Maureen Dowd…
…probably should not venture into the world of Yiddish. Oy, vey! It will only give her tsuris instead of nachas. Note to MoDo: not all “kve” words are alike.
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Bounces off me and sticks to you
The title of this post comes from an obnoxious children’s rhyme we used to recite whenever someone called us a bad name and we wanted to deflect the charge more effectively than with “Sticks and stones may break my bones, … Continue reading →
How it works when you’re Pravda
Before I get into the details of this, let me just state that the NY Times knows exactly what it’s doing. You may think the manipulation and/or lies of the editors are transparent, but not for a lot of its … Continue reading →
Playing to the cheap seats
Interesting article by David Weigel in Slate: Romney was right. Why was Obama wrong? Because, I think, he was willfully blurring the distinction between “geopolitical” and other sorts of threats. He was playing to the cheap seats. Voters do not … Continue reading →
The Ukraine crisis and competing foreign policy visions: right vs. left
Seeing into the future is easy sometimes when you take a look and pay attention: So Russia invaded Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. I’m surprised that anyone is surprised. I’m hardly an expert on Ukrainian history or politics, but I’ve been there, … Continue reading →
Circle dancing: the media is the message
The Anchoress has a lot to say about the Obama’s administration’s proposal to use the FCC to “study” the newsrooms: …[The administration is] thinking no one in the mainstream press has asked them a difficult or challenging question in 7 … Continue reading →
Pravda, here we come!
I haven’t yet covered the story about this administration’s proposal that the FCC monitor newsrooms to see “whether journalists are producing articles, television reports, Internet content, and commentary that ‘meets the public’s critical information needs,’” although I plan to write … Continue reading →
Gay marriage and liberty: on the slippery slope
A law protecting the rights of vendors to refuse to provide services to same sex-couples in the context of marrying or celebrating their marriages was passed in the Kansas House and killed in the Kansas Senate. So it’s now moot, … Continue reading →
The real story of the murder of Kitty Genovese
Read it. And then wonder whether the NY Times ever gets anything right.
Continue reading →The mammogram study and the NY Times
Here’s an article in the NY Times about a new mammogram study that’s gotten a lot of attention. And here’s the study itself. Compare and contrast. The first sentence of the Times article: One of the largest and most meticulous … Continue reading →
The truth, the whole truth: the Obamacare Plan
Reading the administration’s announcements about how many people have signed up for Obamacare so far*, I realize that not only do I not trust the figures to tell the whole story, but I don’t trust them to have any relation … Continue reading →
Spinning the new CBO report on Obamacare’s economic effects
Before I even begin, let me just ask: why would anyone trust the CBO’s projections about Obamacare’s effects? You don’t even have to believe that the CBO is purposely lying about anything to perceive that such prognostications are inherently suspect … Continue reading →