Archive for September, 2010
It Helps To Read The Bible Before You Write About What’s In The Bible
I’d like to offer Robert Wright of the New York Times a little helpful advice. Robert, when you want to appear smart by offering one of those little quizzes wherein the deluded masses believe the answer is one thing but you, by dint of your superior intellect, know the real answer, you should make every [...]
White House Set a Trap for Boehner but Snared the Entire Democratic Leadership.
If the room full of Political Sooper Geniuses running the White House Message Machine got any smarter, it would suddenly burst into a blazing white light as the combined brainpower of those assembled therein transcended the mortal plane and became a hyper-intelligent gestalt being of pure intellect incapable of co-existing with mere humanity. The Message [...]
I Remember September 11, 2001, but I’d Rather…
I don’t like writing about September 11, 2001. My experience that day is not all that important and, truth be told, I’d rather not remember what I was doing or what I felt as the war we’d been ignoring for years showed up in Manhattan, Northern Virginia, and a lone airplane that later ended up [...]
Staggering Confusedly Past the Graveyard
Poor Joe Conason, writing at Real Clear Politics, is sorely confused this morning. Let’s see if we can help him out. Among the very puzzling aspects of the midterm election — and the Democratic debacle that appears to be looming in November — is why voters would return the opposition to power only two years [...]
Are the Republican Message Masters Asleep at the Wheel?
Republicans, you know that whole lower taxes and free market message you’re supposed to be spreading? Well, you’re doing it wrong! PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans favor letting the tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration expire for the wealthy. While 37% support keeping the tax cuts for all Americans, 44% want them [...]
Gilligan Was Not to be Found
I tweeted about this gut-churning video a couple of days ago, but for those of you who have not embraced the marvelous social media world of Twitter, let me present it here. The video is a compilation of closed-circuit surveillance videos on a cruise ship that suddenly encountered a storm that produces seas over 21 [...]
How Proud are Democrats of Their Obamacare Votes? Proud Like Chickens!
Remember those bygone days of yore when Democrats were actually proud of their votes for government-run health care, when their votes to stick us in their ridiculously expensive totalitarian fantasy was an “act of patriotism”? Well, now that Obamacare is triggering rate hikes from health insurers and the government’s own Medicare and Medicaid actuary saying [...]
That’s What You Said