This testimony certainly underscores those accusations about Wall Street “fat cats” and greed. Although in this case rats leaving a sinking ship might be a more appropriate image—if you can picture rats carting off chests filled with booty as they … Continue reading →
Fifty-nine percent of those polled want to turn in their Congressional tiles and pick some new ones. Of course, when you do that, sometimes you get an even worse hand. But if the tiles you’re holding are bad enough—all vowels, … Continue reading →
From Ace: the McCain camp is pointing out fourteen lies Biden told in the debate. Or maybe they were mistakes; I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Continue reading →Stocks tumble, Congress dickers. Vote-switching might be occurring (I’m watching CNBC), and the whole thing might be amended again. It’s always fun to watch sausage being made. My question: I thought there was an announcement last night that most were … Continue reading →
…is power, quoth Henry Kissinger. An example of the truth of that principle is this photo of Henry K. and Sarah P. hugging (or is it kissing? Is Henry Kissinger kissing her?) last Tuesday: Mighty suspicious, I think: Compared to … Continue reading →
This sort of thing is why I kinda sorta like Joe Biden. But not enough to vote for him.
Continue reading →…of Chris Dodd sanctimoniously presiding over the hearings on the current economic crisis when in fact he should be one of the people being interrogated for his own role in it is enough to make me grind my teeth.
Continue reading →…why the McCain campaign doesn’t whip out an ad showing the deep links between Obama’s economic advisors Johnson and Raines and the current crisis?* Or Obama’s own receipt of contributions from Fanny and Freddy? Or McCain’s own warning two years … Continue reading →
I’ve got a piece up at Pajamas entitled “Is Obama Buckling Under Pressure?” Please take a look; there’s even some poetry in it! But I liked my original title (see above) better. Ah, well.
Continue reading →Stupid or malicious? Why do we have to choose? I vote both.
Continue reading →It’s been seven years since 9-11. Seven years, a Biblical number. I’m not sure whether they were seven lean years or seven fat ones on the whole. But one thing I do know is that they’ve been seven astonishing and … Continue reading →
[This is a slightly edited version of a piece first published two years ago.] Does it seem as though seven years have passed since that dreadful day of the stunningly blue sky, the orange flames, the plumes of grey-black smoke?
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