Paul Krugman is smart (and ponies)

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Monday November 15, 2010 · 2:06 PM PST

2010/11/15 · 14:06

Paul Krugman is very smart.

He has a Nobel Prize.

He is a tenured professor at Princeton.

He’s written a whole bunch of stuff.

He’s a brilliant economist.

But he (still) can’t count to 60.

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Paul Krugman

is right.

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is a brilliant economist; a political scientist, not so much.

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deserves a pony.

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Pie.

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International Day of UN Peacekeepers

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Friday May 29, 2009 · 5:50 PM PDT

2009/05/29 · 17:50

Under UN General Assembly Resolution 57/129 [PDF] of Feb. 24, 2003, today, May 29 is designated "International Day of UN Peacekeepers."

It's worth taking a moment to consider the contributions that UN peacekeepers (military and civilian) make to international peace and security, in the most difficult circumstances (Darfur, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo).

UN peacekeepers are currently the second largest internationally deployed military force in the world (after the US military). Over 90,000 peacekeeping troops and police from 117 countries are deployed under UN command in 16 peacekeeping missions that are helping to keep the peace from East Timor to Haiti to Sudan to Lebanon.

The dramatic increase in UN peacekeeping since the end of the Cold War corresponds to a significant decrease in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. But peacekeeping is badly overstretched.

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Sunday October 17, 2004 · 4:13 PM PDT

2004/10/17 · 16:13

I'd love to see an ad with the Bush statements in the extended entry (on not being concerned about Osama) set to the music of Darryl Worley's "Have You Forgotten." The juxtaposition of Bush's statement "I'm truly not that concerned about him [bin Laden]," with the lyric "You say we shouldn't worry about bin Laden/Have you forgotten [9/11]?" could be pretty powerful, especially for country music fans who realize their trust in Bush has been abused.

The problem would be obtaining copyright permission, since Worley is a Bush supporter. But his label, Dreamworks Nashville, is a subsidiary of Dreamworks SKG. And if Dreamworks controls copyright of the song, then it's probably possible to get permission to use it for such an ad, given the politics of Spielberg et al. Read More

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International Day of UN Peacekeepers

Have you forgotten? (Ad idea/legal question)