Chicago, Athens, and JerusalemTumblr (3.0; @erweinstein)http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/Olmert visits University of Chicago, hostility ensues<a href="http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2009/10/16/jeers-stifle-olmerts-speech">Olmert visits University of Chicago, hostility ensues</a>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/217688584http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/217688584Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:01:37 -0400John Scalzi explains the creative life cycle of authors<a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/06/24/why-new-novelists-are-kinda-old/">John Scalzi explains the creative life cycle of authors</a>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/138115504http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/138115504Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:47:28 -0400Saez wins Clark Medal<p>University of California-Berkeley economics professor <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124060090850353803.html">Emmanuel Saez is the 2009 recipient</a> of the <a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/clark_medal.htm">John Bates Clark Medal</a>.</p>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/99904702http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/99904702Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:15:40 -0400Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite In defence of economists<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/blogs/freeexchange/~3/jDExW1eXUPY/not_to_be_coy.cfm">Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite In defence of economists</a>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/98430397http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/98430397Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:33:39 -0400Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite Samuel Huntington, R.I.P. (1927-2008)<a href="http://danieldrezner.com/blog/?p=4127">Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite Samuel Huntington, R.I.P. (1927-2008)</a>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/67263865http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/67263865Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:02:15 -0500USC 35, OSU 3 ???<a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-usc14-2008sep14,0,5888836.story">USC 35, OSU 3 ???</a>: <p>Maualuga’s “touchdown”…worst call in NCAA football I’ve ever seen.</p>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/50148877http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/50148877Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:43:18 -0400Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite What are our personal obligations toward the environment?<a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/09/what-are-our-en.html">Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite What are our personal obligations toward the environment?</a>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/49779730http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/49779730Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:52:46 -0400Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite The experience trap<a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/08/the-experience.html">Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite The experience trap</a>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/48001977http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/48001977Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:41:01 -0400"…your new book… ‘All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black..."“…your new book… ‘All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America’.<br/> If hip-hop can’t save black America, can hip-hop sample something that can save black America?”<br/><br/> - <em>Stephen Colbert, to author and academic <a href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mcwhorter.htm">John McWhorter</a></em>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47998590http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47998590Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:59:41 -0400"…Hillary Clinton giving…what is no doubt the most watched and most recorded speech of..."“…Hillary Clinton giving…what is no doubt the most watched and most recorded speech of her career.”<br/><br/> - <em>Anderson Cooper, from the CNN Democratic National Convention broadcast</em>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47551925http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47551925Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:11:00 -0400Hillary-viewing music<p>I find it strangely appropriate to listen to Squirrel Nut Zippers (softly in the background) while watching Senator Hillary Clinton’s Democratic National Convention speech. Maybe it’s the retro-ness.</p>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47550369http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47550369Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:58:58 -0400"‘kludge’, noun. (pl. kludges) 1. (electronics engineering) an improvised device,..."“‘kludge’, noun. (pl. kludges)<br/> 1. (electronics engineering) an improvised device, usually crudely constructed.<br/> 2. (general) any construction or practice, typically inelegant, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.<br/> 3. (software) an amalgamated mass of totally unrelated parts forming a distressing whole<br/> 4. (productivity) the synchronization process between a Motorola RAZR phone and Google Calendar.”<br/><br/> - <em>Me and <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kludge">Wiktionary</a></em>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47509058http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47509058Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:11:32 -0400Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite Charlie Rose interviews Austan Goolsbee<a href="http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/08/charlie-rose-interviews-austan-goolsbee_20.html">Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite Charlie Rose interviews Austan Goolsbee</a>: <p>More interview with Austan Goolsbee.</p>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47177371http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47177371Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:55:03 -0400Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite The economics of Joseph Biden<a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/08/joseph-biden.html">Eliot Weinstein shared as favorite The economics of Joseph Biden</a>http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47173204http://erweinstein.tumblr.com/post/47173204Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:55:01 -0400