On April 1, Car and Driver magazine ran a joke story claiming Obama had ordered GM and Chrysler to stop participating in NASCAR. It was pretty funny, and I’d link to it except that they already took the story down. But apparently Ann Coulter got fooled, writing: If Obama can tell GM and Chrysler that […]
Apparently while I was on vacation, a steady stream of former White House figures decided they needed to appear on TV in an attempt to rewrite the legacy of the Bush administration. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have taken the time to get their stories straight. For example, Condoleezza Rice recently told Charlie Rose that […]
Chris Weigant has a beautiful April 1 column in the Huffington Post today in the form of a speech by President Obama. What makes it especially beautiful is the fact that every item in the speech is not only completely silly, but is based on a narrative that has actually been pushed by the media. […]
Jon Swift has an excellent column that explains something that has baffled liberals for a long time — why is it that when a liberal does something that is attacked as bad, a conservative can do exactly the same thing, but it is OK? The example du jour is Bristol Palin, who is now officially […]
It is interesting that the 2005 Bankruptcy Bill, the one that made it more difficult for normal people to declare bankruptcy because of, say, crushing medical bills or home mortgages that suddenly ballooned, had another provision buried in the fine print. This provision, which was pushed for by by the investment banking industry, made many […]
Jon Stewart points out the stupidity of pundits who criticize Obama when the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops:
One of my pet peeves is that when your typical corporation has an epic failure, they often just treat it as a image problem, and hire a PR firm rather than actually try to fix the problem itself. The latest example is AIG, whose record epic failure (they just posted the biggest loss in all […]
Jon Stewart sums up the CPAC convention, using conservatives’ own words. Hilarious.
A new study published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives finds that areas in the US that are more conservative or religious than average tend to purchase more online pornography than average. Or as the author of the study puts it “Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the […]
I had to think twice about posting this article, because my posting this is itself ironic (isn’t it my job to be making fun of other people’s irony and hypocrisy?). But here goes anyway. It has long bothered me that the mainstream media often gives a platform to people who really don’t deserve one, because […]
Quotes from the annual conservative CPAC conference in Washington: From Newt Gingrich: The great irony of where we are today is that we had a Bush-Obama big-spending program that was bipartisan in its nature. … We got big spending under Bush, now we’ve got big spending under Obama. Saul Anuzis (who campaigned for the chairmanship of […]
Andrew Tobias has a brilliant article about taxes. You should read the whole thing, but if you’re too lazy, here’s just the start of it: Be honest: Is the reason you’re not investing in stocks these days (a) the prospect of having to pay 15% capital gains tax? Or (b) the fear of further losses? […]
Several sites have mentioned that when Bobby Jindal gave the Republican rebuttal to Obama’s Congressional address last night, he sounded like the clueless hillbilly Kenneth the Page from 30 Rock. I might be showing my age, but to me he sounded like Mister Rogers addressing young children (except more patronizing). What do you think? Also […]
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