So the president sat down for a White House interview with Bret Baier of Fox News. It was a contentious interview. I haven’t seen any right-wing reactions to it, but my guess is that they’re lauding Baier for taking Obama’s scalp. I haven’t seen any Democratic responses either, but my guess is they’ll remark . . . → Read More: Obama disparages “the left”, pledges not to disrupt “the system”
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Some years back I read a Ross Thomas novel called “Out on the Rim,” among the characters featured in which was an expediter/con man (depending on the occasion and frame of reference) named Maurice “Otherguy” Overby, so called because of his personal mantra: “some other guy did it.” It’s a fine yarn, I recommend . . . → Read More: Introducing Treasury secretary Maurice Overby Gawker is the country’s leading gossip/snark site. The writers will attack anyone (except Kate Winslet) because they just don’t care. They churn out an extraordinary number of posts per writer per day, something on the order of 1,500 each, because they’ll be staked out and eaten by cockroaches if they don’t. We’ll get to . . . → Read More: Gawker Tuesday: John Waters to direct last “Twilight” film, plus … Looking forward to the day when America’s interminable wars finally grind to a halt? Don’t. There are any number of reasons to be way less than confident that our armies are ever leaving Iraq or Afghanistan, not least among which is that the people responsible for getting US troops out of Iraq and . . . → Read More: In which we remember why US troops will never leave Iraq and Afghanistan I took this at about 3PM by the Santa Monica pier at low tide on an overcast day. At the risk of sounding immodest, please don’t use it without asking me for permission. Meanwhile, on the other side of the pier, these two gulls were into some kind of weird social transaction . . . → Read More: A picture is worth 1,000 words, so I don’t have to write anything “Public Pension Funds Are Adding Risk to Raise Returns” States and companies have started investing very differently when it comes to the billions of dollars they are safeguarding for workers’ retirement. Companies are quietly and gradually moving their pension funds out of stocks. They want to reduce their investment risk and are buying more . . . → Read More: From the annals of really bad decisions … Anyone who takes health insurance reform seriously recognizes that universal government-funded health care is the only way to eliminate the abuses of the health insurance industry and control costs to the point that per capita spending on health care in the US falls more or less into line with other developed countries rather than . . . → Read More: Health Insurance Reform: How your precious bodily fluids got sapped If you’re not familiar with the back story, it’s this: James O’Keefe, a patently dishonest right-wing firebrand, if that’s not redundant, and Hannah Giles, a patently dishonest right-wing surf bunny took a hidden camera into various offices of ACORN, an umbrella operation for community organizing groups, and produced a patently dishonest video purporting to . . . → Read More: ACORN-baiting whore solicits Washington Post’s Ezra Klein Avatar will win a bunch of Oscars, although not enough to suit James Cameron. The first time I saw the film I thought it was a pretty faithful remake of Ferngully, a 1992 animated film about fairies whose forest is under assault by humans, one of whom winds up living among them and ultimately . . . → Read More: And the Oscar for post-primitive blue alien Tantric sex goes to … |
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