If you read this blog at all, you know that I’m a huge fan of Glenn Greenwald, who’s worn out half a dozen keyboards recording the countless violations committed by the Obama Administration to truth, civil liberties, the rule of law, and simple common human decency in its endless war on terror, and just about…
Suck on it, Hillbillies
Am I a bad winner? Suck on it. Suck on it, Peggy Noonan. Suck on it, George Will, for predicting a Romney landslide. Suck on it, political “expert” Michael Barone, for doing the same. Suck on it, Charles Krauthammer. Suck on it, William Kristol. Suck on it, Weekly Standard. Suck on it, Bibi Netanyahu. We…
Vote for the Would-Be Murderer, not the Murderer?
Well, it’s a theory. As Glenn Greenwald points out, President Obama has fair claim to be absolutely the worst civil liberties President the U.S.A. has ever seen. The odds are, Romney would be better! That’s a valid inference, even if we simply consider the election a random draw. But, wait, there’s more!—the old “Nixon goes…
Charles Krauthammer, Capitalist Tool
In an unintentionally (I guess) humorous column bearing the all too pretentious title of “The Choice,” Charles Aloysius Krauthammer lays it out for America: Obama second term means that the movement toward European-style social democracy continues, in part by legislation, in part by executive decree. The American experiment — the more individualistic, energetic, innovative, risk-taking…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Sorry, dude, there’s only room for one wise man on this ledge, and you’re looking at him.” “I believe the expression is ‘Forget about it.’” “Listen, buddy, I ain’t the Sphinx and you ain’t Oedipus. You came up the wrong building.” “Unless you’re here to wash the windows, I’m not budging.” “You…
Annals of Republican Hypocrisy No. 47, 314: Vote for Us, or We’ll Fucking Kill You!
William Saletan rounds up the usual suspects, and they’re fucking ugly: Says rational Ramesh Ponnuru, “If Obama wins re-election, the Republican Party will react by moving right, not left. It will become less likely to compromise with Obama … Republicans, especially at the grassroots level, would react to Obama’s re-election by assuming that Romney failed…
Annals of Republican Hypocrisy No. 47,313: Hands across the aisle
Here is Peggy Noonan: “He [Obama] misread his Republican opponents from day one. If he had been large-spirited and conciliatory he would have effectively undercut them, and kept them from uniting. (If he’d been large-spirited with Mr. Romney, he would have undercut him, too.) Instead he was toughly partisan, he shut them out, and positions…
You don’t get to call yourself Tom Friedman unless you are Tom Friedman
NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman is one of the most parodied men in the world, but last Sunday he proved, once again, that no one does Tom Friedman like Tom Friedman does Tom Friedman. In a column labeled “Why I Am Pro-Life,” Manhattan Tom pours most laborious contempt all over fly-over fuck-ups like Richard Mourdock…
Vote for the Murderer, not the Would-Be Murderer
That’s my advice if you live in a swing state. Living in DC, with Libertarian Gary Johnson on the ballot, I have the luxury of making a protest vote. I’m not into libertarian economics, but Johnson’s foreign policy views are more than a breath of fresh air. DC will go so heavily for Obama that…
Felix Salmon hits it out of the park
I know it seems like I only write about Felix Salmon when 1) I’m desperate for a post and 2) I need someone to make fun of, but that’s not entirely true. At least, it’s not true today, which confirms my thesis, because today I’m all raves over Felix’s fabulous piece kicking the shit out…