Archive for March, 2009
Jon Stewart Doesn’t Understand You
James Pethokoukis hit the nail right on the head today. There was a lively exchange last night on The Daily Show between Jon Stewart and CNBC’s Jim Cramer, in which Stewart hammered Cramer and the network for being subservient to Wall Street and not alerting viewers to the coming meltdown. Cramer and the network can [...]
Greed is the New Fear (Or, Why Progressives Can’t Leave Well Enough Alone)
Good news, folks. Fear has been banished and greed is in! Lawrence H. Summers, the White House economic adviser, calls it “the paradox at the heart of the financial crisis. “ “In the past few years, we’ve seen too much greed and too little fear; too much spending and not enough saving; too much borrowing [...]
An Overdue Hockey Blog Post
I don’t write much about it here, but I’m a huge fan of the Washington Capitals and have been since even before the greatest goal in Capitals history. Ted Leonsis has done an excellent job building what I believe it one of the strongest franchises in the NHL. If you are even tangentially interested in [...]
They Held Senate Hearing and a Revival Meeting Broke Out
The Democrats held a hearing in the Senate on the Card Check bill on Tuesday and, lo and behold, a labor rally broke out! The Senator chairing the hearing, by the way, is the largest recipient of labor union cash in the Senate over the past 20 years. No wonder he’s so eager to turn [...]
Color Me Unimpressed, New York Times
This quote from one of Stacy’s posts seems a perfect introduction to another announcement: By slow and imperceptible degrees, like a vine climbing a wall, a stultifying artificiality has crept into American intellectual life, which is governed by a set of unspoken rules that prohibit engagement on terms that are honest, honorable and manly. Our [...]
About That Backside…
My friend Stacy McCain has laid on me the most scurrilous charge of “undermin[ing] journalistic standards” because my post on Meghan McCain was linked in this post Jenn Q Public behind the words “shapely behind”. His accusation is simply not true. I never said Meghan McCain’s behind was “shapely”. I did say she had a [...]
That’s What You Said