Chopin and me
My favorite composer is Chopin. My love for his music began when I was a four-year-old child in dance class, although I didn’t know it was Chopin at the time. All I knew was that the music I heard—performed on … Continue reading →
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The Obamacare cost-savings mirage
Remember that promise the Obama administration made, that health care reform would be financed by cost-saving machinations that would eliminate waste while maintaining quality? Turns out that those measures are unspecified and unknown, theoretical and untested, and that major players … Continue reading →
The blame duck blames the fat cats
President Obama says “”I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street.” No, of course not. He ran for office to be helping out his own fat cat friends and … Continue reading →
I’ve got a new nickname for Obama
Blame duck.
Continue reading →Outrage: the KSM decision
The outrages perpetrated by the Obama administration have come so thick and fast that it’s easy to lose track of them. But for me, one of the worst has been the removal of the KSM trial from the military to … Continue reading →
Clocky: hitting that snooze alarm
I am old enough to have been raised with old-fashioned alarm clocks. You know, the kind that ticked loudly, especially on nights when sleep seemed elusive and their sound echoed through the still bedroom air. Their alarms were harsh and … Continue reading →
Diane Francis offers a modest proposal
Canadian Diane Francis suggests that China’s wonderful one-child-per-couple rule be extended to the entire planet, the better to combat all the environmental ills that the dastardly human race has inflicted on the earth: A planetary law, such as China’s one-child … Continue reading →
No one too happy with Reid’s latest Medicare buy-in proposal
First it was the WaPo, noticing that the Medicate buy-in that Reid announced as such a wonderful compromise substitute for the abandoned (for the moment) public option “could be a bigger step toward a single-payer system” than those rejected plans. … Continue reading →
Breaking news: Norwegians replace Obama with cardboard cutout…
…and it’s a lot friendlier and warmer than the original. [NOTE: Yes, I thought it was an Onion piece myself when I first saw the news. But the original AP story appears to be bona fide.]
Continue reading →Obama the neo-neocon?
Abe Greenwald wonders.
Continue reading →Obama’s social skills and his political success
Commenter “Mrs Whatsit” asks how, if Obama is so lacking in understanding human interactions, can he be such a successful politician: What mystifies me most is that the man is a politician and an extraordinarily successful one (until just recently, … Continue reading →
Obama’s Nobel speech
I’ve said before that I don’t think much of speeches in general, unless the speaker happens to be Winston Churchill or Abraham Lincoln. Obama is neither. But I certainly can’t criticize him for that particular failing. And the text of … Continue reading →