Ever Since Ezra Quoted Me…
July 17th, 2010 . by economistmom…I’ve been inundated with spam comments! Most have been captured by my spam blocker, but some have not. Just wanted to warn readers that if the normal defensive mechanisms break down (and they have big time a couple times in the past two years), I’ll have to put up thicker “screens.”
I guess with the good publicity (and THANKS very much, Ezra!) comes some undesirable (if only “automated”) attention! Not that I’m complaining. I’m just sayin’… 
Over the past week I’ve been home full time with my kids, which is why I haven’t been posting much. I have an overdue list of matters of fiscal-policy substance I’ve been wanting to write about, which I hope to get to next week when things are quiet for me on the home front.
I’ve also got a couple things coming up next week that some of you might be able to follow/listen to/attend:
- On Monday I do a live radio show (”Your Call”) with KALW public radio in San Francisco (91.7 on the dial) at 11 am PST (2 pm EST). I will be on with Mike Konczal from the (liberal/progressive) Roosevelt Institute who according to the radio producer will argue that we need more deficit spending, so the producer presumes it will be a “debate.” (Me thinks they are not aware of what got Ezra to quote me–and those many automatons to spam me.) You can listen live over the internet here. (Coincidentally, my daughter Emily is there in SF right now and will be there to tune into the show–if she cares to, I mean.)
- On Thursday I am on a panel at this Brookings Institution event where Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will discuss his “Roadmap” plan and where I will be one of the commentators to follow, where I am no doubt expected to take a very different, perhaps opposite, position from the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore–or from Heritage’s Stuart Butler, but Stuart and I have spoken on panels often in the past and really do not disagree much at all.
Hope you all have a good weekend in the meantime! And thanks for sticking with me even when I occasionally go quiet, busy with the other things in my life.
