The administration would like things both ways on healthcare reform: There are other complications. Mr. Verrilli’s argument that the penalty is not a tax for purposes of the 1867 law is in potential tension with one he will make on Tuesday, that the mandate was authorized not only by
Todd Alcott (http://www.toddalcott.com/a-note-on-the-hunger-games.html): The studio executive we went to see was a very nice, very kind, very intelligent young woman. I pitched to her not one movie but three, I pitched to her for over an hour, laying out a
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Kevin Craft: The audience is supposed to take him and his work seriously. Part of the nostalgic hook of Mad Men goes beyond the look and feel of the 1960s; the show also transports us back to a time when irony wasn’t quite as rampant, when cultural messages, including
Jim Dalrymple: People generally don’t care as much about specs as they do about what they can do with the device. You can list off the specs for the new iPad and people will just nod politely and smile. However, if you tell them that with iCloud all of
For the past ten months, I’ve been working on an application for the iPad. It’s called Basil, and you can check it out here. I am so excited to finally share it with all of you. Here’s the idea: Basil is for saving recipes from the web,
Patrick Rhone’s new book, Enough, is out. Here’s how Patrick describes it: What is enough? Enough is a very personal metric. Like our center of gravity, each of us must find what is enough by swaying from less to more until a comfortable medium is found. The goal,
Peyton Manning is going to Denver. (http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_20206618/peyton-manning-picks-broncos-contract-close) I’ve been an (obsessive) Broncos fan since I lived in Denver when I was a kid, so I can’t help but be excited. It’s Peyton Manning, one of
David Barnard, riffing on T.S. Elliot: When you steal an idea and have the time and good taste to make it your own, it grows into something different, hopefully something greater. But as you borrow more and more from other products, there’s less and less of you in
While the decrease in unemployment is encouraging, it isn’t reflected in GDP data. From the Economist (http://www.economist.com/node/21550256): This is hardly the unshackling of a Titan. As befits a recovery characterised by such fine gradations as the distinction between modest and moderate, there are a
Bo Xilai, the son of a CCP official from when the CCP was still fighting the KMT for control of China, was removed from his position as party chief of Chongqing for a scandal surrounding his police chief. Here’s more (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/world/asia/
Brent Simmons on introductory app prices: There’s also something to be said for stability and trustworthiness, which is reinforced by stable pricing.