Via Twitter buddy and MIT colleague/Technology Review publisher/editor Jason Pontin, I got myself steered to this brutal, elegantly clear account of the core theft at the heart of the “crisis” implied by the federal debt. Writing at the website of the literary mag n+1, Stephen Squibb lays it out: Letting one dollar equal a trillion, …
Archives for August 2011
Will I still see suspicion in your eyes?
Chunky Bobo argues that defense hawks have been caught in a trap by the trigger mechanism in the debt ceiling bill: There’s plenty to be said about the details of the debt ceiling deal, but let’s start with the provision that’s making conservatives unhappiest: The use of broad defense cuts as part of the “trigger” …
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Maybe you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away, and held for ransom
On nearly all political issues that come up, when I scan the comments here and read some of the other internets, I can find a position or strategy that I agree with. Not so with the current Republican hostage situation. Debt ceiling passage or not, a hostage situation will continue in some form or another. …
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Joe Nocera is shrill
More of this: You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them. These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy …
Some Good News from the House
Every so often, something good happens on the floor of the House.
“A Man-Statue Made of Overripe Ham”
Thus is Rupert Murdoch described by a Guardian commentor to Keith Olbermann’s victory jig post, “How I was hired – and fired – by Rupert Murdoch“. The Dirty Digger seems to have lived by the old Sicilian maxim that it is better to be feared than loved, but not even a Sicilian can outlast a …
Doug Lamborn (R-Co): Tar Baby? Really?
Perfunctory Outrage THis is one of those posts that I’m jotting off quickly simply because not writing it means I’ve become immune to the racist bullshit being spewed hither and yon. I meant to write about this nonsense 5 hours ago, but I couldn’t muster up the energy. So I went to a bar …