I’m not the economist of the group — double-R? — but this article discussing economics and the current state of politics has some choice one-liners.

The Democrats have become the eat-your-spinach party, preaching the virtues of fiscal restraint, while Republicans invite Americans to a free lunch. … No less an authority than Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve and a former enthusiast of the Bush tax cuts, has warned that the deficits pose “a significant obstacle to long-term stability.” … Another explanation is more consistent with economic and political rationality. Bill Clinton, and now John Kerry, have taught the bond traders on Wall Street an important and comforting lesson: no matter how big deficits grow under Republican presidents, eventually a Democratic president will come along to clean up the mess. That confidence is helping to keep long-term rates down, despite the current out-of-control deficits.

Here’s a site with animated instruction on tying all types of knots.

Should I just create a category called “Public Bookmark”?

This is a very brief time-waster. Move your mouse around to pass the red ball in the circle.

Does it say something that I spent a lot of time hovering the ball in the middle of the circle moving it back and forth just out of reach from everyone?

Today’s reason: manipulating the Supreme Court.

A couple of letters printed at the Washingont Post discuss the timing of the Abu Ghraib scandal and arguments before the Supreme Court.

Oral argument in those cases, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Padilla v. Rumsfeld, ended about noon April 28. CBS aired the report eight hours later. Had the report aired the previous week, the government’s responses to certain questions at oral argument would certainly have been different. Specifically, it would have been clear what abuses could be perpetrated under the government’s theory that “enemy combatants” have no rights.

As it happened, the justices asked Principal Deputy Solicitor General Paul D. Clement what in the law would check the executive branch from torturing prisoners. He responded that the government would honor its obligations under the “convention to prohibit torture and that sort of thing.”

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