It’s feeling a lot like 1992 right now. It’s also feeling a lot like 1980. But which parallel is closer? Is Barack Obama going to be a Ronald Reagan of the left, a president who fundamentally changes the country’s direction? Or will he be just another Bill Clinton?
Paul Krugman
What. The. Fuck. After listening to Krugman [...]
Found drumming (and Nixon coming)
Learning from Postville
Read Jon Tevlin’s excellent in-depth article, There’s something bad in this town.
Rabbi Allen of Beth Jacob Congregation knew about Agriprocessors’ problems a long time before the raid. He knew the most recent CEO, Sholom Rubashkin, who for a time lived in St. Paul’s Highland Park before moving to Postville. After reading an article critical of [...]
Phony degrees, missing guns, & alleged allegations
My, what a difference the internet has made. Thousands rioted in China over the weekend as accusations leaked out of a rural area and onto the internet that an official’s nephew had killed a young girl. And the NY Times takes a look at the impact of Vloggers on this year’s presidential race.
The internet has [...]
Friday night music set (a little late)
Go here and follow the instructions.
Taking the Cathedral away from the Papists
The College Cost Reduction and Access Act is about to kick in, and it forgives a portion of public service employees’ student loans. How much? Well, since they insist on ten years of payments, I’d say not much.
What a fucking racket. How do we justify college costs that cannot be paid back in ten years [...]
Genius grant winner dissects Obama=Muslim meme
I’ll acknowledge that I’m prone to fulminating, a condition never-married men are prone to in their declining years. One recent fulmination focused on an insanely wrong-headed dollop of gibberish from Edward N. Luttwak who used the NY Times to advance a novel and immediately discredited theory that you can be “born a Muslim.”
A new Times [...]
Porn-o-Rama, like the poor, will be with us always
Kos points out that the SCOTUS “fix” for campaign financing is just another short-sighted goose to the body politic on behalf of a specific lawmaker, in this case Mitch McConnell.
Actually, nothing this Supreme Court does has anything to do with Constitutional law. They’re 100% about jerking off them that brought them to the dance (because [...]
Krauthammer: Obama worse than Clintons
Harumph. This morning everyone’s saying last night’s blockbuster trade was a good deal for us.
All I know is that now we have five Euro-American players, one over the NBA limit. Worst of all, Mr. Haircut is the best of the lot:
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Back in May, Michael Masters, a hedge fund manager, made a big splash when he [...]
A third of Arizonans unsure who to vote for
Incredible. In John McCain’s home state of Arizona, 34% of all eligible voters are still undecided!
That’s OK. I’m sure once McCain announces Pawlenty as his running mate, all those undecideds will come home to John.
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If they ever get their way on this one, I for one would cheerfully fly the TSA skies.
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It’s enough to make you want to buy a gun
The Supreme Court has reinterpreted the 2nd Amendment to make it say what it most obviously does not say: you now have a Constitutional right to carry lethal force on your hip.
John Paul Stevens points out why this 5-4 decision will be reversed just as soon as we can impeach and remove the remaining Scalia [...]
