If you missed it, you need to go watch this Frontline last night on the history of credit card use in the United States. My libertarian instincts eschew any regulation whatsoever, but it this show and my own personal experiences with credit card companies (inexplicably having my APR jump from 9.9% to 24.9%, when I …
Archives for February 2005
SOTU
I know this will get me kicked out of the good Republicans club, but I have no desire to watch the President gie the SOTU tonight. The whole event is so damned predictable- Republicans will gush, Democrats will groan, pundits will pedantically pick apart the speech and alternately gush and groan. Plus, let’s face it- …
A Waste of Trees
No, Max. It isn’t political warfare. People who have viewpoints like this need to be attacked, vilified, and humiliated, and there is nothing wrong with sane people distancing themselves from them: Train wreck of an election – By James Carroll | February 1, 2005 IN THINKING about the election in Iraq, my mind keeps jumping …
Sheer Idiocy
Glenn links to this piece in the Washington Post arguing who gets credit for the Iraqi elections, but fails to mention the egregious final sentence of the story. In short, the piece discusses in detail who deserves the credit, and my short reaction is – the voters and the soldiers. Domestically, the Democrats will never …
Must Read Post of the Day
Matt Yglesias has an excellent post up dissecting the foolishness of Tom Friedman’s column proposing conservation as a means of promoting Democracy.
The Daily Dish
It appears that Andrew Sullivan is taking a break from blogging, so a major source of my material will soon dry up. Woe is moe. But then again, maybe he isn’t leaving. Even his farewell post is riddled with the same lack of clarity we have grown to know and love: After much hemming and …
Idiot of the Day
Senator Mark Dayton, and Powerline had the gruesome details.