George “F for Farrreeeky!” Will has a piece up, “Infrastructure projects aren’t jobs programs”, which, all inadvertently, explains why infrastructure projects are jobs programs. Saith St. George, “New Deal public works gave the nation splendidly useful engineering marvels, including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hoover Dam. It did not, however, significantly reduce unemployment, which…
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Hey, George F. Will! Stop making sense!
Yes, much as I hate to admit it, George F. (“F as in FREEEEEEEEKY!!!!!”) Will, perhaps my all-time piñata/bête noire, has a point in his latest screed, “Scientific silencers on the left are trying to shut down climate skepticism”, because that’s exactly what’s happening. I’ve previously complained about the utterly meretricious suit brought by a…
Real reason why Jeb Bush is losing: George Bush
Over at Politico, Anna Palmer and Eli Stokols have a long piece quoting nearly two dozen anonymous Jebusite bigwigs and soreheads to the effect that Mike Murphy, the “sharp-witted, Twitter-obsessed veteran GOP ad man who runs Right to Rise” (the super PAC set up to make Bush III come to be), is responsible for flabby…
Jon Meacham’s biography of George H W Bush? I think it kind of sucks
I say I think so, because I haven’t read it yet, which is often considered a prerequisite for saying something intelligent about a book. However, I have read an extract that appeared in Politico Magazine, claiming that Bush 41 launched the first invasion of Iraq in 1991 out of moral revulsion, not realpolitik. Around Christmas…
Alan Vanneman and George F. Will, Soul Brothers
How many postings have I devoted to ridiculing George F. Will? Well, count ‘em for yourself. But today George and I are one, as he delivers a heart-felt paean to the Hubble telescope’s replacement, the “James Webb,” which, according to George—and who would doubt him!—will be as big as a tennis court. In his column,…
The undeflatable George F. Will
There isn’t much about George F. Will that I find endearing, but the one thing that I find totally endearing is his deep dislike—verging on an irrational loathing, really—of football and, most particularly, the Super Bowl. For some reason, the Super Bowl seems to make George feel like—okay, I’m going to go for it—a Jew…
George F. Will, right on target
How many times have I made fun of George F. Will? I’m not sure, and I won’t take it back, but his latest column, on the U.S.A.’s out of control incarceration machine, the Department of Education’s oppressive puritanism, the civil forfeiture racket, and much, much more, is superb. Rock on, Georgie!
George F. Will, finding that elusive middle ground for right-wing hypocrisy
In a column largely, and justly, devoted to pointing out that President Obama’s excellent Libyan adventure, like his predecessor’s Iraqi incursion, was based on false pretences and has resulted more in chaos than democracy, Georgie F then launches as remarkable a series of non sequitur, false assumption, and disingenuous innuendo as I’ve seen since, well,…
George Packer’s got the New York Blues
Over at the New Yorker, George Packer has a long, earnest take on Amazon, ebook thing, and what it’s doing to the publishing industry. George is earnest and thorough, and includes some intelligent quotes from some authors who say the New York publishing scene pretty much treats them like shit, but you can tell that…
George and Jeane, not my favorite Democrats
The recent death of George McGovern occurred when I happened to be reading the biography of someone who detested George—Jeane Kirkpatrick. George is very well remembered by his admirers, as is Jeane—and for very good reasons—but I’m afraid that I will always remember George as a “loser” and Jeane as a traitor. McGovern first helped…