yet another million/billion error, and Kessell is energy minister, not finance. The post has been corrected.

This thread is just too good.

I called him an economist. As a reader in a different thread points out -- he is a law professor. I've fixed the error.

the comment pointing out my error on sunstein appeared in the comments on a different post altogether, sorry for any confusion.

sorry about that. i'll fix.

there may not be 20,000 priuses in berkeley, but a couple of days ago I counted sixteen while walking the two blocks between my house and the nearest supermarket. I do believe they are breeding independently.

All the rest of that post is true, by the way.

I have updated the post to note that the original post turns out to be a joke.

I honor your service (and I added your comment to the original post).

apologies -- i confused the date of the obit with the date of his death. thanks for the correction.

My mistake, from spending too much time in parts of the blogosphere, where the term "shrill" has been used ironically for some time now to refer to people like Krugman, who have turned out to be completely right in their analysis, but were originally labeled as "shrill" by the right wing.

Brad DeLong is the leader of this ironic reversal brigade. I should have provided a link.

that was an error and I'll correct it.

A copy and paste error led to the wrong link for interstellar trade.

http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

And I had forgotten (or never knew) about Proxmire's opposition to NASA! Which of course makes the joke even better.

Not Kermit? All these years I've lived under such a misapprehension. A very quick web search offers no clarity, so I have changed the wording.

Thank you.

The copy desk just informed me that we already ran this! I blame the lingering effects of pneumonia. I am clearly still not ready for prime time.

I was hospitalized for pneumonia a week ago Saturday -- released after two days, and then sloooooooowly regained strength over the intervening week. My apologies!

The Bloomberg article I linked to includes the 90 percent assertion. Last week, manufacturing fell to under 10 percent for the first time ever. I don't have the stat for agriculture handy, but my recollection is that it is now a tiny fraction of the overall economy. I'll dig around.

once you get past two, I can't keep count.

I regret the error!

Some people are so picky.

Thanks.

for providing more info on the dates of Clinton's surgery and the bill vote. i should have done more fact-checking of my own, and upon reflection, I do think, even though Bill had a procedure the day of the vote, that Hillary's absence has ambiguous aspects. Credit Slips is right, the only one who comes out looking unimpeachable on this topic is Obama.

For anyone who was confused earlier, in my initial headline I inadvertently wrote "regulation" instead of "deregulation" in the phrase "radical economic deregulation."

I think most of you understood it anyway, but I regret causing the mixup.

One of our servers appears to be misbehaving today, possibly because of umpteen-billion people reading Camille Paglia. Thanks for the heads up, Sound & Fury.

thanks for the info dcmserver -- in one of the articles I link to, a critic of the Paufler thesis, Verhoeven, makes the same case as you do about the likelihood that carbon nanotubes would be in most steel swords.

Embarassing.

Not only am I familiar with The Baroque cycle (I reviewed each of the three volumes for Salon)...

http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/books/2003/09/24/quicksilver/

http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2004/04/21/confusion/

http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/books/2004/09/22/system/

...but as I was researching this topic I kept thinking to myself, this seems like it could be a chapter right out of Stephenson's epic, and I _even_ recalled the section that takes place at an Indian mine but I didn't connect the dots and realize that the steel being smelted in Stephenson was wootz.

Ah well.

thanks for catching that, scorpio

must have been the crowds of voters in New Hampshire that distracted me.

thanks for pointing that out. i did wonder at the lack of explicit content referencing Paul. I've added a note to the post

there appears to be conflicting info on the Web on where ACE is domiciled, but since the company's own Web site nows says Bermuda, I made the fix.

you're not the only suggesting I misinterpreted the significance of the World Bank Loan. I've added a update to the post and changed the headline slightly.

a little allergy medicine and everything cleared up...

fixed

PS 183 was the elementary school I went to from kindergarten through 3rd grade Randall. I'm pretty near positive PS 190 on 82nds street between first and second was where I went to fourth-sixth.

This New York Times article,

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2D61F3AF930A15754C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

describes a PS 190 on 82nd street, as of 1989...

what a find! thanks leslie. of course, that appears to be a recipe for making small salt-stick rolls, and not the GIANT saltstick, but one must start somewhere!

man.

yet another truly cringe-worthy error.

i'll fix.

sorry, i really didn't mean to be condescending. i just meant to deprecate my own attempt at a joke, because really, aside from my French readers, who in the world was going to get a in implied ironic dig at Minitel? it was badly executed.

you're right, recycling right-wing tropes isn't brilliant wit.