Achenblog: March 8, 2009 - March 14, 2009
Jon Stewart Thwaps Jim Cramer
In exposing Jim Cramer last night, Jon Stewart precisely summarized -- better than anyone I've heard before -- the dark heart of the financial calamity: There was a fake market and a real market. The market we thought we were...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 13, 2009; 9:31 AM ET |
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Updike's Ultimate Page
Updike is still filing copy from beyond the grave, this time a sequence of poems written in the final months of his life. He was not ready to go, not happy about it at all, ransacking his memory for...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 12, 2009; 8:04 AM ET |
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Cosmic Thoughts Roundup
Blast-off scheduled for tonight. -- In the same way that there's are Political Browsers and Aggregators and Cheat Sheets, there ought to be a morning roundup of huge cosmic thoughts. You know: Epistemology Daily. The Meaning of Life Digest....
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Joel Achenbach
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March 11, 2009; 7:32 AM ET |
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Information Wants To Be Stolen
In a new personal low, the other day I found myself trying to discern the Google rankings of a story I'd written on a newsy topic. Yes: Even more pathetic than checking one's Amazon ranking. But I was curious because...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 10, 2009; 8:37 AM ET |
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If We Find Another Earth
I have a little story today about Kepler, the planet-finding telescope that launched Friday night. I keep wondering what we'd do if we actually found a pale blue dot out there somewhere. It strikes me as rife with possibilities for...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 9, 2009; 7:17 AM ET |
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