You probably heard that Donald Rumsfeld has his knickers in a twist over Krugman’s 9/11 post: After reading Krugman’s repugnant piece on 9/11, I cancelled my subscription to the New York Times this AM. Normally, I don’t care much about pissing conservatives off, they’ll always find something to be pissed off about anyway, but in …
Guess that’s why they broke and you’re so paid
When there was that mini-kerfuffle about whether Romney doubled the size of his house or quadrupled, one of you emailed me something where some rightie was saying “that created more jobs than Obama ever did”. If you take Steve M’s Republican-primary-as-gangsta-rap to to its logical conclusion, shouldn’t Romney be bragging about his wealth? Why not …
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My heart’s in a whirl
As you, I am fascinated by the sexualization of conservative leaders. Why does it happen? I do know why there is no liberal analog of this, it’s because liberal men are pencil-necked geeks and liberal women are frumpy ball-busters. Jim Newell fills us in on this year’s edition of the annual Great American Conservative Women …
Class warfare
They like it in Yurp just as much as they do here: George Osborne’s austerity programme will cut the living standards of Britain’s families by more than 10% over the next three years as those on the lowest incomes suffer most from the tax increases and spending cuts designed to reduce the budget deficit. A …
Song of the week
As always, from Can’t Explain. —– Kid Creole & the Coconuts, “Dear Addy” (1981) I like just about all the Kid Creole & the Coconuts stuff, particularly through the ’80s悠 saw them live in 1986 and they were way, way better than I had any right to expect. Probably Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places is …
So grams I had to measure
I spent a lot time trying to figure out what that whole Ron Paul “I can buy a gallon of gas for a silver dime” thing was about. It turns out that a silver dime was 2.5 grams and at a price of $42.36 per troy ounce, 2.5 grams (the weight of a silver dime) …
Knock ’em dead
Elisa Elias Isquith on the death squads last night: The audience seemed to be saying to the “liberal media” member, Brian Williams, that they approved of the death penalty—but not hesitantly or with reservation. No, they support the policy with full enthusiasm, enthusiasm of the sort that finds the very premise of Williams’s question to …