The “teachable moment” promised by president Obama which the hapless MSM dubbed teh Beer Summit has gone into the history books without so much as a footnoted burp. Fortunately— or not— some press monkey was thoughtful enough to bring a parabolic mike to the sidelines where the White House corralled the press core after an initial mingle moment, and has produced this remarkable transcript of the event.
The Goldman Borg to Obama: You will be assimilated Two Goldman Sachs related items. The first involves Goldman’s continuing takeover of the financial levers of power of the executive branch of the US government, a subject I’ve covered here and here. This week President Obama appointed Goldman’s Vice-Chairman Robert Hormats to the State Department as its undersecretary for economic, energy and …
You betcha we’re intrigued by the phrase “higher calling,”so we pushed our moose steaks aside and looked at the ten most likely possibilities for a wingnut ex-governor…
Glenn Beck tapping his lizard brain on health care reform This week belongs almost exclusively to the Bekasaurus, for sheer histrionic, over the top, bat shit losing it, as the audio below reveals. The context is the battle over health care reform, per a caller to his radio show. At about 1:25, the caller asks: What the hell is wrong …
Tick tock, tick tock… Euripides observed that those whom the gods would destroy they first make crazy. Today’s NY Times article, Palin’s Long March to a Short-Notice Resignation documents the Greek tragedy that has become Sarah Baradiva’s sorry little life. Proving that the law of karma is chock-a-block full with irony and not a little humor, the writers save the …
Why does it take 250,000 sperm to fertilize an egg?* What liberal leftist commie pinko came up with this agenda? * Resisting a “downsizing” of social security systems; * Support for labor unions and the rights of workers in a global economy marked by mobility of labor; * Combating hunger “by investing in rural infrastructures, irrigation systems, transport, organization of …
A decade ago, I was marooned along with a couple of dozen of other international tourists on the rocky lava islet of Palea Kameni, off the legendary Greek island of Thira (Santorini). While we were soaking in its geothermally heated pool, a violent storm suddenly blew into the Aegean. We were told that there was no way we could make …
