links for 2010-03-01

• Edmund Andrews: Dodd's proposed compromise
• Richard Chappell: The Homunculus in the Chinese Room
• Jonathan Rauch: It's George Wallace's GOP Now
• Andrew Scott: US and UK can handle decades of debt
• Conor Friedersdorf Jumps the Shark
  With "Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru are intelligent writers whose work is normally a credit to National Review..." he exceeds his allowed lifetime number of sh*t-eating apologetic and obsequious throat-clearing literary maneuvers. That is all.
• Calculated Risk: Weekly Summary and a Look Ahead
  This will be a busy week for economic data, and the focus will be on the BLS February employment report to be released on Friday. The consensus is for a net loss of 50 to 80 thousand payroll jobs, and the unemployment rate to increase slightly to 9.8% (from 9.7%). There is considerable debate on the impact of the snow storms on the employment report. The BLS will disclose and adjust for any snow related data collection issues, but some hiring might have been delayed because of the storms.
• kung fu grippe : nostrich: Summary: There’s a thin line between...
• Frank Rich: The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged
• Rufus F.: Aeschylus “The Oresteia”
• Al Gore: We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change
• Calculated Risk: 1.2 Million to Lose Unemployment Benefits Today
• Coffee producers ‘getting hammered’ by global climate change
• John Hempton: In which Paul Krugman proves he is an academic snob who argues from his prejudice rather than the data
• Jo Walton: The joy of an unfinished series