So, after more hours than I’d like to admit, I’ve made it through the first Movable Type year (2002-2003) of
recategorizing and retagging the GitM archives. Among the things I’ve learned so far:
Paul Rudd will be playing Batman or Superman, against Christian Bale, in Wolfgang Petersen’s World’s Finest. Unless it’s Jude Law.
“Blue laser DVDs” are expected in the market by 2005…all models will be retro-compatible with red-laser DVD’s.
I had forgotten how this “pick-a-card” website could read my mind and had to figure it out all over again.
Lifetime’s Cinema Sequence is still quite a fun web game.
Over the past decade, GitM has gone from being worth nothing to $43,000 on the now-defunct Blogshares. Woot.
The Washington Post and Boston Globe have changed their link structures, so many old posts referencing their content are now dead ends.
I used to care more about deficits than I do now. (And, conversely, Republicans used to care much less.) In the parlance of the Beltway, “my views have evolved” on this subject.
Part of the reason for the shift is the good versus bad spending dichotomy I talked about in 2010. But, more to the point, I’ve since read up on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). (See also: Warren Mosler’s Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy.)
Basically, I was parroting the conventional wisdom on “fiscal responsibility” back then, and didn’t know what I was talking about.
