Monday Morning Tab Dump

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Kevin S. Willis

Esquire profiles Jon Stewart: Jon Stewart and the Burden of History.

Jon Stewart isn’t always nice, and may have a personal agenda. Shocking.

Email Trail on Solyndra looks like the the faceless bureaucrats were doing their job, but their cautious concern was apparently ignored at the end of the day. I’m past the point where I can experience schadenfreude on “liberal” failures. This is bad, and it would have been better to put the money into boutique companies making expensive electric sports cars (wait, we have? Ruh roh.) than to pick a solar plant that many folks saw as doomed to fail from the outset.

Solar energy is something we should be pursuing and expanding. This sort of stuff is not helpful. But, according to VC Vinod Khosla, it’s to be expected, and progress will continue.

Finally, as we have discussed on more than one occasion the value of being civil, and trying to understand in our disagreements, rather than just argue, I point you to Kathryn Schulz TED Talk on Being Wrong:

She makes a point that seems simple, but is one we tend to lose sight of in the heat of debate. She asks, “What does it feel like to be wrong?” The answer being, of course, it feels exactly like being right. Anyway, I think it’s worth listening to.

Update: Something that combines John Stewart and Solyndra. Just sort of brings it all home. You go, Joe Biden!

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