< Today’s Hartford Courant, the largest newspaper in Connecticut, makes an interesting endorsement today: Former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons has a gold-plated public-service resume. His votes over time have been in line with the mostly moderate traditions of the Republican Party in Connecticut. It is for those reasons that The Courant’s editorial board, with hesitation, recommends that Republican voters in the Aug. 10 primary choose Mr. Simmons to be their standard-bearer in the fall election for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Christopher J. Dodd. Interesting because, well, it’d be a surprise to many in Connecticut...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today’s is from Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, who in his...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Thursday, 29 July 2010
Good morning, folks. Kanye performed at Facebook HQ and got a Twitter account. Now, your morning constitutional: U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton has blocked some of the more controversial measures in Arizona’s new immigration law from going into effect while the federal lawsuit goes forward. The Pima County morgue in Arizona is getting crowded as the number of immigrants found dead in the desert surrounding Tucson has soared. Republicans who served with Elizabeth Warren on the TARP oversight panel offer praise for her work. Elizabeth Warren is widely rumored to be a potential nominee to head...
Continue reading...Meet Tennessee gubernatorial candidates Basil Marceaux and James Reesor
I’m Basil Marceaux dot com, the Republican candidate for governor. I’d like to recall all permits and registrations for guns. Everyone carries guns. If you kill someone though, you get murdered, you go to jail. And uh, I’d like to put—plant grass or vegetation across the state on any vacant lot and sell it for gas so we can use it for our expenses. Also I’m going to remove all gold fringe flags from the state and apply the real flag with three stripes. I also want to stop traffic stops. Set it up like the Supreme...
Continue reading...The "news-and-information conveyor belt"
Mark Halperin, in his latest piece in Time, compares the “news” media coverage of O.J. Simpson (really) and the recent Shirley Sherrod ordeal, and actually comes out of it with a good point: Just as there was something intrinsically interesting about one of America’s best-known and best-liked athletes being charged with a brutal double murder, the craven sacking of Sherrod contained some elements that are undeniably compelling. And both stories involved racial elements that increased their news velocity. But the coverage of both sagas — Simpson’s, literally, for years; Sherrod’s for the better part of a week...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Good morning, folks. Spain’s finally getting their own version of The Golden Girls. Now, your morning constitutional: No matter who wins, whether it be Republican U.S. Representative Mary Fallin or Democratic Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins, Oklahoma is virtually assured of electing its first woman governor in November. Interestingly enough, Oklahoma ranks 49th in percentage of women in their state legislature; South Carolina, which ranks 50th, may also elect its first woman governor (Nikki Haley). The oil spill in the Gulf seems to be clearing faster than anticipated, but of course, concerns about unseen effects remain. A study...
Continue reading...“Joe the Plumber” likes underdogs
Don’t tell Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher this, but the horse he’s betting on is down 62-13 according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His horse would be state lawmaker Chuck Purgason (no, not Turd Ferguson, sadly), and the race is the August 3 Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate seat from Missouri. The odds-on favorite horse in this race is Rep. Roy Blunt (no, not Roy Blount Jr., sadly), who, based on the context, I guess is a “politician like Obama.”
Continue reading...What's Next for Touchdown Jesus
As you’ll recall, last month a 62-foot statue of Jesus burned down after a lightning strike. It happens that this monstrosity is right along the highway I take from the airport when I visit my family in Ohio, so I got to see the skeletal remains of TD Jesus when I was there last week. I was curious about the church’s plans– perhaps after the fire, they’d had an epiphany that there are more worthy uses of $250,000 than reconstructing hideous flammable statuary? Ha! Of course not. Pastor Darlene Bishop brushed off such suggestions, saying that Solid...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today’s is from David “Yawny-Pants” Brooks, who in his column, “The...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Good morning, folks. Amanda Bynes is apparently not so retired after all. Now, your morning constitutional: BP posted a loss of $16.9B for the three months from April to June, the largest ever for a British company. Meanwhile, CEO Tony Hayward is resigning and will be replaced by Robert Dudley, the executive who led the spill response. Dudley will be the first American to run the company. During a trip to Turkey, British PM David Cameron said Turkey must join the European Union. He also said that the Israeli blockade has turned Gaza into a “prison camp.”...
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