Megan McArdle, who once gave herself the Randian if not randy moniker of “Jane Galt,” now presents herself as a shockingly blasé Washington insider, a realist who knows that “real change” in DC is impossible, because what’s real in Washington is compromise: “Everything you do in Washington is a compromise. There are a lot of…
That’s so you can hear her, Bob.
Will the meek inherent the earth?
Have you ever heard of, much less checked out, “SR”, aka “Screening Room”, a site created by Amazon to push its video products? Well, I just visited their entry for *Red Oaks”, a rollicking (I guess) sit-com redolent of “sex, drugs, and side-ponies” set in the eighties and guaranteed to remind you of Caddyshack. Another…
Played Twice—“Blue Bolivar Blues”
Played Twice at Servant Jazz Quarters in early 2014. Dan Wood on piano, Nick Malcolm on trumpet, George Crowley on tenor sax, Olie Brice on bass and Simon Roth on drums. Posted by Dan Wood
When will “important” people notice?
When will important people in New York and Washington notice that 65% of Republican voters in the Iowa caucus chose candidates who opposed both the Wall Street bailout and Bush/Obama adventurism abroad (Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul), and about 50% of Democrats (Bernie’s army) did the same? It’s easy to dismiss all four…
Are We Germany Yet?, Part II
Well, Iowa is done, and, fortunately, I didn’t make any predictions, because I would have messed up the Republican side entirely. As I recall, though I can’t find the post, the last time I was heard from, I was predicting a Bush win, marking me as the dumbest prognosticator in the country. Fortunately—or not—my vaguer…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Okay, this is what is going to happen. The curare will wear off in a few hours, at which point you’re going to give me the fuck of my life, after which, you will leave. Capisce?” “Okay, kids. This is your new daddy.” “You can start with the bedroom….
Getting to Denmark. Or not.
The welcome mat is not really out in Denmark. The Guardian reports on steps the country has taken to deal with the influx of refugees. “Under the new Danish law, police will be allowed to search asylum seekers on arrival in the country and confiscate any non-essential items worth more than 10,000 kroner (£1,000) that…
Why isn’t the Fed omniscient? Conservatives want to know!
The Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression. It also caused the Great Recession. Why? Because it couldn’t predict the future. That’s the late Milton Friedman’s explanation for the GD, and it’s now David Beckworth and Ramesh Ponnuru’s explanation for the GR, “It took a bigger shock to the economy [than the decline in the housing…
Here’s a newsflash for you, NYT: Hillary Clinton is not so hot
In case you don’t feel like reading through 902 responses to the New York Times’s seriously rose-tinted endorsement of Hillary Clinton, well, here’s comment no. 903: “I would vote for Hillary over whoever the Republican nominee will be, but this "portrait” is seriously airbrushed. Hillary helped lie us into an entirely unnecessary and unsuccessful war…