Long engagement: a reason I'm proud to be a DC resident

Article in Washington Post on a Long Engagement

This is just cool....

Lightning in Chicago:

Sachs' pronouncement

Article on Sachs' pronouncement of the death of Keynesianism.  (Link to original within).

Fries

How to make fries...I mean really make fries.

Mental Spew

• A good article on capitalism in Hollywood by Alex Tabarrok
• A debate on the least Bohemian city.  For most Bohemian, my vote would be Baltimore.  
• Interesting paper on the labor market in this current recession.  Echoes some things I am currently working on.
• Good post on some issues in Asia by Daniel over at Facts and other stubborn things.  One thing to add...there are some flaws in the argument that the US situation is like Japan.  The US banking system is far more solid (look how fast they have managed to return the TARP money).  Japan's economy was under a dual decline of unemployment and consumer spending that helped magnify the issue (US spending has not suffered much since 2001).  Government borrowing was 130 percent of GDP.  I'm not downplaying the seriousness of US debt, but it is not in the same neighborhood.
• Flyers tie it up!!

World Cup by economists

Article on the incidence of economists predicting the World Cup.  One note: it is troubling evidence of the ignorance of math that the author felt it necessary to add a disclaimer about the "snarls of math" referring to a simple linear equation.

Some more great music

Found these channels on Youtube

NPR
WFUV
893 The Current
KEXP

Immigration policies

A good example of how our immigration system is atrocious.