links for 2010-02-03

• Aeschylus: The Suppliants
• Ed Kilgore: Gulliver Among the Lilliputians
  Reading Peggy Noonan is emotionally difficult for me. For one thing, she was the first of a breed that I find inherently obnoxious: the Celebrity Speechwrite
• Daring Fireball: Simplenote
• Simplenote Backup
• Interesting facts about Simplenote support in Notational Velocity
• Simplenote - Fast, clean, synchronized notes for iPhone and iPod touch. Now free!
• Robert Farley: Who are You, and What Have You Done with William Saletan?
• Matthew Yglesias: The “I’ve Got Mine” Generation
• Bruce Bartlett: Why I Am Not a Republican
• U.S. Budget: Economic and Budget Analyses
• Paul Krugman: Romer and Bernstein on stimulus
• Matthew Yglesias » The “I’ve Got Mine” Generation
• Matthew Yglesias: The Bad Economics and Worse Political Science of Fiscal Retrenchment
• Bob Williams: Obama Expands the Baseline—Again
• James Fallows: Why bipartisanship can't work: the expert view
• Paul Krugman: Fiscalizing Failure
• John Krainer: Mortgage Choice and the Pricing of Fixed-Rate and Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
• Gideon Rachman: How the bottom fell out of ‘old’ Davos
• Ezra Klein: Rep. Paul Ryan's daring budget proposal
• Matthew Yglesias: The Fate of American Democracy Hangs on the Continued Financial Viability of the Washington Post
• Andrew Kramer: The Evolution of Russia, as Seen From McDonald’s
• Paul Krugman: The One-Minute Trade Policy Theorist
• Dean Baker; Walking away from negative equity
• Price Fishback et al.: A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
• Tim Harford: Opportunity Costs, Again
• Rufus F.: Aeschylus, “The Suppliants”
• Matthew Yglesias: Confederate Flag: Pro-Slavery