Yesterday, Matt Yglesias linked to this NY Times story about Hispanic support for Bush AND big government and stated: The NY Times takes a look at Latino public opinion and discovers that Hispanics want the government to be bigger, but they also like Bush’s tax cuts. My understanding is that this combination of opinions is
Archives for August 2003
Bizarro World
I never thought I would say this, but thank goodness Atrios is back from vacation. Whatever you think of his politics (the word odious comes to my mind), he is a HELLUVA lot better than the Atriettes that were substituting for him. Welcome back.
She Aims To Please
In an effort to prove she has not yet hit rock bottom, Mo-Do wastes the priceless NY Times Op-Ed space on a stream of consciousness that flitters from a defense of gay marriage to a make-over for the top players in the Bush administration: When it came to the president’s possibilities, he got really excited: …
Great Joke
Matt Welch, for his birthday the other day, asked readers to submit a joke as a present. My favorite is from Michael Totten: A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar. The bartender says “What, is this some kind of a joke?” BTW- Mr. Totten is off blogspot and you should redirect …
WMD?
I’ll take this report of WMD finds with the usual hockey-puck sized grain o’ salt: group of Swedish researchers, travelling to Iraq without the knowledge of the Swedish government, is announcing that they have found missiles for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in a house in Baghdad. The finds will be presented in a forthcoming …
Talk About A Bad Day
This has to suck: Thieves did more than just break into B.J. Miller’s tiny 10-by-20-foot rural home and make off with a few precious items. They took the whole house. Authorities say it probably took thieves at least a day to take apart Miller’s small prefabricated home outside San Francisco. Its well pump and generator …
Solaris
I just saw Solaris, starring George Clooney, and I think it was one of the best sci-fi flicks I have seen in years. Why did I not hear anything about it? I highly recommend it.