Ever since I found out Al “We’re all going to die” Gore’s mansion requires its own small spotted owl-fired power plant to heat the pool, I’ve started to suspect politicians may be duplicitous as a group. So I’m not surprised to find out yet another politician turns out to be a falsely sincere hypocrite. No, [...]
From the I Think I Just Threw Up in my Mouth a Little Bit Department:
The senate just voted to go ahead with the $300B mortgage bailout. As usual, it was accompanied by much self-righteous chest thumping from our ever generous politicians:
“What better gift on independence could we give the American people than a sense that [...]
Let’s just be honest: this whole primary has both race and gender playing far more of a role than anybody wants to admit. Enough so that it’s a bit scary for the future of our union. Some of this is the inevitable Balkanization that goes along with hard times, and of course most of it is that [...]
For a group that is so focused fairness and justice, Democratic leaders seem to have a really shaky understanding of at least one of them. From watching their tortured machinations in trying to handle the Florida and Michigan primaries, the nation is learning a lot about the way Democratic politicians think, and might help explain [...]
Yesterday there was a horrible crash on our commuter rail in Boston. One train drove into another that was stopped at a control light before a station. (Below is a map of the rough crash site.) Both were westbound trains, and the crash happened on a straightaway above ground. In other words, it’s hard to [...]
The three remaining candidates for president, even the “Republican” one, have all recently come out with pandering proposals to placate the masses over oil prices. McCain and Clinton have banded together over a gas tax holiday, an idea so hopelessly without merit that you can’t find a working economist who thinks otherwise. According to Greg [...]
After the recent PA debate, Obama’s people complained that much of the time was wasted on cheap personal politics. I can see their point, and the moderators seemed to be overcompensating for criticism that the media has been too easy on Obama. However, maybe the reason Obama’s people want us to focus on the personal [...]
