If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.