Day two and a half of a cold that started a couple days ago when I foolishly slept with my windows open and the temperature dropped 40 degrees and I woke up freezing at 6 am. No fever, but a sinus headache and a sore throat- the sinuses are so clogged my neti pot hanged …
Archives for September 2009
If Adolph Hitler flew into today…
He would probably be surprised by the central role he and his fellow Nazis play in contemporary American public dialog: as a cultural touchstone in the health care debate, as a point of comparison for CIA interrogation techniques, and now as reluctant warriors: Because Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years …
It’s Luke Russert’s world, we’re just living in it
Interesting back and forth about Jenna’s “Today” show gig in a WaPo chat:: Florida Chick: Dreadful pandering, this hiring of Jenna Bush for the Today show. It wasn’t enough that she was green-lighted for two books? With two years teaching experience and an unimpressive academic record? She would be lucky to get the teaching job …
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How long til he gets his own show on Fox?
This stuff should be teabagger cable catnip: At one point in his 18-year career in the House, Traficant was stripped of all his committee assignments by his fellow Democrats after he voted for Illinois Republican Dennis Hastert as Speaker. When the local U.S. Attorney’s office began investigating him in 1997, he charged that he was …
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Suckers
Tax Day Tea Parties raison d’être: On April 15th, hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered in more than 800 cities to voice their opposition to out of control spending at all levels of government. Organized in all 50 states by Americans from all walks of life, these “tea parties” were a true grassroots protest of …
Where’s the Street-wise Hercules to Fight the Rising Odds?
This was nausea inducing: So George Will, who strongly supported the Iraq war before he strongly opposed it, is now strongly opposing the Afghanistan war after he once strongly supported it. In Will’s words, “forces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, …
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Deeper and Deeper
Meanwhile: Reporting from Washington – U.S. officials are planning to add as many as 14,000 combat troops to the American force in Afghanistan by sending home support units and replacing them with “trigger-pullers,” Defense officials say. The move would beef up the combat force in the country without increasing the overall number of U.S. troops, …