Via the good folks at Pruning Shears, this story which just made my day: Ron Grassi says he thought he had retired five years ago after a 35-year career as a trial lawyer. Now Grassi, 68, has set up a war room in his Tahoe City, California, home to single-handedly take on Standard & Poor’s, …
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Happy Mission Accomplished Day!
In the spirit of patriotism and self-indulgence, I’m sharing with you an exchange I had with the Times’ public editor about Adam Nagourney’s claim that Bush never actually said “mission accomplished”. —————— Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:36:11 -0400 From: XXXXX Reply-To: XXXXX To: [email protected] Subject: recent Nagourney article Dear Mr. Okrent, In his article …
White man’s burden
Halperin on Souter replacement: White Men Need Not Apply So hard to be a white man in a white man’s world. I’m not sure how I make it sometimes, personally.
At Least He Didn’t Insult Rush
Too funny: Several members of the Republican National Committee are miffed at Newt Gingrich for claiming that they’re a small bunch of egomaniacs who need to be coddled by the party chairman. “Newt needs to take a breath,” New Jersey committeeman David Norcross told CNN. *** Defending Steele’s tumultuous start, Gingrich said the chairman might …
Good news, bitches
The opening words of Mike Allen’s piece on Souter’s retirement: Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s planned retirement touches off a fierce fight between the parties that could reinvigorate moping Republicans
All Souter All The Time
Funny- just the other day I was thinking to myself, what President Obama could probably use now is a really bitter Supreme Court confirmation fight. Also, I predict we will soon see the official death of the “up or down vote.”
All news is good news
JMM notes that many are saying that the retirement of Justice Souter, like all other earthly events, is good news for Republicans. I expect to hear the phrase “a chance to get their mojo back” a lot over the next few weeks. Now, logic dictates there is no way that it is good news to …