Archive for December, 2007
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
What Are Nutter’s Priorities
Yippee for Mayor-elect Nutter for squeezing a couple of million dollars out of the patronage haven parking authority for the city’s public schools.
What better way to get out of the mess of abysmal student performance. That’s the knee-jerk response, throw more money at a failed system. The feel-good solution for inept, career [...]
Sweeney Todd, The Review
I saw Sweeney Todd at the movies last night. It was a mixed bag. The movie was very faithful to the script, which I applaud. On the other hand, it took awhile for Depp to find his footing (and he never really decided on an accent), Helena Bonham Carter was either miscast [...]
Read More..>>A Question About Opiates
Juan Cole has a post up today about the US’s Top Ten Challenges in the Middle East for 2008. I’ll be the first to admit that I am out of my depth when it comes to opining on what needs to be done, but the following graf:
Farmers need aid to be weaned off [...]
Looking at America, Looking at the NY Times
Looking At America, Shitting On Our Values
There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of prisoners by Central [...]
Open Letter to the New York Times, Which Has Lost Its Mind
To the Editors, the Publisher, the President, and the Rank and File (whose good name is besmirched):
I have heard that you have hired the utterly discredited neo-conservative William Kristol to write a weekly column. I am aghast at this decision: Mr. Kristol was one of the loudest voices agitating for war in Iraq, and [...]
Musharraf
They Blame Musharraf
It doesn’t, after all, take much to comprehend that the hated elections looming over Musharraf would probably be postponed indefinitely if his principal political opponent happened to be liquidated before polling day.
So let’s run through this logic in the way that Inspector Ian Blair might have done in his policeman’s notebook before [...]
Department of Spilt Milk
Poor, poor Linda Zimmerman. She’s just not very bright.
Consider Linda Zimmerman, a 50-year-old sheep farmer from Thurmont, Md. Her daughter and son-in-law are having trouble keeping up with two mortgages on a town house, she said. One street in her neighborhood has five homes for sale, and one has been on the market for [...]
Annoying
You know what’s annoying?
Waiting all week for Ntflx to sendyour copy of the original George Hearn/Angela Lansbury presentation of “Sweeney Todd”, setting aside Friday night to watch it, putting it in the player… and finding out they sent you the soundtrack on cd by mistake. I’m not exactly one for musicals, but Sweeney Todd [...]
Ron Paul Makes Markos Nervous
“Until then, he doesn’t even reach “Ross Perot-like nut” status. I worry about Huckabee. I used to worry about Giuliani. But Paul? Nah. He is what he is — fringe.”
Dear Markos:
If you’re so un-worried about Paul, why have you written two front-page posts going after him? I thought this blog was dedicated to [...]
Why No One Cares About Biden
Matt Bai, in a colum inappropriately titled “Joe Biden, Briefly” wonders why Biden can’t get more traction as a candidate. You can go read it for yourself.
For starters, there is NOTHING brief about Joe Biden: I was surprised that he didn’t show up to help Dodd derail; the FISA legislation, because there is NOTHING [...]
