Because Soshalism, That’s Why!

Further evidence of the Kenyan Mooslim’s utter failure to grasp the essentials of free market economics. Bonus flashback [Huffpo link]: On the auto bailout, despite GM going public last week and sending billions of dollars back to taxpayers, Perry still insisted that it wasn’t successful and said the federal government shouldn’t be involved in private [...]

Sanity in Texas!

Dallas, even! Home of Mark Cuban Now, Cuban’s politics are generally a bit bonkers, to put it excessively kindly — he is, (wait for it) a Randian, seemingly of the high-functioning sort, and endorsed Michael Bloomberg in the 2008 election (sic!)  This time around, he’s signed on to one of those centrist third party rich-guys’ [...]

When Romney Meets Perry

Thanks to the wonders of my wayback machine, I gained this glimpse of the likely course of the first Romney-Perry exchange in the GOP Presidential primary debates: You’re welcome.

Eternal Vigilance…

… is the condition upon which God hath given liberty to man, you know. And while “liberty” is rapidly rising to the level of “patriotic” as a word as hollow as Annie Dillard’s frog, all of John Philpot Curran’s fury still holds iwhen we’re talking the defense of our own minds in the face of [...]

You Know It’s Tough All Over…

…When even the usually reliable Carl Hiaasen can’t crack a joke. I’m a devoted reader of Hiaasen’s fiction — I’ve even tracked down one of his early co-authored novels.  And while rage at what the greedheads and buffoons have done to his beloved Florida animates everything he writes, he’s managed to retain both a capacity [...]

My Kindergartener Could Solve Differential Equations Better Than That

Man, I so need a break from politics now.  Given that the Party of Lincoln has decisively transformed itself into that of — oh who the hell knows…say Tomato Hookworm-Space Aliens, and we can’t seem to build asylums fast enough to cage the crazy, I just hit the wall. I know that I haven’t been [...]

What I learned on my summer vacation — thanks to an 11 YO boy…

…obsessed with Top Gear: This factoid, for one thing, retailed somewhere on the long journey north and east of Mt. Diablo into the uninhabited quadrant of California: “Daddy:  did you know that the Zonda R has got a V-12 engine and weighs less than a Ford Fiesta?” “Why no, son.  I did not.” But, good [...]

Send in the Clowns

It’s the end game in Tripoli. From the Guardian’s live feed on events there: 10.45pm: Libyan rebels are now within two miles of the centre of Tripoli, AP reports… …and this: 11.04pm: Al Jazeera is reporting that two of Gaddafi’s sons, Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi, have been arrested and another son, Muhammad, has surrendered. And [...]

A Stranger in a Strange Land

I’m not saying Mitt Romney won’t be the Republican nominee next year — though if I were a betting man, I’d lay a small wager (pizza scale, not rent money) that he’ll fall short. But I do believe that planners at the DOD see Romney’s ear as the US Strategic Tin Reserve — and that [...]

Barney Frank has written a clear, detailed and carefully reasoned explanation of why he voted against the debt ceiling bill.  It’s long enough to send most of it below the jump, but I want to highlight on the front page what my congressman had to say about our job now: Dear Friend, I appreciate you [...]