Archive for March, 2009
The Arithmetically Challenged Karl Rove
Karl Rove, in his Wall Street Journal column yesterday, lashed out at President Obama for dishonesty. The title reads: Presidential Bait-and-Switch What Obama once promised, and what he’s delivering The opening salvo: Barack Obama won the presidency in large measure because he presented himself as a demarcation point. The old politics, he said, was based [...]
What Would Gandhi Do?
A controversial auction yesterday in New York of personal items belonging to Mahatma Gandhi has resulted in a bizarre outcome. The items up for auction, “owned by James Otis, a Los Angeles-based pacifist and documentary filmmaker, include Gandhi’s 1910 Zenith pocket watch, steel-rimmed eyeglasses, sandals, and brass bowl and plate.” The reserve price for the [...]
It’s Funny Because It’s True
MyDD :: Gupta Out! Dashing CNN personality reportedly no longer in the running for Surgeon General post. The field is now cleared for Dr. Leo Spaceman. “Medicine’s not a science.” Update [2009-3-5 17:46:17 by Josh Orton]: And for those of you who think the support behind Spaceman is held only in jest, consider this: his [...]
Is Our Bloggers Learning?
Not Josh Marshall of TPM, certainly. On February 17, I blogged about how he had four typos in four consecutive posts. Well, today he managed four typos in two consecutive paragraphs of the same post. (There’s also one in the preceding paragraph, actually, but I decided to leave it out rather than include that long [...]
How The Mighty Are Fallen
On March 3, John McCain — in his continuing anti-pork crusade — mocked “$951,500 for the Oregon Solar Highway” as the #1 piece of pork in the omnibus spending bill. Just four days earlier, he had produced a top-ten list. It’s easy enough to guess (from his track record of constant reversals on every single [...]
But Will The Fat Boy Sing?
The House Judiciary Committee announced yesterday evening that Karl Rove and Harriet Miers are going to testify before the Committee after all: In an agreement reached today between the former Bush administration and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Karl Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers will testify [...]
Limbaugh, Worship, Prayer
I like Keith Olbermann‘s name for the ugly-ass racist hatemonger: Boss Limbaugh. What’s missing, though, is the right note of affection, so I’m going to affectionately contract it to “Bimbaugh”. I also want to be sure I strike a properly respectful note, given his enormous standing in our polity. He inspires the Michael Steeles and [...]
Glass Houses, Stone-throwing And TPM
Anyone who has followed my posts about the merry antics of TPM‘s headline writer (see this, this, this and this) will find this post by Josh Marshall genuinely amusing: Every day now I see a new article quoting this or that bank CEO saying it was a mistake to take government aid and that they’ve [...]
“All Hail Limbaugh” Gathers Momentum
Michael Steele groveling at Rush Limbaugh‘s feet on Monday was pathetic enough: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.” “My intent was not to [...]
Out-Bushing Bush’s Department Of Justice
(1) First came Bushworld attempts to suppress public scrutiny of questionable decisions taken in the name of national security, most of which involved violence to the constitution and/or other laws of the land. Then came multiple instances of the Obama administration’s full-throated support of these suppression attempts. — Early in February we saw Obama’s Department [...]