Over at the Wash Post’s “FastFIX” (and, baby, it is fast!), fast-talking (of course) Chris Cillizza gives the upside and the downside of the Newtman, something we need to know now that Newt could be our next president (it’s video 80 if you really want to see it). Well, except that, over at Politico, we…
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The New York Times, still not getting a handle on the “objective reporting” thing
Today’s NYT carries a story on a special deal cooked up by Goldman Sachs to toss some serious walking-around money to Mark Zuckerberg’s already legendary Facebook—about $500 million. According to the article by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Evelyn M. Rusli, “The new money will give Facebook more firepower to steal away valuable employees, develop new…
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation: Kicking Ass, And You Don’t Even Know They Exist!
Admit it, you don’t, but, according to Jeff Stein’s “Spy Talk” in the Wash Post “Federal, state and local officials carrying out a counter-terrorism drill in Northern California Wednesday played out a scenario in which local marijuana growers set off bombs and took over the Shasta Dam, the nation’s second largest, to free an imprisoned…
Why it pays to read the obits
Way, way back in the day, in 1967, in fact, I heard Pauline Kael speak at Oberlin College. Discoursing on pop culture versus “high” culture, she opined that pop culture offered delights unavailable on Mt. Helicon. Dating herself just a bit, she gave as an example Frank Sinatra singing “Bim Bam Baby.” Flash forward 43…
At Least It Wasn’t A Jew Joke
Marine Commandant James T. Conway gets a little carried away at the thought of some down and dirty all-male action in the Corps: “Our men need to know they can count on each other in battle, and we can’t have them getting distracted by illicit romantic dalliances. Especially if one’s a little blond Adonis farm…
George to Obama—“Back off, base pretender!”
George Will* has a scathing column about President Obama’s recent pitch to the Olympic Committee re his beloved Chicago, sneeringly accusing the President of being a narcissist. Since Obama is relatively new to DC, he may not be too familiar with Willspeak, so allow me to deconstruct. See, Mr. President, you may be the President…
Random responses to random idiots
Mary Jane: “Why would Doc Oc want to attack Wolverine?” Oh, Mary Jane, do you believe that supervillains display only a motivated malignity? In any case, Spiderman, correct for once, provides an adequate answer: “ ’cause Logan cut one of his tentacles.” After all, if someone cut one of your tentacles, how would you like…
Pimp my charmingly unpretentious Chevy Chase bungalow
According to a reliable source—and I do have them—Katy Weymouth does not own a mansion. Furthermore, in a recent memo Katy has asked for a “review” of “recent events” at the Wash Post—most notably, one presumes, her recent offer to rent out herself, her house, and her paper to the highest bidder. It’s a good…
Richard Cohen, conflicted
Richard Cohen is conflicted. On the one hand, torture seems like a bad thing. On the other hand, this Cheney fellow, he says it works. “He says he knows of two CIA memos that support his contention that the harsh interrogation methods worked and that many lives were saved.” “Cheney says he once had the…
Joe Klein II
For several years now, Time Magazine’s Joe Klein has a been a relentless foe of the Bush Administration, and has heaped ridicule on neocons like Bill Kristol to the point that he’s been called, more than once, an anti-Semitic Jew. Just recently, he’s posted a withering denunciation of the Bush Administration’s shameful record, closing with…