Thomas E. Ricks, a guy whom I don’t think I know, has a blog on “Foreign Policy” magazine. I was reading another,better, article on FP, and at the bottom was a list of additional articles, including one with the snappy title “Paula Broadwell smokes J. Stewart in PT.” Well, I thought it said “Paula Broadwell…
Obama Woes, and how the Republicans never fail to remind us that they would only make things worse
President Obama, if he isn’t looking mortal, is at least looking awkward these days. The current “triple scandal” will, I think, end up costing the President little, but it does give the Republicans something to yell about, and yelling to no effect is what the current crop of Republicans does best. The Administration’s handling of…
Pseudo-New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Because he ate the damn parrot, that’s why. Got any more dumb-ass questions?” “That’s right, no more ‘Pieces of Eight! Pieces of Eight!’ in my ear 24/7. You won’t hear me complaining.” “I know you don’t, but the chicks do. And this bad boy is all about the ladies.” “Times change, me heartie,…
Susan Rice for NSA? Maybe not such a good idea
Page 2 of the Glenn Thrush source-greaser I sneered at yesterday contains the following regarding Susan Rice: Rice — who reportedly holds no grudges against Clinton [who supposedly did not do the Sunday talk shows following the murder of Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi because she “hates” them]— walked into her fateful Sunday trial with eyes wide open and bent…
Benghazi Badinage
The guy who gets it right: Ron Paul, denouncing Republicans for denouncing Obama for the wrong reasons. Republicans denounce Obama for not being aggressive enough, when, as Paul points out, our problems arise from the fact that Obama was too aggressive, waging an unnecessary, unconstitutional war in Libya, a war in which the Republican Party entirely acquiesced….
Hatin’ on Keynes, Part II: Adam Smith, total homo
To return to the topic of whether Keynesian economics should be avoided because Keynes liked boys and ballet better than girls and football, let me point out that Adam Smith, the King of Laissez Faire,* never married, and was suspiciously fond of his mother, kind of like Liberace, without all the furs. As Jeet Heer points out in…
Douthat’s (and Goldberg’s) Dilemma Resolved
Ross Douthat takes a very sour tone with regard to Mark Sanford’s election as a congressman from South Carolina after, among other things, taking French, so to speak. leave from SC to visit his South American sweetie, at public expense. Ross quotes Jonah Goldberg as saying, yes, it’s terrible when politicians do these things, naming, of course,…
Pseudo-New Yorker
Legal humor here. “He says that five pounds of a decent Roquefort will make him go away.” “I can’t find a cab that will go to Rat Town at this time of night.” “You’d better make him a hot toddy while I talk to Helen. This is going to take a while.” “I’m getting nowhere with…
Hatin’ on Keynes
Niall Ferguson’s “Johnnie was a homo” assault on the economics of John Maynard Keynes, which, as Jonah Goldberg helpfully points out, has been made many times before (so there’s nothing wrong with it, I guess), suggests just how much the neo-con right hates Keynes, hates him for being right. Keynes’ monumental crime was not buggery…
Karl Marx: Yes, I am a Nazi. Why do you ask?
Karl Marx on Ferdinand Lassalle, a German revolutionary who, like Marx himself, was a spiritual child of the failed Revolution of 1848: It is now completely clear to me, that, as proven by the shape of his head and the growth of his hair, he [Lassalle] stems from the Negroes who joined the march of…