When did there start being Fox News stores? Is this one of those things, like the amero, where I’m the last one to know?
Archives for November 2010
First Out of the Gate
In case you were wondering which of the beltway boys would be the first to rush to the defense of Tom DeLay, the wait is over. Those of you who had your money on Fred Hiatt’s op-ed page win once again. Don’t even bother looking for a comparable editorial dedicated to Don Siegalman.
Give ’em enough thread
Buried amidst the minutiae of the Wikileaks dump is the shocking revelation that Jeane Kirkpatrick loved this advertisement. Talk about anything but the TSA.
The V-chip and school uniform phase of this presidency
Except that no one got a wage cut freeze when Clinton wasted the nation’s time on that stuff. I’m an Obot and I’m all about baking cookies and standing by my man when we’ve got a competent Democratic president, but this is bullshit and it won’t satisfy the teatards anyway.
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Too Legit to Quit
Thought this was interesting: Joey Burger was 14 when his naturalist parents moved from Santa Cruz to settle in the coastal forest of Humboldt County. Local hippies and homesteaders welcomed the new kid in the woods. They schooled him in the regional art — growing marijuana. “It was never looked upon as a bad thing,” …
Ice-cold douche
Now I really am bored with the TSA and it sounds as though many of you are too. So I’m passing on this excellent post by Brad DeLong about how extreme today’s neo-Hooverists are, even (maybe especially) in comparison with their supposed idol, Milton Friedman: Hayek’s fellow countryman, Joseph Schumpeter, went further: “Gentlemen!” he announced …
The TSA, ctd.
To DougJ’s pointL: no Blackwater is not the best example of private airport security. The best example is the private airport security which existed for decades prior to 9/11. We don’t need an analogy. The airlines were in charge of security – not the government. Blackwater, on the other hand, is a private military contractor …