links for 2009-05-27

My TMV post

Greg Mankiw, a conservative blogger and Harvard economist, says Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor makes a big income but saves too little. Nate Silver demonstrates that Mankiw is both wrong and hypocritical.

It sounds mostly con to me: “Twitter can be distracting...For people actually there, they maybe spend more time with their computer or phone than talking to people.”