Americans hate to be told they are stupid. Or that some other country might have come up with a better idea because its not lugging around a huge chip on its shoulder. However, sometimes, the truth needs to be heard. Especially among that peculiar and despicable breed : teabaggus whinus.
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The reason they don't like to hear…..
Americans hate to be told they are stupid. Or that some other country might have come up with a better idea because its not lugging around a huge chip on its shoulder. However, sometimes, the truth needs to be heard. Especially among that peculiar and despicable breed : teabaggus whinus.
Continue readingClimate change and me……..
The Copenhagen summit begins this week-and frankly, if I were over there I would be more interested in how I could get my hands on one of those government flyers. However, I had the misfortune to read this headline from the Town Hall Harlot today: These are 56 newspapers that
Continue readingMore about Obama in Japan
And how much most Americans do not know about one of their most important allies. Item 1. The bow that has the citizens of greater wingnuttia so upset. Here’s a dose of reality from our British cousins: They were nothing of the sort: the handshake, though not strictly necessary, has
Continue readingDoes size matter?
Evidently it does when you talking about douche teabaggers: But yesterday, someone told a real whopper. ABC News, citing the DC fire department, reported that between 60,000 and 70,000 people had attended the tea party rally at the Capitol. By the time this figure reached Michelle Malkin, however, it had
Continue readingMarket selfishness
One of the more interesting things about the health care debate in this country-is the argument being made that the free market does not, of itself, impose any sort of rationing on health care services. Ezra Klein recently did a pretty good job blowing a hole in that theory: "Look
Continue readingThe difference between then and now……….
nihilism (uncountable) (philosophy) Extreme skepticism, maintaining that nothing has a real existence. (ethics) The rejection of all moral principles. (politics) (capitalized by protagonist Turgenev) A Russian anarchistic revolutionary doctrine (1860-1917) holding that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake, independent
Continue readingConsider the alternative……….
While all the folks in the echo chamber, are getting their panties in bunch-because Ezra Klein had the wherewithal to suggest that America needs a more educated electorate– it might be useful to consider where we would be, if the other side had won. Which it very well could have,
Continue readingMaybe I will reconsider
I was thinking about buying a Kindle. Now I think I will wait a while. People who bought Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm for their Kindle were surprised to discover that it had disappeared from their devices overnight. It turns out the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic
Continue readingAdvice that is not wanted….
Even though it is needed. Wonder how long it will be before the usual crowd, starts questioning Peggy Noonan’s party affiliation again? I have no valid reason not to like Sonia Sotomayor from the evidence at hand. Its only a hunch-from short exposure to her on TV. However I would
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