There’s little doubt that George Bush looks like a broken man at this point. But the larger question remains: what will become of him when his term is over? Bush talked about making “ridiculous money” on the lecture circuit but his biographer, Richard Draper, deems that unlikely in the short term: “My feeling is that …
Edward R. Murrow would be proud
Joe the Plumber on war: “the media should be abolished.” When I was in grad school, a friend of mine talked a lot about the William Shattner version of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”. After all the discussion, I thought there was no way it could surprise me with its awfulness, given my expectations, …
Annoying ads
I keep seeing that IBM “math can make the world better” ad on tv during the football game. The second guy on the ad says: Math can help predict financial markets. You’d think they might have edited that out after all this stuff.
Interesting discussion at FDL
There’s an interesting discussion going on at the FireDogLake book salon about Andrew Gelman’s book Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: In fact, for all the talk in recent years about working class conservatives and latte liberals, Gelman shows convincingly that rich people remain loyal Republicans while those further down the economic ladder …
Blah blah Blago
I realize he’s trying to sound like a man of the people here, but this from Broder is telling: When and if Roland Burris claims the Senate seat from Illinois formerly occupied by Barack Obama, it will represent the greatest climb-down by an incoming president since Sam Nunn turned Bill Clinton around on the issue …
Tenny thuggin’
This is a slap in the face to Rudyard Kipling or maybe Rudyard’s just been thrown under the bus: He (Blagojevich) ended the news conference by quoting a poem from “Ulysses” by Lord Alfred Tennyson, ending with: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”Blagojevich was arrested Dec. 9 and accused of scheming …
First they came for Joe the Plumber
Michelle Malkin speaks truth to power: If a community organizer can be president and a Saturday Night Live comedian can be a U.S. senator, why can’t a plumber be a reporter? […] As to the media hounds now braying at the idea of hiring celebrities for the sake of publicity, which network was it that …