Via the Washington Monthly, this Jan Brewer opening statement is terrifying: It’s the Palinization of politics. Sharon Angle, Jan Brewer, just go down the list. Ignorant know-nothings who spew the right-wing talking points, refuse to take questions from the press, and when off-script, are seen for the train-wreck that they are. Yet half the country …
Archives for September 2010
Andy Bacevich Is On The Rag
As usual, he gets it about right: So the Americans are bowing out, having achieved few of the ambitious goals articulated in the heady aftermath of Baghdad’s fall. The surge, now remembered as an epic feat of arms, functions chiefly as a smokescreen, obscuring a vast panorama of recklessness, miscalculation, and waste that politicians, generals, …
She’s Amphibious!
“Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter. I’m amphibious.” – Basketball player Charles Shackleford. *** Most people are content with one field, but not the Business and Economics Editor at the Atlantic. She has decided to branch out and be wrong about multiple fields of scholarship: But still, every party has the red-faced, humorless, easily-offended …
Strange Rangers
I finally watched You Don’t Know Jack, a relatively sympathetic Jack Kevorkian biopic, last night. Perhaps that’s why the crazy twists and turns in the Julian Assange story make me think that he and Kevorkian have something in common. Both are loners and misfits who relied on the kindness of believers to get on in …
Early Morning Open Thread: Squid-Cloud of Butt-Hurt
Dave Weigel at Slate suggested that the Koch brothers should embrace their new notoriety and strut their anti-populist, anti-progressive, anti-environmental credentials proudly. What’s the point, Weigel seemed to think, of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on everything from climate-change denialism at the Smithsonian to astroturf “Tea Party” groups if you’re too shy to stand …
Early Morning Open Thread: Squid-Cloud of Butt-HurtPost + Comments (69)
The roots are deep
Thank the FSM it is September! The intense stupid of August will soon begin to fade like a bad Boone’s Farm Apple Wine hangover. And it may have one bottle of Boone’s Farm too many that destroyed the brain cells of the cavalcade of fools marching to the dog-whistles of Beck, Palin and the other …
It Must Be Your Lucky Night
Glad I finally remembered to recharge the camera battery, because the animals are in full-on pose mode tonight. Lily looking adorable (she can’t help it!): I simply can not tell you how much I love this dog. She’s the one I am happiest to see when i get home, she is the one that I …