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  1. The Corporate Mind Of Employee Benefits Administrators Posted 08 Jul 2010 under Health Care, Podium Spin

    Companies in the employee benefits administration business must have a monthly contest to see who can get caught trying to pull the meanest-and-dumbest denial of coverage stunt. It’s early days still, but this month all the smart money is likely to be on North-Dakota-based Discovery Benefits. According to them, Discovery Benefits is not only “a [...]

  2. The Walking, Talking Absorbent Oil Boom Posted 10 Jun 2010 under General

    One of the key low-tech weapons in the oil-spill response armory is the absorbent oil boom. You throw them out on the water (in a continuous chain that, in theory at least, acts as some kind of barrier). And you let them sit there till they have soaked up as much dirty filthy [...]

  3. Scenes From A Spill Posted 26 May 2010 under Podium Spin

    Here’s Mac McClelland of Mother Jones reporting from the front lines. (On) Grand Isle beach … toddlers splash in the surf. Only after I’ve stepped in a blob of crude do I realize that the sheen on the waves and the blackness covering a little blue heron from the neck down is oil. The next day, cops [...]

  4. IOKIYAD? Posted 06 Oct 2009 under Bad Dems

    Sirota: It is what you don’t hear that, more than anything, tells you the American Left does not really exist (or is, at minimum, absolutely FUBAR). And one of those deafening silences just happened. Two weeks ago, the Massachusetts legislature did not merely make a mockery of election law by going back and forth and then back [...]

  5. Sorkin Bids For Second Title Posted 03 Jun 2009 under Media

    If Andrew Ross Sorkin had any intellectual honesty at all, he would already have walked back the absurd union-bashing he engaged in this morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Name a successful unionized company. Think. You’re going to go to [commercial] break before you come up with one. And that’s the problem. (In case you think there’s any [...]

  6. Extortion, Nullification And Other Washington Games Posted 06 Apr 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Economy, Nationalizing Tim Geithner, Obama Uber Alles

    (1) How is this not extortion? Sens. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL) announced today that “they are blocking President Barack Obama’s nomination of Ashton Carter as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.” The senators want assurances that Carter will not “change the criteria” on which the Pentagon considers a refueling tanker contract [...]

  7. Bailed-Out Banks: Case Study Of An Amateur Executive Search Posted 12 Feb 2009 under Economy, Media

    In the wake of the proposal to cap the compensation of executives of bailed out banks at $500,000, one of the favorite Republican talking points has been that you’ll never find anyone halfway competent to run a bank at those paltry wages. There are enough people in the media who dutifully pick up these [...]

  8. Who’s Running John McCain? Posted 29 Jul 2008 under 2008 Presidential, St. John McCain

    There are any number of people out there who are firmly convinced that by the time you become a serious presidential candidate you are already deeply in thrall to dark and shadowy king-makers who firmly control your puppet-strings. They tell you what to do, and you obediently keep on doing it. (That, for [...]

  9. Suborned or Seduced? Posted 15 Nov 2007 under Bush Man Date, Corruption, Iraq War, Rice

    (1) NYT reported that the FBI investigation of the September 16 Blackwater shootings has concluded that 14 of the 17 deaths were “unjustified”. AP has put out a story whose first paragraph is so thoroughly misleading that one is forced to wonder if it was dictated by Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell. (I wonder idly what the [...]

  10. The Blackwater Showdown — Clear As Mud Posted 18 Sep 2007 under Bush Man Date, Iraq War

    The Iraqi government’s reaction to the Blackwater USA convoy protection incident in downtown Baghdad has received an enormous amount of attention in the last 24 hours. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki must be pleased, because that was presumably the whole — pardon me — goddamned point. The conventional wisdom has been that security contractors are outside [...]

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