That's what hacks do.

Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks

I can direct better than most of the hacks I work for.

The Harvard economist Robert Barro, writing in The Wall Street Journal , recently made an intelligent argument against America s fiscal stimulus. After wading through the drivel of ethics free Republican hacks and knowledge free academic hacks who claim, one way or another, that the basic principles of economics make it impossible for government spending decisions to alter the flow of economic activity, reading Barro comes as a great relief.

Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the 40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head mounted 3 D viewer.

Dr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital all low tech hacks and donated supplies drives home the challenge of doing basic health care there.

So what's happening over time in life is that the ways in which you generate these new ideas, these new hacks, are increasing. And the real tricks are ways in which you kind of explore the way of exploring.

Right. Can we do this again from the top, except use some people with a vague hint of talent, instead of just six utter boobs like we brought in last time, real estate hacks of the kind who usually plan our cities.

In other words, a host state that enters a foreign mission without consent (none was given in my time as EU Ambassador in Washington, DC, from 2004 to 2009), or hacks into its computer system, would be acting in blatant violation of the Convention.

These are hacks, and if we looked at the general shape of the approaches to hacking life there are, current consensus, six kingdoms. Six different broad approaches the plants, the animals, the fungi, the protests the little things the bacteria and the Archaea bacteria. The Archaeas.

On the Republican side, hacks, spin masters, and many people who ought to have known better suddenly developed an extraordinary appreciation for something called the CPS Household Survey of Employment as a supposed guide to month to month changes in the labor market. The CPS survey was never designed to do this, but it offered the most favorable gloss on the Bush administration's dreadful record on employment.

One result of this global monetary policy activism has been a rebellion among pseudo economists and market hacks in recent years. This assortment of Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics has repeatedly warned that such a massive increase in global liquidity would lead to hyperinflation, the US dollar s collapse, sky high gold prices, and the eventual demise of fiat currencies at the hands of digital krypto currency counterparts.

On the Democratic side, the same sorts of hacks and PR men focused like a laser beam on the bad employment news of the George W. Bush years, ignoring the good news about output and productivity. And, again, Republicans responded tendentiously, by focusing on the unemployment rate rather than on the job numbers as if it were a good thing that the lousy labor market since 2001 has artificially depressed the number of people looking for work.