Over at the New Republic, Tim Noah has a bit of fun with Joyce Maynard’s breathless account (for the New York Times) of the quasi-countless benefits this fifty-something gal has derived from her brand-new $800 haircut: “It’s only hair, of course,” Joycie tells us. “Still, two weeks later, I observed in myself a marked elevation…
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The Grandfather of all Tick-Tocks
“Il Tick-Tock di Tutti Tick-Tocks”? “Tick-Tock Mania”? “Tick-Tocks R Us”? “Tick-Tock Around the Clock”? Anyway, over at the New York Times, Matt Bai has yet another Tick-Tock on that mother of all non-events, the Obama-Boehner non-budget deal, that died aborning back in July. This lemon has already been squeezed pretty dry, but Bai still gets…
U.S. Commerce Department to China: Your solar panel subsidies are more illegal than our solar panel subsidies
You may have heard that the Obama Administration spent $500 million subsidizing a solar panel company named Solyndra, which went bankrupt largely due to competition from solar panels imported from China. Well, now the U.S. Commerce Department, supposedly at the behest of disinterested bureaucrats rather than pissed-off politicos, is going to slap a tariff on…
Murmur, Murmur
OK, this is pretty late, like 20 years, but over at Salon Steve Kornacki has an interesting (to me) piece on attempts by various would-be presidential candidates to win their party’s nomination by announcing a choice for vice-president prior to the convention. Back in 1992, Jerry Brown was hounding Bill Clinton in the New York…
Ten Years After
Ten years after the U.S. began its occupation/liberation of Afghanistan, we still haven’t figured out how to relate to a nation of poppy-growing Muslim fundamentalists. It might seem “obvious” to some that burning Korans is not a good idea when you’re trying to teach Muslims how enlightened you are and how much you respect their…
Obama Wins One
Was it all a plot? And, if so, who was plotting whom? A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times was telling us that the Catholic Church, scenting from afar that the Obama Administration was likely to announce a policy requiring religiously affiliated universities and hospitals to cover birth control costs in their employees’…
Peace? Sure! Peace with frequent random murders and the occasional contrived crisis
Yesterday’s post, which implied, to quote Henry Kissinger, that peace is at hand, perhaps suggested that I’ve grown optimistic about our future. Well, not so much. Americans, and the American establishment, may be growing tired of our Afghanistan adventure, but we have yet to abandon the joys of remote-controlled murder. The Bureau of Investigatory Journalism…
Reason No. 47,883 why Israel is really, really going to bomb Iran this time: the Iranians won’t mind!
Yes, the New York Times, which enjoys running articles about why Israel is really going to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities more than I enjoy making fun of Felix Salmon’s disenchantment with Suze Orman, is at it again. Israel probably should just go ahead and bomb the shit out of Iran because “Israeli intelligence estimates, backed…
Ten aircraft carriers? Ten? We’re hanging by our fingernails with eleven!
Over at the New York Times, Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker team up to deliver a story on possible cuts in defense spending that, one must say, is not entirely misleading. While picturing Defense Secretary Leo Panetta as straining every nerve and sinew to achieve the near-impossible—cutting our grossly swollen defense budget by 10 percent…
If you’re dead, you’re not a non-combatant
Over at Wired’s “Danger Room,” Spencer Ackerman takes a look at the results of President Obama’s drone war, causing Greg Scoblete and Andrew Sullivan to express skepticism regarding the accuracy of the Administration’s body count. Last August, the New York Times also questioned the drone program’s “perfect record.” This photo, of Syed Wali Shah Khan,…