Not enough flaming around here. * The best PC you can buy is a Mac running Boot Camp. * Every good comic of the last fifteen years should apologize to Alan Moore for stealing his shit. * Religion only happens because the human brain’s capacity for pattern recognition is slightly overdeveloped. * On that topic, …
Archives for December 2008
Question
Why does anybody care how many books Karl Rove says that George Bush read? Rove lies about everything. Bush cannot speak extemporaneously about the Bible, supposedly his favorite book. Laugh at it and move on.
Up, The New Down
In his end of year retrospective, John Hawkins lists the seven biggest political blunders of the year. They are as follows: 7.) Pundits blowing the outcome of the democratic primary in New Hampshire. 6.) Eliot Spitzer 5.) Blagojevich 4.) Rev. Wright 3.) The Edwards affair 2.) Hillary’s sniper fire story 1.) McCain bailing out the …
Enough Stupid Arguments About Israel
Often simply naming something makes it easier to see and understand the next time. Take the argument that pressing crisis X demands some sort of immediate response is sufficient by itself to endorse reaction Y. This is plainly ridiculous. The ways that a stupid or thoughtless person can make a given crisis worse almost defy …
Open Thread
I have am in the end of the year blogging doldrums. Jeebus, you pedantic sobs.
Not A Fan, But Come On
I am not really a fan of Caroline Kennedy, and not because I have some reason to dislike her, but because I simply know very little about her, but I have to say I have found the pile-on against her the last few weeks to be really quite distasteful. Another snippy piece in the NY …
Starbursts, Redux
Glenn has a big piece up on David Gregory’s MTP performance yesterday, but ignores the spectacular display by Rich Lowry, which included this gem: Lowry: I just want to go back to Richard’s point about the no attacks on U.S. soil. U.S. soil is a big caveat. I mean, that is a key thing. And …