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...Creative capitalism isn't some big new economic theory. And it isn't a knock on capitalism itself. It is a way to answer a vital question: How can we most effectively spread the benefits of capitalism and the huge improvements in quality of life it can provide to people who have been left...
...mean to be a total tool when I say: Knock it off already with this talk of a "movement." That's what Zuckerberg called Facebook throughout his hour-long presentation yesterday: A movement. As in, "Last year at F8, everyone here together at the San Francisco Design Center started a movement...
...Gerold Yonas, the chief scientist for SDI, was equally emphatic. ''The idea that we are going to protect all the people somehow with a perfect defense'' is the ''wrong approach.'' Instead, he argued, the goal is to make the Kremlin unsure that it could launch a strike that would knock out America's capacity to retaliate. The immediate goal of SDI, Perle agreed, is ''not the defense of the nation as a whole, not of every city and person in it, but the defense of America's capacity to retaliate.'' Thus he saw a more realistic mission for a space...
Comedy, good comedy, is not just unsafe; it's uncontrollable--satire most of all. Satire takes a real position and exaggerates it to the point of absurdity. By nature, it is, if it is any good, subject to interpretation. The knock on the New Yorker cover was like the old critique of Archie Bunker: that some idiot bigot somewhere might take it literally and enjoy...
...Meanwhile, political experts assured us that it was too early in the election cycle for much of this to matter. The public polls have been rather steady over the last month, with Obama maintaining a small, if slowly growing lead over McCain, which is far below the knock-out advantage that many had predicted in such a Democratic friendly cycle. Both campaigns long ago admitted that this campaign would come down to the economy, a growing problem for which neither candidate is offering many short-term fixes. Pew pollsters re-released data that showed that about twice as many Americans...