Stylized Facts http://www.stylizedfacts.com/ Frequent sideblog: Coruscation. en Copyright 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:48:06 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Background checks "This is the lexis nexis search string that I use for AG appointments."
The string reads as follows:

[First name of a candidate]! and pre/2 [last name of a
candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or
charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra
or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or
controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or
layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict!
or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired
or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or
controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or
firearm!

Jan Williams, with Monica Goodling,at page 21.

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/08/background_checks.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/08/background_checks.html Law Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:48:06 +0000 Hipster as consumer or as producer ? I'd always understood "hipster" as someone who tried to claim creativity by proxy, by acquiring someone else's creative output, and trying to defend that acquisition as unique by deriding anyone and everyone else who acquired it as wannabes.

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/08/hipster_cionsumer_or_producer.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/08/hipster_cionsumer_or_producer.html Culture Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:36:16 +0000 Etrade options Etrade's option infographs and risk management strategies.

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/08/etrade_options.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/08/etrade_options.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:03:06 +0000 The Obamas love, but question, America A favorite theme, said Salil Mehra, now a law professor at Temple University, were the values and cultural touchstones that Americans share. Mr. Obama's case in point: his wife, Michelle, a black woman, loved "The Brady Bunch" so much that she could identify every episode by its opening shots.

After the fluff, the meat:

In the national level, bipartisanship usually means Democrats ignore the needs of the poor and abandon the idea that government can play a role in issues of poverty, race discrimination, sex discrimination or environmental protection.

The Long Run: Teaching Law, Testing Ideas, Obama Stood Apart
By JODI KANTOR
Published: July 30, 2008
In his 12 years as a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, Barack Obama was popular and enigmatic.


]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/08/the_obamas_love_but_question_a.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/08/the_obamas_love_but_question_a.html Politics Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:03:16 +0000 Heth and Jed jam NY transit Heth and Jed, the best buskers of NYC, lure and relax hundreds
of commuters. Space guitar !


]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/07/heth_and_jed_jam_ny_transit.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/07/heth_and_jed_jam_ny_transit.html Culture Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:59:37 +0000 Stuff White People Like Q. But isn't it kind of a contradiction, because isn't bragging about
not having a TV also a sign of status?

A. Yes, because do you know how white people consume "The Wire"?
Netflix subscription watched on their MacBook.

-- Christian Lander, Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to
the Unique Taste of Millions.

See also Salon interview.


]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/07/but_isnt_it_kind_of.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/07/but_isnt_it_kind_of.html Culture Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:54:16 +0000 Die Hard Yuppie Scum The starting point was the Bowery Wine Company, a sleek bar
partly owned by Bruce Willis, ...

Life in the East Village, the Bowery, the Lower East Side, NY.

[via NYT/New York Region
East Village Protesters Denounce All Things Gentrified. It's a Tradition.
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Published: June 15, 2008
You know it's summer in the East Village when the protesters show up,
speaking against gentrification and its perceived agents.]

15protest.yuppie.jpg

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/06/die_hard_yuppie_scim.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/06/die_hard_yuppie_scim.html Culture Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:48:43 +0000 Wine appreciation The French on wine are not alcoholics. They are bon vivants and connoisseurs !

[Via Parenting]

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/06/wine_appreciation.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/06/wine_appreciation.html Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:40:05 +0000 The forest, the gentry, the lost, we're all
captives here in the hootenanny
tooth gap awaiting a tongue. Number
each and every suitor. One, awake. Two, too
awake, ethical. Barely torque the tanker
but slide the slick before the oil so the opacity
recalls--this doesn't feel right, does it--
I want to think like you, the you of shapes,
not the you of sizes. Integrity?
To say that something is adequate
enough is a tautology. Is already
is but careful. Ah is it just sap? Code word: funny

-- Corina Copp, Fence14

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/05/the_forest_the_gentry_the_lost.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/05/the_forest_the_gentry_the_lost.html Thu, 15 May 2008 03:21:39 +0000 High grade enhanced unemployed man in vest fund

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/05/high_grade_enhanced_unemployed.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/05/high_grade_enhanced_unemployed.html Fri, 02 May 2008 04:16:07 +0000 Another way of seeing There is another way of seeing, but it never
occurs to us to remove our glasses.

-- Ben Wolfson.

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/04/another_way_of_seeing.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2008/04/another_way_of_seeing.html Language Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:01:52 +0000 She was, in fact, a maid Correction: October 21, 2007

An article last Sunday about the fashion industry’s
reticence to use black models referred incorrectly
to a black woman in a maid’s outfit pictured in the
September issue of Italian Vogue.

She was, in fact, a maid at the hotel where the pictures
were taken, and was included, the Vogue photographer
said, because of her attractiveness and her ability to
underscore the pictures’ theme of a stereotypical
rich white woman who hires ethnic servants; the
black woman was not a model dressed as a maid.

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2007/11/she_was_in_fact_a_maid.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2007/11/she_was_in_fact_a_maid.html Culture Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:26:54 +0000 Le Parcours If skateboarding is banned, we will still
have le parcours.

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2007/10/le_parcours.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2007/10/le_parcours.html M-x yow Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:54:13 +0000 Meritorious Meritocracy In a meritocracy, it is those who are without merit who will
be left behind. Do the meritless(*) merit assistance ?

Despite their image as meritocratic beacons of opportunity,
the selective colleges serve less as vehicles of upward mobility
than as transmitters of privilege from generation to generation.

-- JEROME KARABEL

(*) Also including those with a paucity of merit.

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2007/09/meritorious_meritocracy.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2007/09/meritorious_meritocracy.html Quote Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:28:40 +0000 Two types of people There are basically two types of people - those who create glib
dichotomies as a cheap rhetorical device, and those who reject
oversimple two-valued logic as a tool of social inquiry.

MeFi

]]> http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2007/09/two_types_of_people.html http://www.stylizedfacts.com/2007/09/two_types_of_people.html Quote Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:45:02 +0000