Legal humor here. “Believe me, this is the good time. In a week, having to share your worms with a bunch of gabby kids will seem barbaric.” “Don’t worry! Harry’s little worm runs never last more than an hour.” “I know he promised you an oak, but you know how men are. Believe me, hickories are…
The World’s Grown Honest
Or so, President Obama has decided, it would be convenient for him that we should believe. At any rate, the president’s “left” speech, an actual gesture, a genuine rhetorical bone for us peaceniks to gnaw on, is more than we’ve gotten for the last four years. It’s better than murder, isn’t it? The basic idea is…
Thank you, Washington Post!
I am often not a fan of the Washington Post, but, well, May 22nd was an unusual day, a day on which Post reporters Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung lowered the boom on David “Lover Boy” Petraeus, explaining how Dave’s “toot your horn/cover your ass” approach to congressional relations helped create a monumental PR headache for the not…
Tom Ricks, Foreign Policy Magazine dude, probably not happy with FP random link generator
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,…