…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?
Continue reading →And here we were thinking it was actually a trash-talking, spectacle-wearing, pregnancy-concealing, former beauty queen/sportcaster pistol-packin mama named Sarah Palin. But no; it’s really George Bush [see link’s last paragraph for the revelation]. To be more precise, John McCain’s running … Continue reading →
Gaffe wars. [See also this. Since this particular tempest is about economics, I’ll not weigh in myself.]
Continue reading →For those of you who are eager to know why, oh why, oh why on earth John McCain stood in front of a sickly electric-green background for a few terrible minutes last night, the mystery may be solved. Sort of. … Continue reading →
Christopher Orr of TNR gets it. [ADDENDUM: Heh.]
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