January 2012
12 posts
Say you're a vegetarian...
Should you buy an iPad or iPhone? Or maybe any such device. How do production conditions weigh moral purchasing decisions?
NYTimes: In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
http://nyti.ms/wlKgQ9
Better act quickly! →
On the day that the conservative punditocracy decided they’d better get serious about Florida, my old frat bro Bobby T. writes….
“This is a fulsome release and we’re proud of it.”
– Romney’s campaign counsel, Ben Ginsburg. Fulsome. Look it up.
Big Oil likes the GOP. So suddenly the GOP is...
NYTimes: Republicans Charge Delay in Volt Fire Announcement
http://nyti.ms/xUz7z3
Three states, three stupid decisions....
NYTimes: Gingrich Wins South Carolina Primary, Upending G.O.P. Race
http://nyti.ms/zlHs1J
““Limbaugh lauded Gingrich for having had the “decency” to ask his former...”
– http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/01/sex-south-carolina-and-conservative-angst-over-open-marriage-.html
Equity →
Sometimes, there are numbers you just should know.
How many jobs has this generous tax rate allowed this JOB CREATOR to make… besides the re-do of the Pacific beach house?
“Romney Says His Effective Tax Rate Is ‘Probably’ 15%”
What Santorum Said Last Night
What Romney Said Last Night
POLITICO this morning
Quirky Ron Paul has little hope of being the nominee, and Rick Santorum lacks the infrastructure or money to capitalize on an Iowa surprise. As long as Romney finishes first or second, he is the likely nominee - and the other campaigns barely argue otherwise.
December 2011
7 posts
A chicken in every platitude. →
Doesn’t think well on his feet.
Another test The Supreme may flunk
NYTimes: Justice Department Rejects Voter ID Law in South Carolina
http://nyti.ms/tsqSPp
Thank you video guys. →
If we really were saying what we were thinking.
Even the WSJ editors are in awe of the House.
Bohener can’t herd his cats. (BCB)
WSJ Editors: “[W]e wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest. The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play. Republicans have also achieved the small...
“(Christine O’Donnel) … praised Romney for having “been consistent...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/opinion/collins-mitts-zest-for-zings.html
“He has every negative character trait that conservatives associate with ’60s...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/opinion/brooks-the-gingrich-tragedy.html
“someone who sticks around long enough - rising from defeat,muscling though...”
– http://mobile.nytimes.com/
November 2011
14 posts
Spot on →
But it turns out that what Mr. Gingrich lacks in glamour or novelty, he makes up for in his sheer imperviousness to humiliation.
Romney and Vick
Previewing next Sunday’s NYTimes Magazine profile of the man in bland, Romney’s chief campaign strategist takes an original view other these two leaders. They both can tell you dog stories, too. Among Stevenson comments, the “unlikeliest is one in which he compares Romney to Michael Vick, the dynamic quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles. ‘Michael Vick’s not a...
We are the 99% →
RIP →
No.. Not in peace. What part of “get it done” didn’t they understand?
We were not an eleemosynary organization →
Maybe we need more of those.
WHAT POTUS ACTUALLY SAID
On Saturday at the APEC CEO Business Summit, in Honolulu: ”[T]he United States is still the largest recipient of foreign investment in the world. And there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity — our stability, our openness, our innovative free market culture. But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades....
On being an uncle
That’s what I’m feeling like, as Republican friends go through this dubious dating game with potential candidates. They keep bringing home all these crazies wen there are one or two nice boys they won’t want to divorce as soon as they get the rice out of their hair. But an uncle has no standing. Can’t get through to them, and if they make the stupid decision, I’m...
Leadership →
By this view, OWS is the malignant child of democracy and crowd sourcing. Be careful what you wish for, Tom.
Herman, Herman, Herman... →
Is there a factory out there where they produce these guys? Better check the QC.
Technocrats
Greece now has one. Italy has one on the way. We sort of have one… who I still sort of like.
I think this is what I thought Fujimori was going to be in Peru a couple of decades back… Then there was Chile. Academics don’t make good small d democrats. Think Wilson. Be careful what you wish for.
Done that. →
We’ve already got one.
And we were expecting exactly what?
Newly Released Transcripts Show a Bitter and Cynical Nixon in ‘75
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/us/newly-released-transcripts-show-a-combative-richard-nixon.xml
Dumb move
I bought 20 shares of MF Global at eight and a half bucks or so after John Corzine joined the firm. He lost the election to Christie, an A-hole, and was smart. Eight bucks could grow. Oops. Hoping I can get rid of it for fifteen cents tomorrow to settle my tax account. So much for betting on the smart guys. http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=862036&f=28&sub=Editorial
“Thank you Jeezus: “Herman Cain on Wednesday accused the campaign of Rick...”
– http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=862357&f=19
October 2011
4 posts
“the financial services industry,including real estate,spent $2.3 billion on...”
– Tom Friedman http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=860524&f=28&sub=Sunday
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=859536&f=20 →
I’m thinking it was W’s shoulder massage that gave her the courage.
This time the numbers tell that you can't tell. →
Cain may be able.
Where Romney Came From →
Not, I think, a total hack job.
September 2011
1 post
Only it's not funny
Dick abides, sorry to say.
August 2011
4 posts
If it had been Hillary... →
There simply was never going to be a liberal messiah whose powers could transcend the limits set by a democracy this packed with regressive obstructionists.
A little Rick Perry goes a very long way. →
Yet another clown in the race...
Rhymes with “scary” and is, just like clowns.
This is so bad.......
NYTimes: Rally Raises Anew Question of the Boundaries of Perry’s Faith
http://nyti.ms/n0f8mx
July 2011
5 posts
Now I get it. →
BO needs Harry like Bohner needs the Tea Party. Gimme a little more… I gotta protect my flank.
Yep. Double yep. →
It’s not about logic…
That's leadership. →
Republican adolescent leadership can’t look ahead because they’re being chased by Grover. Not the Sesame Street one.
Cantor is "a little taken aback"
Not far enough, sez I. NYTimes: Tensions Escalate as Stakes Grow in Fiscal Clash
http://nyti.ms/qtVKSJ
Sane Republican Angst →
Poor Brooks….
June 2011
3 posts
Huzzah for us! →
Self-referential, I know.
Speaking of tin ears.... →
Not unique in his conversations with the proletariat.
Rescuing News York
Just what NYC needs now! More bankers. Now maybe all the artists can find affordable lofts in a re-imagined trading floor in CT.
NYTimes: Regretting Move, Bank May Return to Manhattan
http://nyti.ms/j7OquZ