“I’ve always been nice to people. I don’t drink or dance or swear. I’ve even kept kosher just to be on the safe side.” – Ned Flanders One of the nicer things about living in a time when there is a practically unlimited amount of political information and opinion on-line is that one is no [...]
Archive for April 2011
The Judgments of the Lord . . .
Offshore Surrender
“Yeah, it’s a crummy system, but what are you gonna do?” – Homer Simpson Last week, in response to the Levin Report that establishes beyond even a shadow of a doubt that Goldman Sachs is essentially an organized crime ring focused on financial fraud, Matt Taibbi wondered why politicians don’t hammer them for it. It’s [...]
Give War a Chance (Part II)
“And now, to cut the ribbon, the legendary DOOP captain who just returned from a triumphant carpet bombing of Eden 7, Zapp Brannigan.” – Glab As NATO’s adventure in Libya rolls past the one month mark and gets ready to send a few officers to Benghazi to help organize the rebels, there is plenty of [...]
The Mandate of Heaven
The Mental State of Secrets
“Say, what’s that? It looks dangerous.” – Ms. Mellon “Well, it’s really pretty top secret, ma’am.” – Bart Simpson “Alright, keep going, but you do know what happens when you mix acids and bases, right?” – Ms. Mellon “Course I do.” – Bart Simpson American hero Daniel Ellsberg once drafted a memo for Henry Kissinger [...]
The High Cost of Loyalty
“You play pretty well for someone with no real problems.” – Bleeding Gums Murphy On Tuesday, on the topic of why the Blues freely and routinely trash their core constituencies while the Reds live in perpetual fear of theirs, Glenn Greenwald asks a question to which he doesn’t have an answer: But what I do [...]
Show Trial
“I move for a bad court thingy.” – Lionel Hutz There is little left to be said about the Obama Administration’s decision that the immediate political relief of arbitrarily imprisoning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed outweighs the costs of giving him a real trial. It was a long time coming, and had been written on the wall [...]
The Long Road to Tampa
“How do you feel about it helping to be crazy to work here, but not being necessary?” – Ipgee the Cryogenics Guy As we enter the fourth month of 2011, no serious Reds have officially declared their candidacies for the White House. They resemble nothing so much as a pack of children nervously eyeing a [...]
