Unlike our gullible conservative and libertarian friends who got the vapors at the slightest bit of agitprop from the banking and credit card industry, Ron Lieber looked at the threats and has decided much the same thing I did: For months now, the card companies have been threatening to cut rewards programs sharply to make …
Beggars’ banquet
One of Sully’s stunt stand-ins published a bunch of emails from readers about RisottoGate, one from some idiot who said his parents liked soup when they were poor, so why should homeless people eat risotto, the others making the sensible comment that who cares if the food sounds fancy given that it may be cheap …
Pets Gone Galt!
Apparently our post this morning was just the tip of the iceberg. I’ve been inundated today with a large number of pets who have gone Galt. First, a rabbit: To be honest, I’m actually not sure if that rabbit has gone Galt or if it has merely gone down the curtain and joined the choir …
This Would Break My Heart
Headlining memeorandum, this story: Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds. About a third of the state’s voters would re-elect Reid if the 2010 election were held today, according to the poll, but …
In Before Adam
Things you won’t see at the creationism museum: The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a small, 47 million-year-old creature found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts praised the discovery for the level of detail it provided but …
Credit Card Reform
Passed and by a wide margin: The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to put new restrictions on the credit card industry, passing a bill whose backers say will make card-issuers spell out their terms in fewer words, using plain English, and treat customers more fairly. The 90-to-5 vote, following a 357-to-70 vote in the House …
The New Originals
Michael Steele is on my tv and is telling me that Republicans are done apologizing and that now they are done being nice and that the honeymoon is over and they are going to go after Obama, which makes me wonder what exactly have they been doing for the past two years? Playing footsie? It …