Well, they are coming, slowly and fitfully, to the “Wall Street Sucks” campaign currently underway in lower Manhattan. Even if, like me, you probably disagree with 99 percent of what the “99%” demonstrators have to say, it’s nice to hear someone bitching out loud about Wall Street. For true-blue liberals, of course, the continuing mystery…
Tag: politics
What went wrong? Possible causes
Well, now that all the fuss over Confidence Men, Ron Suskind’s “did not/did too” exposé of the furious infighting for influence among President Obama’s economic policy advisors has died down, we can review the matter without having to decide whether Larry Summers is a complete asshole 24/7 or if he occasionally has some downtime. So…
Slate Magazine: America’s Kill Zone
Slate Magazine, supposedly a liberal spot on the web, has gone all medieval on our asses. Will Saletan, whom I’ve praised in the past, gets more than hysterical on the subject of Anwar al-Awlaki. “Don’t cry for Awlaki,” Will tells us. “He got what he deserved. He left this country to wage war against it….
Marco Benevento—“Bye-ya”
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Rick Perry loves Mexicans? No way, John! Rick Perry hates Mexicans!
Poor Rick Perry. The Republican masses have found him guilty of having a heart! He wants to help kids even if their parents aren’t Americans! Rick, are you sure you ain’t talking with a lisp? Cause you sound like a damn homo to me. Well, to prove that his heart is true—and cold as ice—Rick…
Murder most foul: Obama hath murdered Anwar al-Awlaki and America’s conscience
The more I read about America’s latest triumph, the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki, the more depressed I get. Obama appears to be very proud of his murder—a murder of his very own, so to speak, since it was the Obama Administration that added Anwar to Uncle Sam’s hit list. Also killed were Samir Khan, a…
Rick Perry, ahead of his time
Poor Rick Perry! When he busted into American consciousness as a bona-fide candidate for the Republican nomination, he had a killer rap: “I’m Rick Perry, bitch! I hang more men before breakfast than y’all do all day!” Rick’s no apologies, what you see is what you get image, of which he is obviously very proud,…
VSOP II—Well, You Needn’t 1983
Herbie Hancock – Piano, Ron Carter – Bass, Tony Williams – Drums, Wynton Marsalis -Trumpet, Branford Marsalis – Saxophone It doesn’t get much better than this. Because it can’t. Posted by “leatherlips.”
Peter Orszag—Greedy and Tone-Deaf, or Greedy and Stupid?
They must love Peter Orszag at the White House. Af few years back, Pete quit his job as director of the Office of Management and Budget to go to work for Citigroup, that banking colossus that perhaps should be referred to as “Citigrope” for violating the public trust in stunningly profitable ways. Now, Pete’s back…
U.S. accuses China of stealing our idea for stealing ideas
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has lowered his mighty rhetorical boom on China for its habit of requiring U.S. companies that establish production facilities on the mainland to share their patent rights. “They [China] have made possible systematic stealing of intellectual property of American companies and have not been very aggressive to put in place…