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29 Jun ' 12:27
Bigger bang
Saw this yesterday. What a lovely idea: Small police departments across America are collecting battlefield-grade arsenals thanks to a program that allows them to get their hands on military surplus equipment – amphibious tanks, night-vision goggles, and even barber chairs …
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29 Jun ' 08:22
A pretty damn high cost
Been following the conservative freak-out over the health care ruling – my favorite is radio (of course) host Michael Savage, who noted that Roberts is on drugs for epilepsy and the drugs obviously colored his cognition/reasoning. Stay classy, folks. But …
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28 Jun ' 15:42
Right before our eyes
As we said perhaps a little too bluntly in the vid this week, to be uploaded soon – gee, I wonder what might be causing the horrific fires out west? So, is all this a grotesque display of climate change …
Jesus rode a dinosaur, you atheists have been dealt a stunning defeat
Presented without comment, except for: THOUSANDS of American school pupils are to be taught that the Loch Ness monster is real – in an attempt by religious teachers to disprove Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Pupils attending privately-run Christian schools …
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28 Jun ' 11:28
The end, beautiful friend
Honestly, if I had the time this week, which I don’t, I’d do a video where I just read all the overwrought tweets from right-wingers. Like this one! I’d wear a smoking jacket, maybe sit in an armchair – very …
No wonder Scalia was ticked
Wow. So I’m sitting there at the car shop, Fox News on – and here comes the verdict. Unbelievable. No wonder Scalia was pissed. The Fox crew was clearly irked, too. The main reporter, some Brooklyn-sounding guy, he’s obviously pissed/distraught. …
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28 Jun ' 06:34
Big day
Blogging destined to be light today, out of the office half the day – car trouble, oh yeah (and a big ’80s shout-out if you get the reference…) Health care ruling due today. Money seems to be on the court …
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27 Jun ' 14:06
Inadvertently speaking the truth
This one’s getting some headlines: This is Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Rep. Mike Turzai, Republican of Allegheny County. “Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania… done.” Why, whatever does he mean by …
Outsourcer-in-chief
All this hand-wringing over whether Obama’s Bain attack ads are going to work. Of course they’re going to work. Listen: Romney is the classic suit in the corner office who made the decision to downsize you, outsource your job. I’m …
Paying the price!
I like that a major international financial playa get fined a record amount for manipulating crucial interest rates, and its CEO… will forgo his bonus. That’ll learn him!
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27 Jun ' 09:59
Sometimes freedom means things you don’t like
Good letter over at Sullivan’s: Abortion is legal for the time being, as repugnant as many people find that legal reality to be. People can sit around and try to think up all the awful reasons that a woman might …
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26 Jun ' 13:26
Money for the right kind of schools
Will Bunch over at the Philly Inquirer: A NEW, big-money political-action committee turned up on the Pennsylvania radar screen this spring — at exactly the same time that the Philadelphia Archdiocese launched a full-court press for legislation in Harrisburg that …
On the border
Been following the Supreme Court decisions, in particularly the one regarding Arizona’s immigration law yesterday. The court upheld part of the law – “requiring police officers to verify immigration status during routine stops if they have a “reasonable” suspicion that …
A Republican for public education
From this weekend’s e-mail tray: Mr. Smart, I normally do not agree with your editorials, but “How to kill a public school” was spot on. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a Republican and a high school math …
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26 Jun ' 05:05
Right ball
Busy busy today. Have needed a cocktail since about 7:30 a.m. I know you know the feeling… Meanwhile, have at this one – Charles P. Pierce on how conservatism, or at least one of its lonely outposts, is trying to …
A few bucks here, a few bucks there and it all adds up
Taibbi’s latest. Go read. Complex as hell, but that how you’re bilked, by the complexity. Dancing With the Stars is so much easier to grasp… Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American …
The closer you get
Decent discussion going on over at LancTalk re: yesterday’s bit on the failure of Keynesianism, as I perceive it anyway. But the question comes up – OK, so Keynesianism isn’t the answer, so you say; and if the Republicans are …
Hundreds of channels, and thin skin
Now that was odd. Got off the phone a few moments ago with a PR rep from Comcast, who called out of the blue. Uhhh, what, are you going to offer me some sort of triple-play deal or something? Nope, …
True values
Busy busy today, lighter blogging as might have been noticed. But, wanted to post a bit of an e-mail I’d sent to a reader – I continue to get missives from those who think I need to reconsider my unease …
Just your imagination
Wife went to the grocery store earlier this week and came home stunned at the prices. As in, didn’t buy several things because the prices were so elevated. And then I see stuff like this, which basically mocks the idea …
That’s one for you, 19 for me
Brian Beutler on how the GOP House plan/Ryan budget stacks up for you. Hint: Not real well, unless you’ve got large piles of money sitting around, unused. This time around, Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee, with the help of …
The more money the billionaires give, the healthier our democracy
Or maybe I should make that our “democracy”: Campaign Donations Prove Civic Health The Supreme Court in Citizens United and other cases appears to be edging toward a reversal of Buckley v. Valeo. There may be five votes in favor …
Privatizing the state stores: It’s never going to happen
You know, if this can’t get done with a Republican governor and a Republican legislature, it’s never going to get done: The Legislature’s leading advocate of privatizing liquor and beer sales in Pennsylvania has thrown in the towel — at …
Irrational demands
This should be a simple concept, but some people have no end of trouble with it. So, let’s let John T. Harvey review: Today on Face the Nation (hosted by fellow Horned Frog, Bob Schieffer), I heard Mitt Romney add …
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15 Jun ' 12:53
Who they work for
Taibbi with more on how our erudite Senators treated that nice Mr. Dimon earlier this week: This was an opportunity to show Americans how a too-big-to-fail commercial bank like Chase – supported by vast amounts of public treasure, from Fed …
‘Iraq in spring 2008 was basically Tet in Vietnam’
I didn’t know/read that. Did you? On the 23rd of March one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the war broke out right there in Sadr City. The Mahdi Army rose up to overthrow the occupation. Our rules of …
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