I’m not a huge fan of Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn (he’s no Pam Iorio). But to his credit, he was able to imagine tens of thousands of pissed-off citizens, drunken yahoos, strip-club happy-hour ejectees, belligerent teabaggers, endlessly circling Hoveround grannies and assorted other malcontents milling around the RNC — with guns! — and recognize that …
Archives for May 2012
Bridge Over Troubled Logic
Kaplan Daily’s official Obama scold, Glenn Kessler, has dropped yet another “four Pinocchios” on the President over bridges in my state of Kentucky. “I sent them a jobs bill that would have put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work repairing our roads, our bridges, schools, transit systems, along with saving the jobs …
A Factoid On Which To Chew
The US ranks second — to mighty Luxembourg! — in per-capita meat consumption, per a review of 2007 data. (h/t Jag Bhalla) I actually find the numbers both surreal and plausible. By these numbers, Americans in 2007 ate about 275 pounds of meat and poultry each — 125.4 kg, to be precise — or about …
Mr. Backlash
Just like Erik Erickson (find the link yourself), James Joyner (who’s now writing for The New Republic, whocoodanode), says: I’m not sure I’m buying this narrative. Yes, Grenell is gay. Yes, some right wingers were angry that a gay man was named Romney’s foreign policy spokesman. On the other hand, this man was openly gay …
This morning’s mailbag
I know it shouldn’t surprise me, and yet somehow it still does. These fuckers will say and do anything because they have no shame.
Headlines
Tabloid headlines don’t get much better than this one, from the Mirror, which apparently has an owner who is fit to run a newspaper. “Gosh, Gladys, did you know that the guy who refused to pay a prostitute $800 graduated from the local Christian college?” I’m probably the only one who thinks this is funny, …
David Brooks Is Always Wrong, Again–Both Sides Do It Edition/Tricky Dick Bonus Feature.
If I wrote for The New York Times it would piss me off beyond measure that I had to share type with David Brooks. I know from direct, personal conversation that actual Timesmen (or at least one of them) don’t feel that way — there’s a pervasive issue there with the self-conceit of a newsroom …