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Narwhal Attack!

1. I have spent the past hour trying to determine if Ellen Page of Juno (and INCEPTION!) fame is gay. According to an SNL skit in 2008 the answer is yes. She is a confirmed ladyist.
2. Megan McArdle...No...Talk about your wedding, start preparing a response to DeLong. Anything but that.
3. Here-

   I don’t buy this at all. It’s clearly an accounting gimmick, but DeLong suggests it doesn’t matter because the massive Medicare savings in future decades will somehow wipe out these extra long-term care liabilities. So we keep making promises to cover more and more conditions in the future–promises made to specific people, and at the same time we keep promising that there will also be huge cuts in Medicare, many of them dubious or unspecified. When the Republicans suggested that the Dems might be planning to follow the European model, that is pull the plug on granny when the cost-benefit analysis says the procedure isn’t worth it, the Dems got all indignant, claiming the GOP was using scare tactics. They probably were. But I’m not scared about plugs being pulled, I’m scared the cost savings won’t materialize and we’ll end up with European-style taxes. Of course Krugman says there’s nothing wrong with that. I suppose he’s right, if you don’t mind a 25% cut in (PPP) per capita GDP. My hunch is that the American people won’t look at things that way.

4. If We Were Friends with John Paulson