In an unintentionally ironic commentary on CNN, Republican John Feehery warns that now that the Democrats have a 60 seat majority in the Senate (with Senator Al Franken), we can expect such horrors as The Metric System (are you scared yet?)! What will this lead to? Soft drinks sold in liter bottles? Oh yeah, they […]
The USA Today headline proclaims: Madoff ordered to forfeit $170B And the first line of the article says “Diisgraced financier Bernard Madoff has been ordered to forfeit over $170 billion, prosecutors said Friday.” Yes, they really did spell it “Diisgraced”. But the “bigger” point is that if Madoff actually had $170 billion to forfeit, […]
The latest installment of the Mark Sanford saga is that in his original confession about his lover in Argentina, he, uh, failed to tell the entire truth (he lied). Now he wants to “lay it all out” (as he inconveniently put it) and has added several additional romantic liaisons with his girlfriend that he failed […]
This is absolutely nuts: The quote from Michael Scheuer is “The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.” Glenn Beck agrees. In today’s Wall Street Journal is an opinion piece about how dysfunction helps the GOP. It […]
When even The Economist says that our health care system needs overhauling — calling it the costliest in the world but with patchy quality — and (shock!) Walmart supports reforming health care — including a mandate that requires large employers to provide health insurance — you know that America wants real health care reform. The only […]
“What’s especially sad is that most people of a certain generation only know Michael Jackson as a crazy guy who had a lot of plastic surgery — whereas the truth is, he was not only an unbelievably talented, groundbreaking performer, he also helped break down the racial prejudice in this country. He was an extremely […]
Great story from Willie Brown: I got into a cab Friday, and the driver asked, “Was Michael Jackson a Republican?” “I don’t think so. Why?” “He managed to knock both that two-timing South Carolina governor and that two-timing, Bible-thumping senator from Nevada off the front page. Republicans haven’t gotten that much help from a black […]
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The next time a pundit claims that a public option will put private health insurance companies out of business and lead to socialized health care, I hope someone asks them how UPS, Fedex, and hundreds of other smaller delivery companies are still in business, despite having to compete with the US Post Office. This is […]
I’m not sure if this is a joke, and I suspect it is, but a few sites (here, here, and here) are reporting that a (suspiciously unnamed) Russian luxury yacht company is offering pirate hunting cruises off the coast of Somalia. Not only do they hope to get attacked by Pirates, they guarantee it (or […]
A graph printed in the NY times arranges the states according to their divorce rate, teenage birthrate, and (perhaps most telling of all) their subscriptions to online porn sites. So, which states would you think would lead in these “sin” statistics? Red States, the home of family values, moral rectitude, and social conservatives? Or Blue […]
