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 Paul “The Little Professor” Krugman, who in his...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Friday, 23 July 2010
Good morning, everybody. Joss Whedon is going to direct The Avengers. Now, your morning constitutional: President Obama signed a bill yesterday finally extending benefits for those unemployed for longer than six months. Finding a total lack of votes, the Senate has given up trying to pass a comprehensive climate and energy bill this term. Long-time Representative Charles Rangel will face a public trial before the House ethics committee after a House investigative panel found substantial reason to believe that he violated House ethics rules. He will be the first member to face a public trial since the...
Continue reading...Sharron Angle finally talks to reporters, runs away
You can imagine that reporters were delighted to finally get to cover a Sharron Angle press function. As we’ve noted before, she’s been pretty shy about talking to reporters at all (unless she can get some fund-raising coin out of it). Of course, this could be because she tends to say ridiculous things when put in front of anything that could record her. So, when she invited some reporters to a press function, the last thing you’d picture happening is her avoiding the press, right? Well… U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle invited local media to attend a...
Continue reading...OH NOES: Bacon spies!
You better watch how much bacon you’re eating! According to Texas Representative Louie Gohmert, the government could come after you for being a fat kid and eating all the bacon: Here’s what I would say. Think about it. The federal government has all of your personal medical records. We’ve been told that the federal government has the capability of monitoring every credit card purchase, every debit card purchase that anyone in America makes. We’re also told it doesn’t do that, but it has the capability. But once the federal government through tax dollars is paying for people’s...
Continue reading...Hey, white people: Are you scared enough of black people?
Rachael Maddow: Fox News has run with a few different stories this year that they really pushed all on their own. They weren’t mainstream news stories — they weren’t even news, really. They were Fox agenda items, all following a very, very similar narrative. There was the Van Jones controversy, with Fox morphing the president’s renewable-energy policy expert into an ex-con who served time after the Rodney King race riots — not true. The other great Fox News crusade of the past year was against ACORN, an almost all-minority community organizing group which Fox characterized as stealing...
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, 22 July 2010
Good morning, folks. Lindsay’s in jail but getting special treatment. Now, your morning constitutional: President Obama will sign into law today the Improper Payment Elimination Act, a bill designed to cut fraudulent spending and wasteful programs. The International Court of Justice will issue its verdict today on whether Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia was legal. Budget cuts in Newark force mayor Cory Booker to order the city to stop buying toilet paper. The president yesterday signed the financial reform bill into law. What’s in it, and how does it work? William Saletan: The Lynching of Shirley...
Continue reading...In defense of an admittedly terrible argument
As you probably already heard from this post, Lady Blaga and I have a little wager going on concerning how many votes Elena Kagan’s nomination manages to wrangle in the Senate. Based on some pretty terrible and Friday-night-related maths, I predicted she’d be confirmed, and that it would be by the slimmest of margins: 60 votes. No more, no less. Of course, I didn’t quite expect Lindsey Graham to pull a…Lindsey Graham and not be a hypocrite. So, I’m changing my prediction to 63-64 (Lady Blaga predicts 65), but I do hold to my word and will...
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 Tom “Tommy Boy” Friedman, who in his column...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Good morning, folks. Sarah’s not going to Bristol’s wedding. Now, your morning constitutional: USDA employee Shirley Sherrod resigned yesterday after it was revealed that she gave a racist speech to the NAACP. Oh, wait: turns out it was a speech about overcoming racism. This morning, President Obama will sign the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. The U.S. has announced new sanctions against North Korea targeting the sale and purchase of arms and import of luxury goods. The Senate broke a Republican filibuster yesterday on a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to those...
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