend tart recriminations are now reportedly flying but none of those reported recriminations has anything whatsoever to do with the gloria wise boys and girls club indeed the times article make no mention of that organization at all its name is not mentioned not even an allusion to this worthy organization made all of which is more than passing strange because air america has an extensive history and economic relationship with the gloria wise boys and girls club as the new york post summarized six officials of the gloria wise boys and girls club stole 1 2 million from the group money meant for needy kids and seniors a city probe has found investigations commissioner rose gill hearn calls it disgusting the worst case of wrongdoing by a non profit contractor she s seen since taking office thank goodness the thieves will be going to jail for a very long time and paying back every cent and then some well actually that s not quite true in fact nobody is going to jail not even for a single day and the crooks get to keep most of the cash they stole four weren t even charged and after a few brief years the two who were charged can return to nonprofit work to loot again perhaps for that wrist tap thank attorney general eliot spitzer whose office prosecuted the case something is wrong with this picture hearn was right to label the shenanigans disgusting her report said fraud was an accepted way of doing business for these execs rather than reflecting actual events the group s records were made to say whatever suited the executives purposes want details under their direction the group improperly gave 875 000 to left wing air america radio which features comedian al franken while a gloria wise exec maintained a financial stake in it there s plenty more for example the new york city department of investigation has commented doi asked air america to repay the 875 000 to an escrow account controlled by doi thereafter air america repaid only 50 000 to an escrow account that is not controlled by doi doi is pleased that piquant llc the current owner of air america has agreed to doi s request that in lieu of making 50 000 quarterly payments piquant transfer the full 875 000 to the escrow account and lots more but all of that escapes elizabeth jensen and lia miller and apparently nobody at air america cares enough to hurl any recriminations on this topic but then if the ever opportunistic pseudo crusading mr sptizer doesn t care why should the times 2 comments friday december 08 2006 posted 12 43 am by robert some questions regarding herr doktor professor paul von krugman s wages theory what herr doktor professor paul von krugman wrote in his october 6 2006 column the war against wages so what s keeping paychecks down major employers like wal mart have decided that their interests are best served by treating workers as a disposable commodity paid as little as possible and encouraged to leave after a year or two and these employers don t worry that angry workers will respond to their war on wages by forming unions because they know that government officials who are supposed to protect workers rights will do everything they can to come down on the side of the wage cutters what the new york times reports on the front page today after four years in which pay failed to keep pace with price increases wages for most american workers have begun rising significantly faster than inflation the average hourly wage for workers below management level everyone from school bus drivers to stockbrokers rose 2 8 percent from october 2005 to october of this year after being adjusted for inflation according to the bureau of labor statistics only a year ago it was falling by 1 5 percent the fall in unemployment to 4 4 percent and the recent surge in wages however raise the prospect that the job market could be on the brink of another strong run much like the one that lifted incomes in the late 1990s of course wages are just one component of overall compensation which includes a variety of other expensive and valuable benefits wages and paychecks matter more than they should to herr doktor professor and the times generally indeed they are drawn to wage and paycheck arguments like moths to flames there is for example no disclaimer or distinction made between of wages or paychecks and overall compensation in either herr doktor professor s october column or in today s news article on the other hand nobody seems to have a good grasp on what is happening to true worker compensation in the united states including people who focus on overall compensation so although one can go far criticizing herr doktor professor and the times broadly on this count i prefer to ask a far narrower question today if as herr doktor professor says what had been keeping paychecks down was major employers like wal mart having decided that their interests are best served by treating workers as a disposable commodity paid as little as possible and encouraged to leave after a year or two then does the recent rise in paychecks reported today in the times mean that major employers abandoned or softened that approach have those major employers decided since october 6 that their interests are not best served by treating workers as a disposable commodity if so why why now and most importantly of all why does the times news article which takes up plenty of column inches with various analyses of why wages have fluctuated not even mention herr doktor professor s key theoretical insight into the main cause of wage stagnation sheesh you d almost think that the economic reporters at the times don t care a bit about what herr doktor professor has to say on this topic surely that can t be true can it just asking 0 comments wednesday december 06 2006 posted 8 06 am by robert the new york times sinks into a florida swamp even by the low standards of new york times economic reporting david leonhardt s article in today s edition surely reaches a new low in breathlessly announcing the truth is that the official numbers on house prices the last refuge of soothing information about the real estate market on the coasts are deeply misleading in reality homes across much of florida california and the northeast are worth a lot less than they were a year ago unlike mr leonhardt the man without qualities takes no position on what the truth or reality of the current residential real property market may be i have no idea what the real estate market is doing right now and again unlike mr leonhardt i have no idea where to look for that truth and reality other than in those admittedly imperfect statistics reporting actual sales that he finds so unworthy but i do know this auctions of houses of the type described in this article generally produce prices quite a bit lower than what could be obtained if the house were marketed in the usual way that s why the usual way is usual so it is nothing short of idiotic for mr leonhardt and the times to look to such an auction in naples florida for the truth and reality of the housing market in the finding that on average the houses that changed hands at the auction had fallen about 25 percent in value since 2005 here s a hint for mr leonhardt and his handlers at the times pretty much any competent realtor or probate or bankruptcy attorney will tell you that an auctioned house brings in about 25 less than the then current market value of the home although the statistical spread can be wide this effect is not a secret many home buyers look to buy homes from probate sales for example even in the absence of an auction but normal buyers generally don t go to such auctions only speculators and bottom fishers normally go one reason for that is that unlike normal real property sales such auctions allow for no financing or any other contingencies in other words don t even think about making a bid at such an auction and then going to your bank for the appraisal and loan and detailed home inspection at an auction you pretty much just write the check for the full purchase price on your way out the auction house door that kind of thing tends to push prices down and a 25 reduction on usual market prices is a pretty good result in a house auction since the auction described by the times yielded prices about 25 off year ago prices the auction appears to actually suggests that the naples single family home market has not changed much over the last year but mr leonhardt completely misses all of that of course mr leonhardt does not just rely on this one auction for his conclusion that the truth and reality is that home prices are in free fall no no no he also quotes a few realtors who opine that in their local markets the truth and reality is that home prices are in free fall without any supporting data whatsoever and despite government and other statistics to the contrary and despite his reliance on realtor oracles mr leonhardt apparently never asked his realtor contacts what the normal relationship is between the prices of auctioned homes and homes sold in the usual way an enquiry that would have deflated his naples example so economic reporting in the new york times has come to relying on what realtors tell the reporter no support required no follow up questions just like that could the times go any lower 34 comments saturday december 02 2006 posted 3 32 pm by robert is the court planning to excise the religion exception the new york times reports regarding a federal court challenge to some aspects of the president s faith based initiatives judge john c shabaz of federal district court dismissed the lawsuit for lack of standing finding that the officials activities were not sufficiently tied to specific congressional appropriations taxpayers objections to the use of general appropriations could not be a basis for standing he said the president s faith based and community initiative was created through a series of executive orders and not by congress he noted the decision was overturned and the lawsuit reinstated in a 2 to 1 ruling by the united states court of appeals for the seventh circuit in chicago writing for the majority judge richard a posner said the distinction cited by judge shabaz made no difference judge posner said the plaintiffs were entitled to challenge the conferences as propaganda vehicles for religion even if they were neither financed through a specific congressional appropriation nor made grants directly to religious groups as a general matter people do not have standing based solely on their status as taxpayers to challenge the expenditure of federal money the supreme court s precedents have carved out religion cases as an exception to this general rule in its appeal hein v freedom from religion foundation no 06 157 the administration is arguing the exception is a narrow one designed to prevent the specific historic evil of direct legislative subsidization of religious entities a definition that the administration says does not apply to the conferences for the federal courts to permit such a lawsuit its brief asserts would upset the delicate balance of power between the judicial and executive branches and open the courthouse door to anyone with a generalized grievance the administration s position may 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