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Zombie Republicans and the Demon Rep Steve King
Daily Kos: Daily Kos Week in Review: All You GOP Zombies by Tom Johnson includes zombie quotes from Beetwasher and from David Nir: Beetwasher: “World War ZOP” The GOP, party of brain-eaters… …[America...
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Diane Ravitch zombies
Zombies is a word you that grabs a lot of people. Some people it takes hold of really strongly. One example is Paul Krugman of the NYTimes who has been mentioned on ZombieLaw many times this year. Now,...
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Wonky Dubstep Crunking
Jason Linkins at HuffPo writes: Obama’s Sequestration Plan: Let’s Show Some Journalists How To Find It, On The Internet” taking issue with NYTimes syndicated columnist David Brooks for two reasons:...
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Krugman: Reinhart-Rogoff zombie
Paul Krugman zombies again “Another Attack of the 90 Percent Zombie“: Is Reinhart-Rogoff itself a zombie? Not quite — it could still be true, although I don’t think so. But the idea that the 90 percent...
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Krugman: Life Expectancy Zombie Argument
Paul Krugman has just published on his NYTimes blog: “The Life Expectancy Zombie” about a debate he had with “JoScar” in which Scarborough refers to the rising life expectancy as reason Social Security...
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Does Senator Graham worry about zombies?
I don’t know how I missed this over the weekend — Gail Collins wrote “zombies” again, in reference to guns and whether Senator Lindsey Graham worries about zombies. From “Senators Bearing Arms” by Gail...
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P-Zombie Hypo as Proof of Non-Physical Consciousness (?)
Just yesterday I was ranting that zombies aren’t only economics and are a larger issue of consciousness and identity in complex systems. Now in NYTimes The Stone: “Mary and the Zombies: Can Science...
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How Long Can You Zombie
The classic joke is “I thought you’d be taller” but I often misquote it as “I thought you were dead” – Either way, zombies — sometimes fast, sometimes very very slow – just keep coming. Michael Cieply...
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Follow-up on P-Zombies @nytimes
Recall from last week, ZombieLaw mentioned a column in the Stone at NYTimes by Gary Gutting about zombie thought experiments hypotheticals regarding philosophical p-zombies. Now, Gutting has a...
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“Stepford/Zombie/Kardashians”
Park City, Utah: “I heard the news today oh boy” by Teri Orr, Park Record columnist: They didn’t want to be burdened with local politics. All politics are local, I wanted to scream. And who are these...
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Reinhart-Rogoff Tipping Point: Zombie Excel Programming Math Error
In February, Paul Krugman wasn’t quite ready to declare Reinhart-Rogoff a zombie idea. But it has been killed now, (it was a excel spreadsheet formula error). So if the 90% debt argument pops up again,...
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Bug Metaphors Billions Cicada 17 year cycle 1990′s web culture hive swarm buzz
Carl Zimmer in NYTimes: “Marvels and a Few Mysteries in Cicadas’ 17 Years” is about the story buzzing around New York news all week regarding the coming storm of dormant insects that arise from...
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NY Editorial Columnist Zombies
Brent Staples editorial in NYTimes: “The Zombie Next Door May Be the Scariest of All“: The term “zombie” has traditionally referred to a corpse that has been reanimated through supernatural means and...
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Maureen Dowd Zombies
Here at ZombieLaw we very much enjoy the “zombies” in the NYTimes, and particularly enjoy the Op-Ed columnists (see previous zombies: Paul Krugman, David Brooks, and Gail Collins). Today the zombie...
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NYTimes mixes Zombie chasers
Maureen Dowd, opinion columnist at the New York Times has referred to “zombie” again this weekend. Recall last month’s Zombielaw post of all Maureen Dowd’s prior “zombie” mentions. Today she writes in...
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NYTimes Paul Krugman: ‘zombie fallacies’
NYTimes: “Wage-Price Flexibility in a Liquidity Trap, Again Again Again” by Paul Krugman: One of the frustrating things about macroeconomic discussion since the Great Recession struck is the prevalence...
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can’t ignore zombie economy: cnbc, nytimes, latimes
CNBC Guest Blog: “Can We Ignore the Zombie Economy?” by Michael A. Yoshikami, of Destination Wealth Management: American stock market continues to rally leaving investors to ask how is that possible...
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Magic Zombie School$
NYTimes “Tuition Aid From a Zombie Elf” By Brendan Spiegel is about grants given by Gamers Helping Gamers: a nonprofit organization founded by a group of successful young New Yorkers to assist a very...
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Dr. Schlozman and Zombie Lies
Hot off the heels of his lesson plans appearing on PBSnewshour, the Harvard zombie-neuroscientist, Dr. Steven Schlozman, has a “riff” in New York Times magazine: “The Harvard Doctor Who Accidentally...
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Some recent zombies
It’s been busy and I have been remiss in my “zombie” hunting. Here’s a round-up of some stuff I’ve missed recently: Fox had zombie hackers – weeeeeeeeeeeeeee: AmericanLiveWire: “Was Fox News Hacked?...
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