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This blog belongs in a museum

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

If you’ve ever wondered who would win a fist fight between James Bond and Indiana Jones, the answer is…
James Bond. But then Indy would shoot him with a pistol that happened to be lying on the ground.
We’ve been watching the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles via Netflix, and in one episode, a young and unbilled Daniel [...]

No, no, Nanette

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Despite all of their complaining about curses, it seems to me that Red Sox fans are among the luckiest fans in the world.

Georgia

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Since it’s well-known that John McCain is unfamiliar with the Internets, I can only assume it’s a staffer’s fault that the straight-talk express seemingly plagarized Wikipedia in a speech on Georgia-Russia relations.
About the Russian invasion itself: although one’s first instinct is to side with a small country unfortunate enough to share a border with [...]

"Patriotism is putting the country first,… before anything"

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

A couple of days ago, Obama delivered an honest and heart-felt oration about the meaning of patriotism. Naturally, John McCain responded by giving his own speech on patriotism.(*) Hilariously, he did so by saying things so completely crazy and unhinged from reality that he can’t possibly mean them.
If John McCain were to mention in [...]

The party of environmental protection; spoiled-brat edition

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

It’s hard to fathom the Bush Administration’s capacity for willful incompetence:
The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week. [...]
Over the past [...]

Maybe Madison could jump on this bandwagon

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

How fitting:
[T]he Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
The plan, naturally hatched in a bar, would place a vote on the November ballot to provide “an appropriate honor for a [...]

Thought for the day, part 2

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some kind of “Democratic Party” that could stand up for civil liberties? Maybe this hypothetical organization would take the position that granting immunity to companies that broke the law to help the White House illegally spy on American citizens is a bad idea. I bet that would be [...]

Thought for the day

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

It would be nice if we had two political parties in this country, instead of one political party and one rent-seeking scam perpetrated on the American public by a bunch of crooks.
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All you need to know about Republican economic policy, from National Review

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

“This idea of rewarding work instead of wealth is just insane.”
But they’re the party of working Americans. They say so themselves.

Illinois, corrupt governors, and “Do the right thing”

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Via tee bee, I see that Illinois’s corrupt governor is rapidly losing the support of his own party.
I have a theory that the most corrupt places are those where one party is dominant, but not to the extent that party members are comfortable with the idea of taking on incumbent office-holders.
When parties are closely matched, [...]

Joy in Mudville!

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The snowbank in front of the mailbox is down to a couple feet, the daffodils are poking out of the ground, the robins have been here for a while, and tomorrow is Opening Day.

A modest political axiom

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

A pretty good rule of thumb when it comes to analyzing proposed ideas: when the government rolls out a plan to give X wide new power, it’s a bad idea, regardless of the plan or the identity of X. Plans like this come about because the people in charge don’t know what to do; [...]

Subprime comics

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Genius.

Lies, damned lies, and Republican budgets

Monday, February 4th, 2008

George Bush last week:
Just as we trust Americans with their own money, we need to earn their trust by spending their tax dollars wisely. Next week, I’ll send you a budget that terminates or substantially reduces 151 wasteful or bloated programs, totaling more than $18 billion. The budget that I will submit will keep America [...]

The state of our union is tired of George Bush

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Aside from petulantly insisting that Congress “must” do things, he has absolutely nothing to say. At least his opportunities for inflicting his oratory on a country that long ago stopped listening are rapidly running out. He’ll have a speech at the GOP convention, and he’ll probably gin up an “important” announcement from the Oval Office [...]