It's the Economy, stupid!

Palin has a special-needs baby, an unwed daughter-mother and a fisherman/oilman husband. She says she has 500K in legal bills. She can choose to be a politician or a celebrity. Which serves her needs? Which is the better platform from which to launch a presidential bid if she chooses? The major conservative voices are all gazillioneers; why not SP? …from the iPhone

Done!

59 60!  Ummmm….  58 (+/- 2).  Sigh.

Mark Sanford and John Ensign: Perfect together.

Is there something mysteriously erotic about the 2009 Republican Conservative Family Values platform that wires men’s brains to go all soap opera?  Sanford should have gone hiking.

“ We’ve built an entire health care system (maybe an entire government) on the illusion of something for nothing. Instead of tackling that basic logic, we’ve got a reform process that is trying to evade it. ”

David Brooks in the June 23 NYT.  Reflective of Paul Krugman’s comments in that same paper six years ago: “And California’s slide into irresponsibility, in which politicians refuse to acknowledge any connection between the government services the public demands and the taxes that pay for those services, is being replicated all across America.”

The GOP

The more I listen to these guys the more it seems fated that the next chair of the GOP has to be Dick Army.  It’s fate.  They haven’t been able to find Jerk Army.

GM and Gitmo

Steve says he can’t stay up late enough to watch Tom on L&O next week.  Mary seems not to be keeping such hours.  He reports that she says that Leno claims (making clear my sources) that the President could close Gitmo by declaring that it’s a Pontiac dealership.

They already have the right customer service model, it seems to me.  When my mother brought her 1955 grey and white two-tone model (sweet) into the service department complaining of a rattle in the door, they advised her to turn up the radio.  Really.  My family’s last Pontiac.  Maybe it’s all our fault.

“ 1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Found ”

New York Times.  Much better than we do in our domestic prison systems.  Gotta look into that success rate.

Thank you W.

Until this morning I had not heard that 43’s handle for NJ candidate for govenor Chris Christie is “Big Boy.”. Sweet. …from the iPhone

Networks

I had the best cabby ever getting from downtown Chicago to O’Hare in the rain. He knew every possible shortcut (there are few) an kept track of traffic via some Blackberry app. Talked us through it all the way. Turned out he’d retired from Cisco Systems. Understanding traffic patterns is sort of like routing IP, I guess. …from the iPhone
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My way to run a meeting.  Good job.  See more.