Over at Reuters, Felix Salmon gets into it over the seemingly esoteric topic of whether the “Uber” rent-a-limo folks have an economic justification for charging customers an $8 base fee plus $3.95 a mile for a Lincoln town car, compared to a base of $5 plus $3.25 a mile for a Prius. Previously, Uber had…
Joe Walsh, probably not a true hero
Freshman Republican Congressman Joe Walsh (IL) has a problem. His Democratic opponent is Tammy Duckworth, former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, who retired after losing both legs when her helicopter was hit by an RPG in Iraq, while Joe never served. What to do? Attack the colonel for having a big mouth! “Understand something…
Mississippi being Mississippi
Yes, there are a lot of nice people in Mississippi, but Roy Nicholson, Chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party, isn’t one of them. Reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, Nicholson went ballistic in a truly southern manner: “With its 5-4 ruling upholding Obamacare the US Supreme Court has joined…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Wow. This one takes me back. ‘New boy in town,’ that pretty much says it. Lots of hair, not many inhibitions.” “Okay, this is from my first race for citywide comptroller. Obviously, I had found my voice. I never looked back, and neither have the voters.” “New York, 1998, Givenchy….
More on the ACA
Over at Salon, Paul Campos advances the argument, using Scalia’s dissent to the Court’s decision upholding most of the Affordable Care Act, that Roberts made a last-minute switch. He doesn’t follow David Bernstein in making dark accusations regarding “unidentified circles” that supposedly leaned on Roberts to come around or the “heat” supposedly applied by President…
Alan Vanneman, Percipience Personified
Mere hours ago, I wrote, of Supreme Court Justice Antonine Scalia’s furious, even frumious, dissent in Arizona v. United States, “One can even hope—and this is probably nonsense, and will probably be exposed as nonsense at 10 o’clock this morning—that his fulmination was sparked in part by frustration over his brethren’s refusal to overturn the…
The Washington Post surprises me
Since I’ve gone out of my way to make fun of the Washington Post on numerous occasions, I guess it’s only right for me to provide a little praise when praise is due. Well, here’s some praise: the Post’s recent editorial on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s gross and unseemly posturing was spot on. Although…
Fast and Furious and Phony
Over at Fortune, a magazine that I used to take more seriously than I do now, Katherine Eban has a fantastic takedown of the Fast and Furious “scandal,” giving me more proof than I could have imagined that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Cal) and the rest of the Republican wolfpack are in fact entirely without principle….
What about the severed heads, Nino? You forgot the severed heads!
Yes, Antonine “Don’t worry, I’m still an asshole” Scalia is, well, still an asshole. In his furious, and, therefore, terribly amusing, dissent in the Supreme Court’s recent decision, Arizona v. United States, overturning most but not all of Arizona’s noxious “illegal immigrants ain’t people” law, El Nino fulminated that Arizona’s citizens “feel themselves under siege…
Jason Moran—“Thelonious”
Monk’s famous one-note theme, hard to find on YouTube because the search engine just thinks you mean “Thelonious Monk”. Spring 2009, Minneapolis, Whole Music Club. Posted by wholemusicclub