Krugman nails it. By the way, Heritage is always like this. Whenever there’s something the G.O.P. doesn’t like — say, environmental protection — Heritage can be counted on to produce a report, based on no economic model anyone else recognizes, claiming that this policy would cause huge job losses. Correspondingly, whenever there’s something Republicans want, [...]
Wonkette says what needs to be said. Fat prick Chris Christie loves “mob humor,” which is why he suggested voters “take the bat” to 76-year-old New Jersey state Sen. Loretta Weinberg. Like so many previous N.J. governors, Christie apparently thinks the office is actually a supporting role on teevee’s The Sopranos, which actually ended its run [...]
David Brooks is known to some bloggers as ‘Bobo’. I don’t know if they use that name because they think he is a clown or not. He is mostly a moronic butthead. He wants President Obama and Rep. Ryan to heart each other. This puts the President, who ran a national campaign and answered the [...]
Sidney Lumet died last weekend. Looking through his credits, I saw that he had directed “Network“. I watched it last night for the first time in decades and loved the way it played. I don’t know if Sidney Lumet was a great director, but he was pretty good. He was a former actor and that [...]
Tyler Cowen does a point-by-point take down of the Ryan budget proposal. I can’t say I agree with everything he says, but point 10 caught my eye. 10. There’s not nearly enough on reforming the dysfunctional supply-side of our health care institutions. Nor does science or basic research receive much discussion. The problem with our [...]
I predict that Bill Maher will have a field day with this. Bill Donahue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights gets on his high horse about sex abuse in the Catholic church. The refrain that child rape is a reality in the Church is twice wrong: let’s get it straight—they weren’t children and [...]
Krugman is in fine form this morning. Maybe that terrible deal, in which Republicans ended up getting more than their opening bid, was the best he could achieve — although it looks from here as if the president’s idea of how to bargain is to start by negotiating with himself, making pre-emptive concessions, then pursue [...]
I’m watching David Gregory of “Meet The Press” make out with Rep. Ryan of Wisconsin and so far, it has been all lips and no tongue. Rep. Ryan is flogging his proposed budget around. To be clear: This proposed budget is not about balancing the Federal budget, it is about shifting even more of the [...]
I stumbled upon Conservapedia, a wikipedia dedicated to conservative political beliefs. If ever I need motivation to keep my shit together, this supplied it. If the people who work those pages had integrity, I would engage them. But here is the chain of links I followed from the main page. First Richard Dawkins. Clinton Richard [...]
Rep. Donna Edwards schools her Republican colleagues. And here’s the audio: