Sullivan points to the following as the headline of the year: Is this a lucrative field? Is this one of those green jobs we keep hearing so much about? This sentence kills me: “The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys.” All I can think of is this:
Archives for August 2010
We don’t need no stinking majority
This (from the Hill via NoMoreMisterNiceGuy) isn’t getting as much attention as I thought it would: He (Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy) suggested that if that happens some Democrats might not support Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to be speaker, and might instead opt to vote with Republicans to pursue their priorities. … “Why do you think that …
Return of the king
Greg Sargent has a good run-down of the reasons why Democrats want Dubya to play a starring role in November’s elections. In sum, it’s because voters hate George W. Bush. I’m of the opinion that the Bush book will get some airtime right before the election and that this will hurt Republicans, though perhaps only …
The world is a vampire
We are ruled by sociopathic ‘tweens (via): A few days earlier I had been forwarded a memo written by the hedge fund chief Tom Barrack to his underlings at Colony Capital. In it, he described a “personal breakthrough” he had made as a result of reading the Twilight books. “I feel renewed and refreshed, having …
Unspoken Word
Please just kill me: Chelsea Clinton isn’t the first presidential daughter who has tried to keep private the details of her wedding day. “I feel that marriage vows are sacred, and I hope that mine will be spared the hurly-burly attending a news event,” Margaret Truman said before her 1956 nuptials in Missouri. At least …
By the time they get to Phoenix
Mexican kidnappers are now bringing their hostages to Phoenix. So says John Kyl: KYL: Phoenix is the — it is a very large source of kidnapping. It’s called the kidnapping capital of the United States because the illegal immigrants who are brought to Phoenix for distribution throughout the country are held in drop houses, and …
Gross Indifference
Kthug points out the shocking fact that no one seems to care about unemployment: Not long ago, anyone predicting that one in six American workers would soon be unemployed or underemployed, and that the average unemployed worker would have been jobless for 35 weeks, would have been dismissed as outlandishly pessimistic — in part because …