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Sam Power’s husband Cass Sunstein has been offered a job as head of the Obama regime’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. This should be interesting. A few years ago, Joe Heath said to me something like “hyperbolic discounting will be to the next decade what the collective action problem was for the nineties.” 

This piece from the Sunday NYTimes has an extremely dorky first half, while the second half is actually a very insightful look at the ratcheting up of demands from blogging and twittering.