tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post432468905797239735..comments2024-03-02T09:41:35.809-08:00Comments on Donkeylicious - A Blog by Neil Sinhababu and Nicholas Beaudrot: Nate Silver Vs. David SirotaNeil Sinhababuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03249327186653397250noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post-91196376167643860572009-02-17T13:19:00.000-08:002009-02-17T13:19:00.000-08:00I'm waiting by my mailbox for Baseball Prospectus ...I'm waiting by my mailbox for Baseball Prospectus 2009. I will devour it. By the time I am done, Nate will have done a couple of more posts and given a clear-eyed evaluation of the lay of the land of the left. He may not be right, but it will hang together. If this is the arena he works in between elections and when his real work of baseball forecasting calms down, I'll be happy.<BR/><BR/>And Giordino is a stitch when he wants to be.driphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182879631506288757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post-14937789733433454662009-02-16T22:23:00.000-08:002009-02-16T22:23:00.000-08:00I think it's important to keep the ideas of policy...I think it's important to keep the ideas of policy and strategy separate here. Nate's chart really relates to strategy. The terms applied to a "rational progressive" easier fit Silver allies Booman and Al Giordano, and those guys are pretty far to the left, as far, if not farther, than Sirota. Now, Silver messes this up by slipping some policy positions into his post, which confuses things, but I think the delineation he sets up of the rift you are seeing going on is pretty accurate.corvushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16130864309857352151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post-6015891586752961442009-02-16T21:37:00.000-08:002009-02-16T21:37:00.000-08:00OK, so this is pretty funny: Sirota's responce cal...OK, so this is pretty funny: Sirota's responce calls Nate an infant. I wonder where he got that from. Couldn't be from his old nemisis, Al Giordano, could it? Sounds rather like the "Children's Table." Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post-85763877872004575302009-02-16T21:08:00.000-08:002009-02-16T21:08:00.000-08:00Except for odd comments about Marxism, Nate's seco...Except for odd comments about Marxism, Nate's second attempt is much better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post-51253793094138147832009-02-16T19:50:00.000-08:002009-02-16T19:50:00.000-08:00Yeah, this was an uncharactoristically bad post by...Yeah, this was an uncharactoristically bad post by Nate. He also really shouldn't bother with the likes of Sirota who is a good illustration of "the less you know, the less you know it" principle. <BR/><BR/>For a less polite, but more substantive attack on Sirota, see Al Giordano:<BR/>http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/partisanship-trap<BR/><BR/>and here:<BR/>http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/free-math-class-childrens-table<BR/><BR/>Not very nice, but very funny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post-67665167421043041202009-02-16T13:53:00.000-08:002009-02-16T13:53:00.000-08:00Great post, really funny. I would only disagree th...Great post, really funny. I would only disagree that Sirota's response wasn't at all reasonable and thoughtful. Of course, it probably is relative to his other writings.<BR/><BR/>We can probably come up with examples of the far left being empirically more correct than the 6 year old decision to invade Iraq. The financial crisis? Sarah Palin's popularity? Lieberman being a jerk? Not to say we are always right, but the "purely fact based centrists" certainly have their own blinders.<BR/><BR/>More of a question of what can we do to bring someone we have so much respect for back into the fold.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14667147687700902147noreply@blogger.com