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These are things I recently saw on Netflix. Spoilers follow. Morning Glory (2010): Starring some youngish woman (hereinafter known as YW) as an irredeemably giddy television producer hired to either resurrect or euthanize a morning show on which Diane Keaton plays a cardboard cutout opposite some dunderhead who gets fired about five minutes in . . . → Read More: 45-second movie reviews As I told the Speaker this summer, I’m prepared to make more reforms that rein in the long-term costs of Medicare and Medicaid, and strengthen Social Security, so long as those programs remain a guarantee of security for seniors. That’s the Best Possible President once again cutting off power to the Third Rail. Enthusiastic . . . → Read More: Annoying tics among supporters of not the worst so hence the best possible president I have been lazy about referring the two of you to other blogs. I keep forgetting that it’s perfectly legitimate in this business to just quote stuff and then say I wrote something, which makes me feel better about not having written anything. Here are some things that people I like have found other people to be fantastically wrong about. Jack Crow on the threat to traditional marriage:
Continue reading Blogs on Parade: “They’re Wrong About Everything” edition I didn’t get around to reading the State of the Union speech until this morning because the idiot White House didn’t post a transcript on their web site before I went to bed last night, and be damned if I’m going to subject myself to the audiovisual torment of a major political speech ever again. So I apologize to both of you for not responding immediately, as I hear that some malevolent homunculus from my former home state, Indiana, did. The speech can be divided into two parts: the part that recognized and cashed in on all the pressure toward economic justice that Occupy created* during the past four months, and the part that didn’t. Now that Newt Gingrich has won the first round in the Confederate States primary contests—and O! what a victory it was; America’s demons are on the prowl and Newt is their advance man—it’s time to look at the various possible fates of the Soul of America depending upon who wins the battle for it. A quick word (two, really) for liberals incensed that other liberals and leftists are attracted to the anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian soundings of Ron Paul: fuck off. If you don’t like that people are praising a guy they would otherwise regard as just another demented freak filling out the field of demented freaks (and the one . . . → Read More: Why panicked liberals hate Ron Paul They’re wondering whether modern standards of fairness and objectivity permit them to note when a source is full of shit, or whether they should make readers read a story about the story in which the full-of-shit source went unchallenged. For the record, I’ve taken everything I read in the Times with a grain . . . → Read More: The New York Times asks readers: “Is it bad that we lie to you?” A blogger in Philadelphia catches what nobody else has: Barack Obama finally, finally owned up to being a Socialist.
I know I missed it, and I’m attuned to these things. I guess I can relax now: the general election more than ever looks like Obama’s to lose, as the Republicans variously gnaw upon one another’s nether regions or collapse weeping by the roadside, so come January 21 of 2013, the workers paradise awaits us all. Meanwhile, what can you say about Mitch McConnell? The latest scam spam in my inbox is a letter from a high-ranking official of the International Monetary Fund telling me to deal only with him in recovering my money from Nigeria. What is it with Nigeria? Okay, so the war in Iraq is over, according to Obama. This is because the Iraqis rejected his energetic pleas to let him keep some troops in the country—”Okay, not 30,000. How about 10,000? 5? 3500? Okay, fine, we’re leaving, but don’t blame me if we have to come back in with guns a-blazing …”—rather than observing the exit plan humorously agreed upon by the Bush administration. But even with that we’re not leaving, not if you count the 16,000-strong crowd manning the murder holes in the State Department’s gigantic downtown Baghdad bunker. By way of comparison, that’s almost as many people as staff every other US embassy in the world combined, minus Afghanistan. Probably everyone is aware by now that “professional” “historian” and alleged presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has compared his exclusion from the Virginia GOP presidential primary ballot to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Many of you (both of you, dear readers?) might have failed to discern the parallels had not Newt pointed them out. That’s because unlike Newt, you are not “professional” “historians.” Nor have you ever known the horrific tragedy of having “tried” and failed to make the Virginia GOP presidential primary ballot, so how can you possibly judge? |
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