It’s a pretty cool place for people your age, from what I’m told. Anyway, I just thought that you should know: do you know Sarah & James Parker? They go to your school. Yeah, them. Are they nice? I’ve never met them, so I don’t know. I do know that their parents really ca...

Well Is It? In the vein of "Is it iced coffee weather?" we have "Is This The Bottom?" (Via Market Movers) Fallin: Recovery Rates for leveraged loans have been less than 25%. (WSJ) Same Dif: "As hedge funds come under increasing regulations, analysts believe the next industry to face tighter and stri...

By Sean Mills Noticed something interesting today on the web. Not once, but twice, News Corp properties said something nice about The New York Times, or at least referenced their content as interesting and discussion worthy. First, Andrew LaVelle of the Wall Street Journal penned this post to the Di...

Noticed something interesting today on the web. Not once, but twice, News Corp properties said something nice about The New York Times, or at least referenced their content as interesting and discussion worthy. First, Andrew LaVelle of the Wall Street Journal penned this post to the Digits blog, bas...

InfoQ: Language Parity: Closures and the JVM - In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, Neal Gafter discusses closures on the JVM. Topics covered include the JVM libraries, the challenges of running other languages on the JVM, language-specific wrapper/shim libraries, ways of making ...

Stock downgrades. Acquisitions that didn't pan out. Businesses leaking cash. Layoffs. And a whole lot of pessimism about the future. Is Rupert Murdoch losing his magic, wrinkly touch? ITEM: An analyst downgraded News Corp's stock because of a whole freaking parcel of problems which he thinks managem...

They're all idiots. The Real 'Torture' Disgrace The left gears up to prosecute Bush officials for protecting the country. The release of Carl Levin's report on the Bush Administration's alleged "torture" policies was a formality: The Senator's conclusions were politically predetermined long ago. Sti...

The Wall Street Journal and the Cato Institute continue their unremitting self-parody with today’s clueless editorial touting . . . (yes, get ready for it) . . . Ayn Rand’s turgid, melodramatic novel Atlas Shrugged. Proving that Cato really is peopled exclusively with surly 15-year-old p...

The Wall Street Journal has yet more bright ideas for solving the auto industry’s problems. For the good of the workers, of course. In the continuing battle over Detroit, UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger doesn’t seem to get the picture. Let’s help him. Uh-oh. If the WSJ editorial page w...

The Wall Street Journal exists in a bizarre intellectual and publishing space: they hold a commanding position in the heirarchy of newspaper respect and influence, while serving as the quasi-official house organ of the free-market cult, and yet consistently publish the stupidest drivel, demonstratin...