Spambot of the day
Cryptic spambot: I understand that but where does it take us? The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Finland. Now Santa Claus is missing.
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And now Fareed Zakaria…
…seems to have lost his ability to reason. The argument he offers in his Newsweek column about 9/11 and the US reaction to it is the equivalent of saying that, since the pneumonia patient recovered after getting the antibiotics, the … Continue reading →
Young people and unemployment
Yesterday on this comments thread there was a smattering of schadenfreude towards young people who voted for Obama and are now out of work. A number of readers felt that the high rates of unemployment among the young is a … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman…
…appears to finally have gone stark raving mad. He thinks Obama has erred in following: …a strategy of playing it safe: never put forward proposals that might fail to pass, avoid highlighting the philosophical differences between the parties. Has Krugman … Continue reading →
Any bets on whether Vanity Fair…
…will issue a retraction? Didn’t think so.
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Even if they’re young: Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties: far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds now identify themselves as Democrats compared with 2008.
Continue reading →Those unemployment figures
Summary of this month’s job report: the news is not good. Summary of Obama administration reaction: hey, it could be worse! Well gee, isn’t that always the case? And isn’t it largely irrelevant? Just about everybody knows the truth. Even … Continue reading →
David Brooks…
…dreams of the Obama he fell in love with many moons ago, the one that doesn’t exist and never did.
Continue reading →Slow news…
…is good news. Have you noticed that for the last couple of weeks there’s been a lull in the news? This often happens in August. Congress is on recess, and can’t do much mischief. People are on vacation—and that has … Continue reading →
It’s a free country!
Back when I was a child, there were a few choice phrases that were in every kid’s repertoire of snappy repartee. The first was the all-purpose sarcastic, “Har de har har har” (already discussed in this post and the comments … Continue reading →
Democrats or Republicans: does the difference make a difference?
In the comments section of yesterday’s post, “ghost707” writes The reasons the Republicans rolled over is that they found out that they could fleece the public and get away with it. Democrats controlled most of the institutions in this country, … Continue reading →
Fall cleanup
It’s the first day of September. Although not the official beginning of fall—that doesn’t happen for about three weeks—it’s the real beginning of autumn in my book. And this despite the fact that it’s well into the nineties today where … Continue reading →