More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The invention of "climate risk" - politically brilliant but fatally flawed.

-  The real Watergate scandal. Reminder that the screenplay to All the President's Men was written by William Goldman (who was not exactly known for any documentaries). (HT Execupundit)

- How the Chiefs landed perhaps the most lopsided deal in NFL history. Great googly-moogly.

- From the archives: the origin of the use of "om" in meditation.

Poor Charlie's Almanac

"There, an aggressive subordinate made an extreme proposal for advancing Republican interests through the use of some combination of whores and a gigantic yacht. When this ridiculous request was rejected, the subordinate backed off, in gracious concession to merely asking for consent to a burglary, and the attorney general went along. [Robert] Cialdini believes that subconscious reciprocation tendency thus became one important cause of the resignation of a United States president in the Watergate debacle, and so do I." - Charlie Munger Poor Charlie's Almanac

Never heard this explanation of the cause of Watergate before. 

Watergate and FISA-gate

Victor Davis Hanson does a fine job explaining why FISA-gate is basically Watergate turned upside down.

It is amusing to me that one of the lasting achievements of the Obama Administration may end up being to make Nixon look better in the eyes of history.

Thanks Obama?