it would be apoplexy….
… from Mac fans if this or this had been the doing of Microsoft or Steve Ballmer. But it was Apple and Steve Jobs, so it’ll be stony silence, or yet more hero worship,...
Monthly Archive: August 2009
Holy S@#t/Depressing Fact of the Day
From Time’s Tim McGirk: Law enforcement officials say that a wildfire now raging in Santa Barbara’s Los Padres National park, burning more than 136 square miles, was sparked by a cooking fire started by...
Friday Night Jukebox: Now usually I don’t do this . . .
Given Pitchfork’s recent decision to recognize “Ignition (Remix)” as one of the greatest songs of the decade, I thought I’d re-post this entry from a few months back: R. Kelly’s legal troubles – as...
Ramadan mubarak!
Happy Ramadan to Aziz and other (if there are other) Muslim readers of this blog. And, well, to Muslims everywhere for that matter.
do nothing
Interesting column from Bruce Bartlett. I honestly haven’t made up my mind where I stand on the stimulus. There are many competing theories on how best to implement stimulus. Monetary policy? Fiscal policy? Should...
quote for a friday afternoon
“Let’s see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I’ve got nothing against her. She’s a remarkable political talent. But...
Crickets
National Review’s response to former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s allegation that Bush pressured him to raise the terror alert status on the eve of the 2004 election is this stirring post from Kathryn...
Thoughts on the Renewed Violence in Iraq
Steve Hynd over at Newshoggers has a very sharp post comparing aspects of the Afghanistan and Iraqi missions. Worth the read. I’m not quite sure about this: But whatever the root causes, the Iraqi...
None dare call it justice
Following Freddie’s lead, I confess I’m rather baffled by Alex Massie’s sympathetic take on the Lockerbie Bomber’s release. As I understand it, this is a man duly convicted of murdering hundreds of innocent airline...
Correctly Political: Wealth Care, a Historical Note
~by jfxgillis Okay. So here’s the thing about the health care industry in the USA, especially the insurance sector. It stinks. Everyone knows it. Everyone feels it. We pay more for what we get, and we...
From the department of nonapologies
You know, Marc, maybe you should just stop digging. Just a thought.
The Public Option’s Problems
Dave Schuler has a good discussion of the pros and (mostly) cons of a public option as a critical (or even worthwhile) element of health care reform, including a potential constitutional impediment that seems...
The Singapore Model & DeLong Care
In my post today I write about how Brad DeLong has come up with a totally unrealistic, but pretty good idea on reigning in health costs and covering the uninsured. (He came up with...
DeLong Care
By way of this post, Matt Yglesias explains why he likes Brad DeLong’s “totally unrealistic health care plan.” First, to boil down DeLong’s rather long post on the subject, let me lift this excellent...
life and death sentences
You can count me among those who, in regards to the Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi situation, think a life sentence means just that– you spend the rest of your life in prison, and it doesn’t...
Irony of the Day – Lockerbie Bomber Edition
“Also, is it just me or is it rather surreal that he’s flying home on a commercial airliner (not Pan American, which ceased operations long before al-Megrahi ever went to trial) and climbing stairs...
Glenn Greenwald
is entirely right, and on the occasion of his post, I say again that the culturally and socially liberal leanings of many reporters cannot begin to overwhelm the reflexive, self-congratulatory political anti-leftism of the...
