Johnnie (‘04) here: can confirm he was an awesome human, and the players he coached were good guys, too. Shame Blake Elliott broke his leg in training camp.

I enjoy these posts, because people buzz click and whirr as though they’re hosts trying to grasp their self-consciousness.

Another data point that K-PhD should be free.

I know it’s petty, but part of my hate for him is reserved for people thinking he’s dapper/handsome/well-dressed. He’s dressed like an 8th grade debater’s idea of what men’s fashion is and only has access to his dad’s closet and its ill-fitting clothes. Christ.

You’re going to get a lot of pushback on this article, though it’s spot on. Funny how self-proclaimed welfare-staters suddenly find True Religion when it’s the other party expanding the deficit.

Yes, precisely so! Fiscal policy produces and distributes scarcity, and getting over *that* requires more than a “one weird trick” approach to social relations

What is money and/or currency

When I was writing my dissertation more than a few years ago, I stumbled onto this modern money stuff. It was a glimmer of hope that perhaps, post-GFC, we might have a sane fiscal policy. Of course we know how that went.

You’re fighting the good fight here. It’s so frustrating that people default to a freshman-seminar-level-John Stuart Mill approach to classical liberalism for a cheap ethical high ground in the clouds of abstraction.

Can’t let you do that, Starfox!

Naked Capitalism has a brilliant multi-part series from a transportation analyst on why Uber can’t seem to be profitable. Part 1: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver-part-one-understanding-ubers-bleak-operating-economics.html

First, thanks for all your reporting on this issue!

Well played, Mauer.

My favorite reaction to these articles you post are the armchair economists who have decided that they’ve settled decades of ambiguity about what impact, if any, the minwage has. Then they start wringing their hands about automation (which is continuing apace justfinethankyou), or firing people or small businesses…

This is just a quick note: you have no business calling yourself a leftist if you’re defending the boss. Jesus.

have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

I can almost see my house from there. But this is interesting because it’s an old picture of Phoenix. Now where that old hotel/radio tower is, there’s a massively built up downtown campus for ASU, including the j-school and law school. This brings in huge condo developers (see Portland on the Park), but it’s a mixed…

But really this whole album is amazing:

This was a phenomenal essay; thank you for writing it. I use this as a case study (I teach philosophy, coincidentally, at one of those didn’t-get-into-the-flagship regional comps), when talking about modes of justice. When they first get the overview, the loudest voices are white and male, and all piss and vinegar.

My favorite episode: