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…
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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…
Ruth Marcus: just too damn much mercury in her sushi
Or else she’s just too damn stupid. Just weeks after demanding that Caroline Kennedy be appointed to the U.S. Senate because it would a fairy tale come true, she’s saying that Ronald Reagan was right to pardon Mark Felt for conducting illegal bag jobs on Bill Ayers and his Weatherman pals and that, by extension,…
Broderfreude
The classic earmark, so to speak, of the classic Washington weenie is the pleasure one gets in seeing David Broder fall on his self-important ass. It’s an odd sort of pleasure, because Broder himself never feels the impact. For an old Washington hand like Dave, error isn’t a cause for embarrassment. Rather, it’s an opportunity…
Words stolen from Alan Vanneman’s brain, when he was helpless and asleep
“I Often Dream of Trains may be the most Syd Barrett-influenced album of Robyn Hitchcock’s career ….” David Malitz, Wash Post, Nov. 20, 2008. Oh, and how about that mammoth shit?
Anne Hits a Winner, Cohen Goes For the Jugular
I’ve been fairly hard on Anne Applebaum over the past few years, finding her if not actually neo-con then certainly neo-con-ish, tending to treat all foreign policy issues as a matter of toughness and will. “If we just stand up to the Russians/Taliban/Iranians/etc. then we’ll win!” The question of whether it’s worth traveling half-way around…
Further thoughts on the current discontents
If we can take Barack Obama at his word—and I fear we have to—we are in all likelihood entering a new era of regulation. Whatever Wall Street Pacification Package emerges from the current confusion, it certainly won’t turn things around before election day, which is looking more and more like a blowout win for the…