Everyone should take a minute and go read this excellent Jon Chait piece in the TNR from a little over a year ago, The Feast of the Wingnuts. When finished, go read Bill Kristol. Enjoy.
Archives for November 2008
Citigroup on the Dole
So now we are bailing out Citigroup: Federal regulators approved a radical plan to stabilize Citigroup in an arrangement in which the government could soak up billions of dollars in losses at the struggling bank, the government announced late Sunday night. So now the jackasses who extend credit to people who should not have it, …
ZOMG – Obama’s Getting a Very Secure Limo!
Linked by Drudge – no surprise there – a story about Obama’s new presidential limousine: The Obamobile being prepared for the president-elect is said to be a monster gas-guzzler made by General Motors, the troubled car giant. It will look like a black Cadillac but is built like a tank. A spy photographer who tracks …
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Home At Last
As much as I liked California, the flight home was epic suck. For whatever reason, despite reserving an aisle seat and confirming an aisle seat as I checked in, I was nonetheless given a ticket that, when I boarded the plane, put me squarely crammed into a window seat. At 6’1″ and having lost my …
Take It Patiently
Even if you support prosecuting the entire damned Bush administration for torture and any of ten thousand other crimes, a 9/11-style commission is clearly the right thing to do. A decision this consequential could make the country practically ungovernable if the administration imposes it on the nation from the top down. Actually, let me correct …
Society Without God
Turns out, societies that have more non-believers murder and rape each other on a much lower level than we here in America: In his new book, Society Without God, Phil Zuckerman looks at the Danes and the Swedes—probably the most godless people on Earth. They don’t go to church or pray in the privacy of …
Talking Turkey
Read this. Then read Jim Henley’s point about the recent Palin/turkey silliness. The barbaric “execution” and “assassination” of those turkeys is the model for how these animals should be raised for food. And since we are talking about turkeys, this Daniel Larsion takedown of assorted foolishness is not to be missed.