Amy Sullivan and a bunch of other theocons write that it’s unfair that some pedophile priests have to go to jail when Roman Polanski doesn’t. That seems absurd to me: The new 2,600-page report on physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in Catholic-run Irish schools is “a map of an Irish hell,” said the Irish Times …
Archives for September 2009
More Liberal Fascism
You know who else hosted an Olympics? Hitler. Just saying…
Who Could Have Thunk It?
I’m sure you are all shocked: Conservatives were quick to insist that the near-riot — the first of many town-hall mobs that would dominate the headlines in August — was completely spontaneous. The protesters didn’t show up “because of some organized group,” Rick Scott, the head of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, told reporters. “They’re mad …
We are all Dan Riehl now?
A rather strange exchange in today’s Kaplan reporter Q&A: Blacksburg, Va.: Does the Right-Wing have so shame? –Was Census Worker Bill Sparkman A Child Predator? Was Census Worker Bill Sparkman A Child Predator? Ed O’Keefe: Note what this author says at the outset of his piece: “I have no idea what happened, but from the …
Green Shoots
Here: Federal regulators expect bank failures to cost the deposit insurance fund about $100 billion in the next four years and the fund to fall to a negative balance this month. That is higher than an earlier estimate of $70 billion in failure costs through 2013. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation made the projections Tuesday …
I smell a reality show
Kaplan is hiring (via MY): Use the entry form to send us a short opinion essay (400 words or less) pegged to a topic in the news and an additional paragraph (100 words or less) on yourself and why you should win. Entries will be judged on the basis of style, intelligence and freshness of …
Open Thread
Talk about anything except the !@+$#*&$^ Steelers.