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Friday Cat Blogging – 8 August 2014

by JanisEasley Posted on August 8, 2014

Mother Jones

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Last week you could barely see Domino’s face, so this week we get a close-up. Here she is outside in the summer sun enjoying a chin smooch from Marian.

In other cat news, click here to read about Coco, the lovely Siamese Wi-Fi sniffing cat from Virginia. If I tried this with Domino, she would sniff out my Wi-Fi and….that’s about it. She doesn’t roam much, and these days even less than usual. I don’t think she’s ventured more than ten feet from a doorway in years.

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Friday Cat Blogging – 8 August 2014

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Chart of the Day: How Austerity Wrecked the Recovery

by BobbyLomas Posted on August 4, 2014

Mother Jones

I’ve previously nominated a version of the illustration below as chart of the year, and last year I wrote an entire piece for the print magazine as basically just an excuse to get it in print. Bill McBride’s version focuses on public sector payroll, not total public sector spending, but it tells the same story: after every previous recession of the past 40 years, the subsequent recovery was helped along by increased government outlays. In the 2007-08 recession—and only in this recession—the recovery was deliberately hobbled by insisting on declining government outlays. This is despite the fact that it was the worst recession of the bunch.

The result, of course, was that there was no Obama Miracle in 2011. In fact, there was barely even an Obama Recovery. If you think that’s just a coincidence, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Should Pundits Apologize More Often?

by FletcheDriscoll Posted on August 1, 2014

Mother Jones

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From Dan Drezner:

One norm I’d really like to see emerge is pundits admitting error and apologizing when they get things wrong, and Frum did that. But I’m curious what other norms, if any, should be strengthened among the pontificating class.

I’d dissent slightly from this. Should pundits do a better job of admitting when they get things wrong? Sure. Who can argue with that? But should they apologize? I’m not so sure. Being wrong isn’t a sin, after all, especially for someone in the business of offering up opinions. I’d be happy to see a bit more self-reflection about what caused the error, but there’s no need for an apology.

Now, Drezner wrote this in the context of David Frum’s allegation that a New York Times photo had been faked, which turned out to be untrue. This is obviously a case that calls for an apology since Frum accused someone of wrongdoing. But that’s a bit different from simply being wrong in an analytic or predictive way. That kind of error, as long as it’s honest, deserves some reflection, but not an apology.

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