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12 Uses for Takeout Containers

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on April 9, 2013

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Needed: Clever Economists to Study Benefits of Marrying Early

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on April 4, 2013

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Which is better, getting married early or getting married late? Beats me. My mother got married at 21 and everything turned out pretty well. I got married at 32, and that turned out pretty well too. So I have no nifty anecdotal data to share on this. But how about some nifty statistical data instead? Dylan Matthews throws out a caution:

First, some throat-clearing. None of the data we have on marriage are definitively causal. That’s a good thing. To have rock-solid evidence that marriage causes anything, we’d need to randomly require some people to marry at one age and others to marry at another age and then compare the results (and even that study design would have plenty of problems). Human Subjects Committees generally consider such studies unethical and don’t let them happen.

This is just begging for one of those clever natural experiments so beloved of economists these days. I’m not clever enough to think of one, but somewhere there has to be something. Like, say, a huge natural disaster somewhere that delayed lots of marriages by a year while everyone was busy rebuilding their towns, while two counties away everyone got married at the usual rate. Or a law that lowered the marriage age in one place but not in a similar state a few hundred miles away. There’s gotta be something like that around, doesn’t there? Where’s freakonomics when you need it?

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Photo tour: healing the planet through agriculture

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on April 1, 2013

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Good Loans, Bad Loans

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on March 12, 2013

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Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley company that builds expensive, sporty electric cars, plans to pay back its government loans five years early. Steve Benen comments:

The political part kicks in, however, when we look back at the 2012 presidential election. I read the transcript of just about every speech and interview Mitt Romney did last year, and I seem to recall the Republican condemning Obama’s loan to Tesla all the time. In the final months of the race, it was a standard line of attack: the president was recklessly using our money, Romney said, to “pick losers.” Obama was so irresponsible, he even invested in Tesla Motors.

Romney was so fond of the criticism, he even brought it up during one of the debates. Paul Ryan joined in on the fun, condemning Tesla’s loan on the stump as well. I’m curious, given these new developments, whether the GOP still considers the administration’s loan an outrageous abuse worthy of public scorn.

Wait a second. Steve read the transcript of every single speech and interview Mitt Romney gave last year? Holy cats. I’m not sure whether to be impressed or appalled.

But on to the question of government loans. In my ongoing efforts to spend at least 5 percent of each week not being a partisan hack, I’ll defend Romney here. Sort of. The truth is that in most cases, the fact that a loan does or doesn’t get paid off probably isn’t a good measure of whether it was a good idea. To figure that out, you need to assess the evidence at the time the loan was made, not just label every performing loan as a good idea and every nonperforming one as a bad idea.

My rough take, for example, is that the Tesla loan was probably a poor use of taxpayer money. Tesla isn’t a company likely to make any important breakthroughs. It’s a company whose business plan relies on making money by selling really expensive cars to rich people. Why should U.S. taxpayers subsidize that?

Conversely—and here’s where this week’s 5 percent ends—Solyndra was probably a good use of taxpayer money. In the end it didn’t pay off, but it had a reasonable chance of producing an important breakthrough. That’s the kind of thing taxpayers should be willing to take a gamble on. If a quarter of the gambles fail, chances are you’re still ahead of the game.

So there you have it: a good loan that was probably a bad idea and a bad loan that was probably a good idea. Life is complicated.

However, I would still like to own a Tesla. Are there any Obama giveaway programs to heavily subsidize electric car purchases for friendly bloggers? There must be. Rush Limbaugh talks about them all the time. So where’s my loot?

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GOP Senators Introduce Pointless Drone Bill

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on March 8, 2013

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Not wanting to take Attorney General Eric Holder’s word for it that the US government won’t be sending deadly flying robots to kill its own citizens on American soil, Senators Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have introduced a bill that would “prohibit drone killings of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they do not represent an imminent threat.”

The bill all but disarms the US government, leaving it with few options for lethal force against citizens other than guns, tanks, helicopters, snipers, paramilitary squads, bombs, tasers and blunt force.

Unless you’re not in the United States, or you’re an “imminent threat.” In that case, the government can drone away.

This post has been edited to clarify that Holder was referring to domestic use of lethal drones.

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Republican Senator Filibusters Obama’s CIA Nominee Over Drones

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on March 6, 2013

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UPDATE: Senator Paul ended his filibuster after midnight on Thursday after nearly 13 hours. As Paul ended his filibuster, he said “I would go for another 12 hours to try to break Strom Thurmond’s record, but I’ve discovered that there are some limits to filibustering and I’m going to have to go take care of one of those in a few minutes here.” In order to hold the Senate floor, Paul was not permitted to even sit down, let alone leave to go to the bathroom.

On Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) engaged in a marathon filibuster of John Brennan, Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, protesting the administration’s policy on the use of drones in lethal operations. Paul began speaking at noon and was still filibustering six hours later.

“I will speak until I can no longer speak,” Paul said. “I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.” Paul also criticized the administration’s rationale for targeting American terror suspects overseas, as laid out in a recently leaked white paper.

Paul has been pressing the Obama administration for weeks to answer if it believes the president has the authority to order a drone strike on American soil. On Tuesday, Paul received a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder stating that, in certain “extraordinary circumstances,” such as the attack on Pearl Harbor or the 9/11 attacks, military force could be used domestically. Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Jon Cornyn (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) joined Paul’s filibuster, although Wyden reiterated his intention to vote for Brennan’s confirmation. The administration recently agreed to allow senators on the intelligence committee access to the legal memos justifying the use of lethal force against American terror suspects.

“That Americans could be killed in a café in San Francisco, or in a restaurant in Houston, or at their home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is an abomination,” Paul said. “It is something that should not and can not be tolerated in our country…Has America the beautiful become Alice’s Wonderland?” Paul also criticized the use of signature strikes—lethal operations targeted at anonymous individuals abroad who are believed to be terrorists based on a “pattern of behavior.”

During a Senate judiciary committee hearing held earlier Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked Holder whether he believed that it would be constitutional for the president to order a drone strike on an American citizen suspected of terrorism in the United States who was “sitting quietly at a café.” After a lengthy back and forth, during which Holder said that he did not think it would be “appropriate” to use lethal force in such a circumstance, and Cruz pressed him on whether that meant “unconstitutional,” Holder acknowledged that he did not think it would be constitutional. “Translate my ‘appropriate’ to ‘no,'” Holder said. “No.” Holder said he didn’t believe the letter he had sent to Paul was inconsistent with that answer.

Later on during the oversight hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asked Holder if it would be constitutional for the US military to fire on a hijacked civilian plane that was aimed at the White House. Holder said yes. “When we say Congress gave every administration the authorization to use military force against Al Qaeda, we didn’t exempt the homeland, did we?” Graham asked.

“No I don’t think we did,” Holder said. “In the letter that I sent to Sen. Paul, that’s one of the reasons I mentioned September the 11th,” Holder said, referring to an order given by then-Vice President Dick Cheney to shoot down passenger planes that were reportedly headed for the Capitol. The order was never carried out because it was received too late.

“What I worry about are the people who say America is a battlefield,” Paul said during his filibuster. “They’re saying they want the laws of war to apply here.”

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New York subway riders swipe back at fare hikes

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on March 5, 2013

New York subway riders swipe back at fare hikes

By Susie Cagle

Today, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority boosted subway and bus fares by another quarter, making it $2.50 per ride in the Big Apple (which is about equivalent to four actual apples).

In response to the hikes, some citizens are taking matters and MetroCards into their own hands with a “Swipe Back!” campaign. It’s simple enough: 18 minutes after you use your unlimited card (which now costs $30 per week or $112 per month), you can swipe someone else in for a ride. Says Swipe Back!: “Since you’re giving the swipe away, not selling it, this is perfectly legal.”

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A less legal form of swiping back against fare hikes.

The MTA tells Gothamist that fares are up to compensate for “costs for employee healthcare, pension contributions, mandatory paratransit service, energy and other costs out of our control.” No mention of a shit-ton of debt service. Here’s journalist and activist Jesse Myerson to explain how those debts work:

I asked Myerson how a small-scale campaign like Swipe Back! can make a difference.

“It helps out people who can’t afford a too-expensive public transit system. More importantly, though, it hopes to create a united community of riders, which is a crucial prerequisite for engineering the type of mass mobilization that can secure concessions from those in power,” said Myerson. “[Swipe Back!] is therefore a small but important part of the larger strategy to resist transit austerity, which, in turn, is a small but important part of the even larger strategy to liberate public projects of massive social benefit from the extractive clutch of finance capital “

Sarah Goodyear at the Atlantic Cities looks at the Swipe Back! campaign and the history of similar initiatives:

This isn’t the first time the free swipes have been used to raise awareness among the harried riders of the city’s transit system, which carries seven million passengers every day. A group called the People’s Transportation Program offered free rides during a previous round of fare hikes in 2009, with very few people taking notice (except, of course, the lucky ones who benefited directly).

It’s hard not to notice the rising costs of daily needs, though, at least for those of us not lounging in the 1 percent. The No Fare Hikes initiative has a breakdown of ridership and costs throughout the subway system compared to neighborhood incomes. Sure, it’s just a quarter — for now — but those quarters can really add up.

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Why the Internet Loves Lists

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on February 28, 2013

This person love lists so much she had one tattooed on her. Image: Rob and Stephanie Levy

If you want to make something that does well on the internet, you’ll be doing yourself a favor to put it in list form. The internet cannot get enough lists. But why do we love lists so much? Science has some answers, and The Guardian brings them to you, in list form here.

Here are some of the reasons:

Lists take advantage of a limited attention span

There is an increasingly common view that internet use shortens a person’s attention span. While a lot of this is Greenfield-esque paranoia about new technology, evidence suggests our visual attention is attracted to novelty, and on the internet novelty is always only a click away. There is data to suggest that this is how internet use works, and much of the web is dedicated to exploiting this….

You probably won’t remember all the things on a typical list

A lot of lists are lists of 10, or some multiple thereof, given that the majority of humans have grown up using the decimal system. However, short-term memory, or “working memory” as it’s known to psychologists, has an average capacity of 7 (+/-2). This means you can hold an average of 7 “things” in your short term memory…

Popular things can be listed

Lists are very popular, so logically lists about popular things would be more popular again. Bacon, sexy ladies, funny cats and tweets, all of these regularly end up on lists. You may say this point isn’t scientific in any way, but I include it as evidence for the above point. Which means it is scientific in a very tenuous way.

The Guardian has all ten reasons in their story. But other writers have tackled this question, too. NPR’s Linton Weeks took it on in 2009, and, yes, he listed his answers in a ten point list too. Here are some of them:

Lists bring order to chaos. “People are attracted to lists because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information,” says David Wallechinsky, a co-author of the fabulous Book of Lists, first published in 1977 and followed by subsequent editions. “And lists help us in organizing what is otherwise overwhelming.”

Lists can be meaningful. The Steven Spielberg classic Schindler’s List is based on the true story of a German businessman who used a list of names to save more than 1,000 Jews from the concentration camps. It is ranked eighth on the American Film Institute’s 2007 list of 100 top American films of the past 100 years.

Lists relieve stress and focus the mind. “Lists,” sociologist Scott Schaffer told The Oregonian newspaper, “really get to the heart of what it is we need to do to get through another day on this planet.”

The Awl has a list of 127 reasons that we love lists including the following quote:

“To my mind, the difference would be where lists support your quality of life or where they begin to impede your quality of life—where having your list perfected gets in the way of your functioning, or having too many lists. It’s a matter of how you use them. They can give you control in a certain way, but you don’t want them to be the only thing you do to gain control.”

—Dr. Cynthia Green, clinical psychologist and brain health/memory specialist, interview with the author

These lists of why we love lists go on and on. Clearly, we do love them—but too many ways to list all off them.

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Spending Cuts Still (Much) More Popular Than Tax Increases

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on February 21, 2013

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The good news for Democrats in today’s new Pew/USA Today poll is that if Congress and the president fail to reach an agreement on the sequester, 49 percent of the public say they’ll blame Republicans. Only 31 percent say they’ll blame Obama. He’s obviously winning the PR battle here.

But not all the news is so cheery. In a separate question, 70 percent said it was “essential” to pass major legislation this year to reduce the budget deficit. What’s worse, there was very little support for doing this primarily through tax increases. A whopping 73 percent of the public want to address the deficit either entirely or mostly via spending cuts. Only 19 percent want to do it entirely or mostly via tax increases. It’s true that most of the public prefers a deal that includes some new revenues, but that preference is small enough that it’s not likely to produce any movement on taxes from Republicans.

In other news, the public is enormously in favor of raising the minimum wage; Obama’s approval rating is up a bit and Republicans’ approval ratings are at record lows; immigration is on a knife-edge; and nobody cares about climate change.

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Head of American Petroleum Institute doesn’t see a need to regulate carbon anymore

by pedzacastrzala87 Posted on February 21, 2013

Head of American Petroleum Institute doesn’t see a need to regulate carbon anymore

By Philip Bump

Last week, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced that they will soon introduce comprehensive climate change legislation. It would make for an interesting debate in the Senate; it would be light years better than policy that exists currently. It also has literally no chance of passing either chamber.

Which has prompted the American Petroleum Institute’s Jack Gerard to dig the bill a grave for the purposes of offering a dancefloor. From The Hill:

American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard said he did not expect the Senate to vote on the bill …

“I think no, it will not get to the floor, and I think the reason it won’t get to the floor is the dynamics surrounding carbon has changed,” Gerard told E&E TV.

Specifically, Gerard cited increased use of natural gas, which has helped reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. over the past several years. However, don’t worry: Gerard is still spectacularly wrong.

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Jack Gerard (file photo).

The reason the bill may not/probably won’t get to the Senate floor is that the “dynamics surrounding carbon” haven’t changed one fucking bit. There’s still no political will to act on the issue, just as there has been no will to act on the issue for years. And that is solely a function of the work done by people like Jack Gerard, the Wayne LaPierre of oil production, who has built his empire on the back of the status quo. Gerard’s reason for existence, the reason he earned a reported $6.4 million in 2010, is to keep the dynamics surrounding carbon exactly where they are.

If the dynamics surrounding carbon pollution had actually changed, so would policies affecting carbon pollution. This bill is doomed to failure not because the climate problem has been solved; it’s because the political problem hasn’t been. Which is exactly how Jack Gerard wants it.

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