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Pharmaceutical companies have O! so much to answer for, not least among which is the relentless direct-to-consumer marketing of drugs which have little or no utility for most of the people who wind up demanding that their doctors prescribe them. And what the hell is the deal with those bathtubs? So it’s . . . → Read More: Drug maker prefers its product not be used for executions, thank you very much Twenty years after the end of the Cold War, which is to say the end of the Soviet Union, it turns out that the Soviets actually won. Pyhrrically, sure, but nonetheless. Their disastrous but cunning invasion of Afghanistan prompted the US, in the person of that sweet, peace-loving Jimmy Carter fellow, to begin the . . . → Read More: All of your tweets are belonging to us When the military figured out the occupation of Iraq was bound to be long and bloody, they began looking for ways to bolster recruiting efforts that were beginning to flag because many potential recruits were beginning to realize that between Iraq and Afghanistan, the odds of serving in a combat zone were really, really . . . → Read More: Army sings the blues, or at least the “Too Fat Polka” Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wants to be mayor of Chicago so he’s bailing on the White House next month unless the president offers him a better job, like Lord High Executioner. The mayoral election is in February, and Emanuel has been polling the citizenry and chatting with almost everyone else interested in . . . → Read More: Emanuel headed for Chicago: To be replaced by corporate CEO? Please go visit his blog. He is perceptive and precise, he writes well and he regularly sends readers my way; I would like to return the favor. Health insurance “reform”: :… the authors of this law could have written in anti-defunding language if they wanted. Or tied the funding to percentages of any number . . . → Read More: Blogs on Parade: Jack Crow is grumpy today Whether intentionally or not I can’t say, but AP White House correspondent Ben Feller has written a comic story about the pending Obama address to the UN general assembly. Among the gems: “Since he last addressed the U.N. body, he won the Nobel Peace Prize and significantly increased U.S. forces in Afghanistan, trying to . . . → Read More: Obama travels to the UN, hideous ironies in tow Apparently people will keep telling Bob Woodward stuff until he dies, and possibly afterward. Instead of wandering the halls in drunken communion with portraits of dead predecessors, presidents of the future will turn to the scribe’s stuffed and mounted body for a sympathetic ear, because they’ll never fucking learn. From the New York Times . . . → Read More: Administration gives Bob Woodward access; hilarity ensues. Originally, a licence granted by a sovereign to a subject, authorizing him to make reprisals on the subjects of a hostile state for injuries alleged to have been done to him by the enemy’s army. In later times this became practically a licence to fit out an armed vessel and employ it in the . . . → Read More: Obama to present corporate America with formal Letters of Marque It took about five minutes after the words “July, 2011″ left President Obama’s mouth for the administration, via the Pentagon, to start walking back the putative beginning of the endgame for the US in Afghanistan. First we learned that the deadline was the beginning of a process the speed of which would be dictated . . . → Read More: Afghanistan withdrawal timeline is moonwalking like Michael Jackson President Obama and minions have made an inordinate and largely successful effort to offend likely supporters inhabiting what is sometimes seriously referred to as the left wing of the Democratic party. Possibly this group of professional liars politicians are simply unable to restrain themselves despite the glaringly counterproductive nature of their behavior. Possibly they . . . → Read More: In which the GOP is about to make Obama’s charisma safe again |
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