Get off of my side
Richard Cohen has, for many years now, been one of the more embarrassing supposedly liberal opinion columnists out there. But his column today is truly the apex of awful: Today’s GOP is not racist, as...
View ArticleA heartbeat away
Every time you hear this woman talk, you have to somehow wrap your brain around the fact that the GOP wanted her to be vice-president, and that to this day many insist it was ACORN voter fraud that...
View ArticleBelgian Bluegrass
The Broken Circle Breakdown, a film about belgian bluegrass musicians, has been getting positive reviews. Here, for example, is the New Yorker’s take: By rights, this should be the most annoying movie...
View ArticleRaucous Debate
Funny stuff: “If Iran is serious, why not end this whole affair with an agreement instead of by force?” [Former Israel prime minister Ehud] Olmert said. “Perhaps we will reach the conclusion that...
View ArticleImage Is Everything
Alex Pareene read the news today, oh boy: Wow, is it “Paul Ryan is a serious, brilliant, policy-focused wonk with a dynamic and inclusive vision for the future of the Republican Party” season again...
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Elections have SOME consequences
So, the filibuster is now gone for White House appointments other than to the Supreme Court. I expect the political pundits will tell us how this move demonstrates the complete collapse of our...
View ArticleNow you’re not even trying
FoxNews.com has an op-ed piece entitled, ever-so-pleadingly, “Please, Mr. President, for the good of the country, let’s delay ObamaCare.” Author Doug Schoen assures us it’s not just political hackery:...
View ArticleFrom Munich to Tehran
I don’t yet know what to make of the interim nuclear deal reached with Iran. I’m still reading through the press coverage and trying to digest what the agreeement’s supporters and detractors (and those...
View ArticleWho Said It: Pope Francis, Or Bill de Blasio?
I started strong on this quiz, but only finished 6/10.
View ArticleBecause Things Are As They Are, That Is How They Must Be
The unfortunately predominant flaw in today’s conservatism– an unreflective defense of the status quo and lashing out at bothersome facts– is perfectly illustrated by this gentleman’s silly little...
View ArticleWhat US Politics Is About
DougJ writes: What’s most frustrating about reading American political pundits is all the pretend bullshit about how people are motivated by Burkean pragmatism or fiscal restraint, when it’s really all...
View ArticleDo No Harm (unless the patient is poor or old)
[via TPM] The AAPS is a “free-market group,” which I suppose means libertarian nowadays, that opposes Obamacare and is trying to secede from the public health care system entirely. The usual clowns...
View ArticleStrategists Vs. Polemicists
I’ve flagged other Israeli strategists making this point in the past; here it pops up again: The failure to reach a deal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict poses a bigger existential threat to...
View ArticleNot Too Late
Pitchfork has a glowing review of the new four-disc anthology – I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel from the Nashboro Label, 1951-1983 – and from the clips I have heard so far, it...
View ArticleBEEP BEEP BEEP
John Boehner apparently discovered, again, that the right wing of his party is both crazy and anti-productive: “You mean the groups that came out and opposed it before they ever saw it?” a visibly...
View ArticleIn other “news”
Everyone is all excited to talk about the Pope AGAIN, because he made the cover of one of the least relevant dead tree pubs out there. I was pleased to find out, however, that the use of Man of the...
View ArticleFreedom
Seems important to note that the dynamic I’ve been describing in the GOP over the past few years is changing. We might (or might not) have a Republican Party that is objectively wrong on essential...
View ArticleTipping His Hand?
Judge Rakoff, who currently sits on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is wondering why no high-level executives in the financial industry have been prosecuted in the wake...
View ArticleThe First (and most misunderstood) Amendment
The First Amendment protects against government interference in the exercise of free speech. The First Amendment does not govern how a private media company makes intenral programming decisions. The...
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