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Must-read
Brad DeLong's scathing analysis of White House economics adviser Larry Lindsey's ouster. Choice quote:
| | Today we know that it never crosses the minds of the powers-that-be in the Bush White House that good economic policies might be worth pursuing because good economic policies lead to a stronger economy. To the powers- that-be in the Bush White House, economic policies are way to reward favored groups of constituents. And their effect on the economy? They don't need to think about no stinking effect of policy on the economy. |
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Snow crash?
Does anyone else find it odd that, when it came time for the Bush administration to replace Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill -- a CEO of an old-line industry who worked with Dick Cheney in the Ford administration days -- it chose John Snow: CEO of an old-line industry who worked with Dick Cheney in the Ford administration days? (It seems the answer is yes: Business Week asks a similar question.) Snow, we're told, is smoother than O'Neill, who quickly developed a reputation as a loose cannon. If that's wrong, and Snow turns out to be another O'Neill in this regard too, we have a new nickname for the Bush White House: Cheney's zanies.
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New cool
I missed Dave Winer's Chinese-restaurant bash last night, which sounds like it was a blast, because I had to tend to an extremely mundane task: I needed to buy a new refrigerator.
Have you ever opened your freezer one morning to be met by a waft of luke-warm air, a drip-drip of meltings and the unmistakably awful odor of a mountain of defrosted and rapidly spoiling perishables? That's what happened to us on Sunday, when the old fridge that was already on its last legs when we moved into our house six years ago finally gave up the ghost.
The replacement cycle for refrigerators is positively tortoise-like compared to the speed with which we are expected to upgrade our computers. But we should have known it was time to ditch the thing when the handle broke off last month. Instead, I chose to view that as a feature, not a bug: Hey, now the three-year-olds couldn't open it by themselves!
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Supernova
I couldn't make it back for Day 2 of this conference -- too much to do back at the office -- but Day 1 was full of interesting stuff. (And hey, I can keep up with the conference blog.) Look for a regular column later this week. I'm afraid I'm not much of a real-time blogger; I don't have wireless and I've gotten so tired of lugging my laptop around at conferences that I've reverted to low-tech notebook scribbling. My motto: I Blog When I Can.
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