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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 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? 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? I don’t know what to say about this other than that I thought it was a joke because I first saw it on America’s Third Finest News Source. Now it’s only sad.
Continue reading “The United States of Awesome Possibilities” Lots of people know by now that of the three federal agencies alleged Texas governor Rick Perry wants to eliminate when he becomes President, Perry could only remember two during the GOP presidential primary “debate” last night. Apparently a large subset of the people who know about it think the spectacle of him doing the cranial potty dance on live TV for about a solid minute signals the end of his campaign, but they forget that there are no stupidity, cupidity, liquidity, lividity, lucidity, rancidity or validity barriers to presidential candidacy in the GOP. You only have to be alive (and that’s a prejudice we here at BTC News intend to shatter). But like Glen Campbell in “True Grit,” Rick Perry ain’t dead yet. (Although we should note that Campbell’s character was fatally wounded at the time.) The alleged Texas governor managed to find his way to the press room to slather some soothing “Aw Shucks” balm on reporters after the debate, and his campaign sent out an email fundraising appeal not long after that. I have nothing of interest to say today, so … Once upon a time my blog got a lot of traffic, or at least it seemed like a lot to me. Then stuff happened and now most of my traffic comes from spammers trying to log into the site or leave comments or both. One consequence of the spam is that when it gets really heavy, my little blog exceeds the amount of CPU time my web site host allows an individual site to use, so the server starts limiting my usage and access to the blog slows way down. This doesn’t discourage the spammers at all, they just keep banging away, but it does annoy actual people trying to read something. |
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