1. Via Craig Newmark, a short class on behavioral economics (are the speakers or the audience more impressive?)
2. List of very good contemporary TV shows
3. Diasyrmus
4. The first Haitian opera (to buy it, right click on "shop" and then click on the Dutch phrase at the bottom of the page)
5. Nursing home reform I can favor.
6. Which three Senators receive the most Fannie Mae money?
30 Rock really is the best show on TV.
Arrested Development on the other hand is so awful I don’t even have words for it.
Good list, but Real Time with Bill Maher should have been there as well!
+1 for Arrested Development. Canceling it was sadly appropriate–in the same way Howard Roark (The Fountainhead) bombed his own construction site: too many folks not appreciating brilliance.
I sure wish Firefly was on that list. But that was five years ago.
No love for Rescue Me?
i like #3.
For the record, I think Deadwood may have been the best show to ever
appear on the small screen. Where else would you find a dispicable anti-hero
delivering a soliloquy in iambic pentameter to a box containing the head of
a dead chief? The writing, the acting, the production, all brilliant.
As for Arrested Development: Among the top two or three funniest shows ever.
That said, brilliant writing on all of the shows listed.
Obama was #3 over the timeframe 1989-2007? He was only there for the last bit. Adjusting for his tenure, I wonder if he takes top honors.
where’s The Office?
Please square your claim with a link from the paper, Alex. Yesterday’s New York Times disagrees with that assertion (as does the cited link, though they differ). See, for example http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/us/politics/10fannie.html?_r=1&scp=1
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