After a brief gastritis-induced hiatus, Megan McArdle has resumed (via) her reign of terror at her new Daily Beast digs. FDR is a an “economic idiot” because shut up, that’s why. I liked this comment summing up glibertarian economic ideas: I’ve started to think that the whole point of Libertarian economics is to generate enough …
Archives for July 2012
You Mooks Know Who This Is Over Here?
It’s Chris Bag O’ Donuts, that’s freakin’ who it is here. Born under a bad sign with a blue moon in his eye. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, known for his candor, snapped at a reporter Saturday while taking issue with his question at a press conference. Reporters were told the governor would only answer …
Monday Morning Open Thread: Toxic Gasbags
(Jeff Danziger’s website) __ They say there’s a helium shortage, possibly because the Repubs were bloviating against “Obamacare” all weekend. Per Greg Sargent, at his Washington Post blog: …Pressed by Chris Wallace to say what he would do to insure the 30 million people who will get insurance under Obamacare, McConnell at first dodged the …
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Chew on This
I’m absolutely sound asleep. For some reason, Tunch decides to jump up on the right side of the bed, walk across my head, and wake me up. Normally, he sleeps on the left side of the bed on his pillow, but tonight, at 3:15, he decides the right side of the bed is his entry …
Late Night Open Thread
Just watched the second Newsroom episode, and thought it was better than the first. I really do not understand all the people panning it. *** Update *** Watching Friday’s Bill Maher since my power was out the other day, and Gavin Newsome is on. I like the guy, and agree with much of what he …
SCOTUS Insiders Confirm What I Already Told You
Me, the other day: That’s what I think happened. I think Roberts was initially going to vote with the other four and flinched, grabbing on to the tax argument lifeline. Jan Crawford, in a sprawling multi-page CBS news report that his been burning up memeorandum all day: Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the …
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Another Larry David Moment
So I was calling my friend, and I thought the person who answered was his 16 year old son Jonah- it sounded just like him. He has a habit of every time he answers his dad’s cell of screwing with me for three minutes before eventually turning the phone over, so I braced myself. Me: …