Akkam’s Razor

• The Washington Monthly - More on tax policy…
• Angry Bear: Roubini and the Bail-in this weekend - If Lehman collapses expect a run on all of the other broker dealers and the collapse of the shadow banking system[.]

Popularity: 4% [?]

• The Washington Monthly: John Didn’t Get What He Wanted - John didn't get what he wanted. Right. He could have waited to make his decision until after Palin had been thoroughly vetted. That, however, would have meant giving up his clever idea of announcing his VP pick the day after Obama's convention speech. Alternately, he could have gone with one of the people who had been thoroughly vetted: Pawlenty, for instance. But "neither was the transformative, attention-grabbing choice Mr. McCain felt he needed, top campaign advisers said". So he decided to gamble it all on someone he barely knew and had not vetted.

• Graphic Organizer Worksheets -
• 6 things the Palin pick says about McCain - Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris - Politico.com - The risks of a backlash from choosing someone so unknown and so untested are obvious. In one swift stroke, McCain demolished what had been one of his main arguments against Obama. “I think we’re going to have to examine our tag line, ‘dangerously inexperienced,’” a top McCain official said wryly.
• The Washington Monthly: The Right offers some Reviews -

• Twelve Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss - You probably already get social media, and see its value, and think it’s really nifty cool. But if you can’t articulate the benefits and the return on the effort, and several other little details to the folks upstairs, it’s going to be hard to get your ideas moved from “wouldn’t this be great?” to “let’s assign a project manager and get started.” First and foremost, you have to jump over the fence from where you’re thinking, and get into their mindset.

These are my links for August 12th through August 13th:

• Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos - Words - particularly from books - as bodyart.
• The Washington Monthly: The Burbs - Matt points us today to a discussion on the Freakonomics blog about the future of suburbia in the face of increasing gasoline prices. The consensus view is fairly grim, but it reminds me of a few random points about urban land use that have been on my mind for a while. There's no big overarching point here, and nothing especially original, just a few thoughts that don't seem to get much attention in blogospheric discussions of the burbs.

• Emptywheel » The Rhetoric of More of the Same
  [W]e want to retain an exception to such regulation for the wilder and more complex financial products. So rather than admit that such a system is no longer sustainable, we will institutionalize a general ‘re-set’ button for the entire financial system.”
  (tags: us treasury finance regulations)
• Job Search Made Simple | SimplyHired
  Use our nifty tools to find local jobs, identify trends, research salaries, and secure that offer letter.
  (tags: jobs jobsearch career employment job search web2.0)

• The Job Loss Caused by John McCain
  Hey, a $35BB [military airplane tanker] contract went overseas [and not to Boeing], evidently via the influence of John McCain, and I want some straight talk from the man. Is anyone in the media awake?
  (tags: boeing EADS Airbus johnmccain 2008 election president)
• Cultural sustainability - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
  To me, the idea of “cultural sustainability” is about companies whose actions offset the consequences of their presence (or disappearance).
  (tags: ecomics culture cultutalsustainability business)

• Top 10 Free E-books For Bloggers
  (tags: blogging blogs resource)
• The Dangerous Myth of the Dream Job - FoundRead
  (tags: work myths)
• BLDGBLOG: Hog Island
  In any case, this island of ship-assembly machines is now lost to the muck, bogs, and marshes – and entombed beneath the concrete runways of Philadelphia International Airport.
  (tags: history architecture reference)
• The Third Wave
  How could townspeople, railroad conductors, teachers, doctors, claim they knew nothing about concentration camps and human carnage. How can people who were neighbors and maybe even friends of the Jewish citizen say they weren’t there when it happened?
  (tags: psychology history culture Politics philosophy teaching social)