What should I do (with all of this fruit)?
So, I went blackberry picking this weekend, and now I have an unreasonable number of blackberries in my fridge. I made a cobbler last night – and I intend to make another – but...
Monthly Archive: August 2009
Trust and Good Faith
It’s taken me awhile to get to this – mostly because I’ve been (unusually) busy with real life – but I wanted to offer a few thoughts on Mark’s post on Wyden-Bennett, and particularly...
The Credibility Gap
[UPDATED] So, I mostly agree with the sentiment in this column, and find the dismissiveness (un-American?) displayed by Pelosi and Hoyer in this other column pretty depressing, even though I am not at all...
Ugh
Everyone should read Ezra Klein’s interview with Sen. Lindsay Graham. It’s good, and it should briefly give you hope that maybe there’s room for some kind of health care reform that actually makes sense...
Sunday Poem Series
La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats Ballad I. O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing. II. O what...
Quote of the Day
Rick Moran, on the demagoging of the health care debate by both sides: “We have entered a phase in the “debate” over health care where the two sides can’t lie enough about the other’s...
localism and free trade
Nathan has returned to blogging with quite a bloggy manifesto on some of my favorite topics – namely, localism, capitalism, and the struggle between free trade and the cultural side-effects of a consumerist, corporatist...
science blegs
1. If baryons and electrons and some other of the subatomic particles are only a small percentage of the stuff that constitutes the universe, why is it that they are the only thing that...
not the Europe we had in mind
Matt Yglesias points us to this chart, which is depressing enough on its own: Then, both he and Kevin Drum, go on to point out that job losses are likely going to be long-term....
health care comparison
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a great tool to compare all the various health care proposals side by side, issue by issue. Check it out.
quote for the early afternoon
“Let’s just say that this is no way for a civilized Republic to conduct its business.” ~ James Joyner on the “angry mobs” protesting Democratic Townhall meetings chanting such inanities as “Tyranny! Tyranny! Tyranny!
Is There Any Depth of Support for Wyden-Bennett?
TWO UPDATES, SEE BELOW: A common refrain I keep hearing for why Wyden-Bennett would have no chance of succeeding if it ever came to a vote is that even though it has bi-partisan co-sponsorship, the...
do unto others
Reuters takes the opposite approach from the AP or NewsCorp. Good for them. Writes Chris Aheam:
health care costs
What do we mean when we talk about the “rising costs of health care” in America? It’s a very ambiguous term with a lot of different possible meanings. We could mean the cost of...
Friday Genius Ten
One thing I’ve tried to do with regularity at my own digs is a “Friday Genius Ten.” The idea is pretty straightforward: you choose one song from your iTunes and run the “Genius” program,...
Wyden-Bennett (again)
The Wyden-Bennett “Healthy Americans Act” really is the most sensible health-care reform bill out there right now. I don’t think health care reform is a hill worth dying on for conservatives (there are other,...
moment of pen
Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen C. referred to Fancy Farm, KY (it has to do with the upcoming KY Senate Race in ’10) where he said “the pig s–t smells like perfume”. ...
The Darkness That Comes Before
How did I never hear of this book before? R. Scott Bakker’s first novel and the first in The Prince of Nothing series is, for lack of a better word, tremendous. I’m only about...
