Joe Biden, whom I’ve tagged so frequently as the dumbest man in Washington that I’ve gotten tired of it, isn’t listening to me or Osama bin Laden.* Joe, who may perhaps be forgiven for believing that he wouldn’t be worse than either Obama or Mitt Romney, “has quietly assembled an A-team of advisers who would,…
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How many libertarians does it take to screw in a light bulb? An indeterminate number, as long as they remember who owns the damn bulb!
Kerfuffle? Brouhaha? Spat? Tiff? Rape? Clusterfuck? Nobody seems to have a handle on le mot juste for whatever it is that’s going down at 1000 Mass. Avenue, home of the Cato Institute’s refurbished pad, where the Koch Boys, Mannie, Moe, and Jack Dave and Charlie, are trying to muscle out long-time prez Ed Crane. The…
A fence to keep the bad guys out, and the cute boys in
The headline in the Phoenix New Times says it all, or at least most of it: “Paul Babeu’s Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff’s Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation.” Yes, Paul Bebeu, an Arizona sheriff who’s running for Congress as a Republican in Arizona’s Fourth District and who, until recently, was Arizona co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential…
The new Stanford: Unlimited admissions, and it’s free!
That’s the story Felix Salmon (yes, that Felix Salmon) tells here after hearing former Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun talk about putting his Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course online, which resulted in a total enrollment of 160,000 students all over the world(I’m linking even though the class is “over” for the time being, which means that…
Mitch Daniels, Man of Steel
Is there anything more pathetic than a liberal like myself, who sees “his” President, Barack Obama, as the tool of both Wall Street and the CIA? Well, apparently there is, the fate of big-city conservatives like Ross Douthat and Bill Kristol, who are wetting their collective worsteds over the prospect of either Newt or Mitt…
For the children, goddamnit, for the children
In a recent posting in the NYT, bible thumpin’ Ross Douthat warns the Christian right to stay the fuck away from Newt Gingrich: “It isn’t just that he’s a master of selective moral outrage whose newfound piety has been turned to consistently partisan ends. It’s that his personal history — not only the two divorces,…
What does the future hold? More of the same
When I was a little boy, I liked to take baths. And when I was taking a bath, I liked to rock back and forth, causing the water to swish back and forth, my ultimate goal being to cause the water to swish back and forth so violently that at one point all of the…
Newt Gingrich, not really a friend of Israel, it seems
Not enough to satisfy the admittedly exacting standards of Jennifer Rubin, at least, who plants one of her many long knives between the former Speaker’s shoulder blades here. While other conservatives politely averted their eyes from Newt’s whopper, delivered in last night’s debate, claiming that he charged Freddie Mac $300,000 in 2006 to tell them…
What is George’s game?
On Monday, I sneered at George Will’s sneering takedown of Mitt Romney. In the couse of his tirade, George also dealt President Obama a glancing sneer, dismissing him as a “floundering naïf,” though I think “bloodthirsty” might have been a more appropriate adjective.* Well, if George hates Mitt, and hates Obama, who does he want…
Look who’s talking, Part II
So who is talking? It seems like both of them are. So what are they saying? As the man says, you pays your money and you takes your choice. Rick: “Save it for the shower, girlfriend.” Rick: “Stop talking and pull my damn finger.” Rick: “That is so not high C.” Rick: “Do that one…