2014 archive
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Better–back under 300K.
(snip)
The four-week average, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, dropped to 293,500, the lowest since February 2006, from 297,500 the week before.
In one reassuring development, Bloomberg’s “experts” are back into their rhythm. The predicted an increase.
“Get Off My Lawn” 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a longer post about Teabaggery’s record of failure in this year’s Republican Primaries, Dick Polman buries this nugget:
Facing the Music 0
There has been a fascinating exchange in the Roanoke Times, one that illustrates well the mean-spiritedness that underlies wingnuttery. I’ll let it speak for itself.
Part one (which I mentioned here in these electrons).
Southern Strategy Redux 2
The Republican Party just can’t let go.
Chauncey Devega is blunt (follow the link for the entire piece):
First daughter said last night that, if President Obama and the Democrats are indeed waging a war on white folks, “it must be very covert.”
Twits on Twitter 0
Very Special Twits.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Dispose of your weapons politely.
You can’t make this stuff up.
School for Scamdal 0
After the fifth investigation has deemed that the Republican fuss over Benghazi was all smoke and mirrors, Republicans are launching yet another investigation so as to stir up their base. This one will be led by one Tray Gowdy (R–Cloud Cuckoo Land).
Dick Polman’s comments are worth a read; here’s a nugget:
For those folks, the empirical findings in the House Intelligence Committee report (which has to be declassified by the intelligence community) won’t matter a whit. There is a “paranoid style in American politics,” as the esteemed historian Richard Hofstadter famously wrote, characterized by “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy,” and any congressional panel that fails to feed the mindset must surely be part of the conspiracy
Jim Wright also reviews the events at Stonekettle Station. Here’s a bit:
For two years conservatives have been demanding “the truth.”
And they’ve got it.
By their own hand, from their own people.
And suddenly, the party of personal accountability is strangely quiet on Benghazi.
But then it really wasn’t the truth they were after, was it?
Suffer the Children 0
Dick Polman:
So what does the GOP do, in the one chamber of government it controls? It OKs a crackdown measure drafted in part by the likes of Michele Bachmann (she’s ecstatic about the House action, which tells you all you need know). In short, the GOP has opted to become known as the deportation party.
The Marquis de Sade, were he alive today, would be a Republican.
Why I Am Fed Up with Professional Sports, Reason Googleplex 0
I am fed up with sports because this can be considered newsworthy by a major newspaper:
Parking Wars 0
I akways knew that Philly was tough on parking.
He steps out of the car, “I hit my clicker,” the automatic door lock, “it makes a ‘hoo-hoo’ noise” and Yan heads for the curb to feed the meter. He sees a parking-enforcement officer writing a ticket.
“Where did you come from?” asks the startled parking-enforcement officer, Alfred Toto.
“From the driver’s seat,” Yan says, trying not to sound smart-alecky. “I assume you’re not giving me a ticket.”
“Your meter has expired,” says Toto.