{"id":4949,"date":"2010-08-13T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/13\/links-for-2010-08-13\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T08:06:32","slug":"links-for-2010-08-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/13\/links-for-2010-08-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-08-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/12\/think-globally-compromise-locally\/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Think Globally, Compromise Locally &#8211; Green Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Bill McKibben, whose 1989 book, &#8220;The End of Nature,&#8221; helped coalesce and spread worry about climate change, views the national environmental groups&#8217; strategy of winning support for energy and climate legislation by compromising with industry as a complete failure. &#8220;The result: total defeat, no moral victories,&#8221; he wrote at the environmental news site Grist, speaking of the Senate&#8217;s inaction on climate legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making nice doesn&#8217;t work,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the merits of his position, it has less traction when it comes to local environmental issues. In this arena, there has been a string of successful compromises between environmentalists and industry in the last two weeks.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/nytimes\">nytimes<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2010\/08\/12\/not-going-galt\/\">Not going Galt &#8212; Crooked Timber<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;[W]hy has there never been a serious attempt at a real libertarian utopia? Most other utopian ideologies have inspired at least someone to attempt a practical implementation. On the face of it, libertarianism seems ideally suited to the belief in a fresh start, with no messy pre-existing claims. All sorts of ideas have been floated &#8211; island buyouts, sea-steading, co-ordinated moves to New Hampshire and so on, but none has gone anywhere. The only explanation I&#8217;ve seen, that libertarians are too independent and ornery to organise a utopia doesn&#8217;t convince me.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about the discussion we had though, it strikes me that there is a simple explanation: Actually Existing Libertarianism (see below) offers a better economic deal for nearly all libertarians than any feasible version of Galt&#8217;s Gulch. Once you do the math on going Galt, it&#8217;s not hard to see why no self-respecting libertarian would actually do it.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/crooked-timber\">crooked-timber<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2010\/08\/2-sewers-and-storm-drains.html\">slacktivist: 2. Sewers and storm drains<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;This is work that needs doing at a time when work is needed so &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>DEFICITS! ZOMG!1! DEFICITS!!1!!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, OK, calm down please. We&#8217;re accounting for that.<\/p>\n<p>See the biggest current cause of federal and state deficits is unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Let me repeat that to double the odds of this finally sinking in:<\/p>\n<p>The biggest current cause of federal and state deficits is unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>First there&#8217;s the massive reduction in tax revenue from the 14.6 million Americans unable to find work. Then there&#8217;s the expense of paying their unemployment benefits. For every one of those 14.6 million who finds a new job revenue goes up and spending goes down and the deficit shrinks.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re worried about deficits right now, you need to be worrying about unemployment.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/jobs\">jobs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/full-timers-with-overloads.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: Full-Timers with Overloads<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Although overloads are actually quite common, I rarely see them discussed when people talk about adjunct ratios. Full-timers teaching overloads fall between categories. When determining something as basic as &#8220;the percentage of classes taught by adjuncts,&#8221; how should the overload sections be counted? I have departments in which the overload sections are as plentiful as adjunct sections; depending on how you choose to count them, you could wind up with very different pictures of what&#8217;s going on. If the argument is based on perceived quality or health insurance, I&#8217;d argue that the full-timers are full-timers. If the argument is based on salary, it&#8217;s more context-dependent. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/jobs\">jobs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Globally, Compromise Locally &#8211; Green Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com &#8220;Bill McKibben, whose 1989 book, &#8220;The End of Nature,&#8221; helped coalesce and spread worry about climate change, views the national environmental groups&#8217; strategy of winning support for energy and climate legislation by compromising with industry as a complete failure. &#8220;The result: total defeat, no moral victories,&#8221;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/13\/links-for-2010-08-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-08-13<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}