Hope your team is better than mine.
Archives for December 2012
Forty Year Legacy of Nothing
I was born two years before Unsafe at Any Speed was published. The first car I rode in had no seatbelts and a metal dash. The next car had seatbelts, and a padded dash, but nobody wore the seatbelts, because back then nobody did, besides which they were inconvenient to use. The next car had …
Exclusive Must Credit NBC Interview with Obama
Exclusive must credit NBC: DAVID GREGORY: You said that Republicans have a hard time saying yes. Particularly to you. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. DAVID GREGORY: What is it about you, Mr. President, that you think is so hard to say yes to? You fill in the blanks on that one. Also, too: DAVID GREGORY: Is …
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Sunday Morning Open Thread: You Go, Joe
One starfish at a time, Mr. Vice-President: Biden Is Back for a 2nd Run at Gun Limits … A president intent on pressing Congress to restrict access to high-powered guns could hardly find a more seasoned figure to take charge of the effort. Mr. Biden, who owns two shotguns, brings decades of experience and plenty …
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Of rags and silks, a costume
I oppose the Citizens United decision and would like to see it reversed. But…if it can’t be, this is a good way for liberals to take advantage of dark money: In the waning days of Montana’s hotly contested Senate race, a small outfit called Montana Hunters and Anglers, launched by liberal activists, tried something drastic. …
On Being Safe, with Guns
There’s been some really interesting arguments about guns in America in the Atlantic recently. James Fallows has repeatedly discussed “Gun Safety, Not Gun Control“: .. I will henceforth and only talk about “gun safety” as a goal for America, as opposed to “gun control.” I have no abstract interest in “controlling” someone else’s ability to …
Open Thread
My football team is sucking in their Bowl game and my desktop pc just blew up. Cuz I have two grand just lying around to buy another. Might go on the bottle early.