Rethink.

Jay Cost, “Health Care Reform Has Endan­gered the Demo­c­ra­tic Major­ity” — I’d be inter­ested to see num­bers that find a Demo­c­ra­tic incum­bent une­lec­table purely because of his stance on health care. I sus­pect enough of us are aware of enti­tle­ments to know we can’t afford another enti­tle­ment, espe­cially not one this mas­sive. The more gen­eral …

John Flow­ers, “After a Thor­ough Bat­tery of Tests We Can Now Rec­om­mend “The News­pa­per” as The Best E-Reader on the Mar­ket” (h/t Josh) — from the arti­cle: The News­pa­per dis­play could be read at full size or, when flipped open, twice its nor­mal width. We also had no trou­ble read­ing copy when the dis­play was …

Robert Darn­ton, “A Repub­lic of Let­ters” — from the arti­cle: By enjoy­ing a short-term monop­oly on the pub­li­ca­tion of their writ­ings, authors would be encour­aged to share their ideas in print. How short should the term be? The copy­right act of 1790 set it at 14 years, renew­able once. The founders took this limit from …

Via Megan McAr­dle, two links to pic­tures of ATM card skim­mers — devices used to steal your credit card num­ber and PIN that not many peo­ple know much about: The Con­sumerist | Krebs on Secu­rity Doug Schoen, “Obama Poli­cies Turn­ing Off Vot­ers” — from the arti­cle: The Benen­son sur­vey shows that the administration’s approach is …

Megan McAr­dle, “How Much House Can I Afford?” — from the arti­cle: It’s fright­en­ing to know that the above cal­cu­la­tions, which don’t seem too strin­gent, are far, far tighter than those used by our rel­a­tively sober credit union.  We McSu­d­er­mans may be a fis­cally con­ser­v­a­tive peo­ple, but we Amer­i­cans clearly still aren’t. Kevin Carey, “What’s …