Archive for the 'nincompoopery' Category
Deep Thought
The well-groomed brokers and traders bent on sticking up for Wall Street gathered on Wednesday in best-behaved form — no chanting, no shrill whistling, pretty much no noise at all — to mark the formation of the financial world’s modest alternative to the Tea Party movement.
Things had gotten entirely too annoying. First it was White [...]
Tom Friedman Can’t Count
The Times is going back behind a firewall. Which means we won’t get to laugh at Tom Friedman’s bizarre method of counting:
“As we got into it, it was clear to me I was getting cut off from a lot of my readers in India and China where 50 dollars per year would be equal to [...]
Philly Weekly on the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
When i wrote yesterday about the idiotic liquor laws in Pennsylvania, I had no idea Tom Cowell at the Weekly was writing such a thorough takedown. It’s a must read:
The wine vending machine serves as the perfect metaphor for the failures of Pennsylvania’s Capone-era alcohol policy: An absurd, patronizing and pointless rip-off that by rights [...]
Investment Advice from Tom Friedman
As a rule of thumb, i don’t take investment advice from people who have been wrong about everything. That’s why, when I read Tom Friedman’s column urging investors:
I am reluctant to sell China short, not because I think it has no problems or corruption or bubbles, but because I think it has all those [...]
Pennsie’s Stupid Liquor laws (for non-resident readers)
For those of you who’ve never visited Pennsylvania, our liquor laws are second only to Utah in terms of stupidity. Even Connecticut, where the stores close at 8:00 PM, has better policy than PA.
In almost every other state, the unit by which beer is sold is the 6-pack. But in PA, it’s by [...]
Joe Lieberman is Laughing at the Democrats
joe Lieberman, doing exactly what i said he would do a year ago:
Mr. Lieberman threatened on national television to join the Republicans in blocking the health care bill, President Obama’s chief domestic initiative. Within hours, he was in a meeting at the Capitol with top White House officials.
And on Monday night, Democratic senators emerged from [...]
Stu Bykofsky’s Temper Tantrum
Oh dear. Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky is having a temper tantrum about bicycles. Let’s take a look and see if we can count the inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and mistakes in his latest “when-I-was-a-boy-we-ate-wool-and-we-liked-it” freakout.
JUMP ON MY handlebars. Let’s go for a ride.
Almost guaranteed to be a fiction: in all probability, Stu didn’t ride a [...]
Philadelphia’s Proposed Bike Laws are the Product of Morons.
Dan U-A breaks down Philly’s proposed new bike laws. They are idiotic, developed by two morons, Jim Kenney, who obviously haven’t been on a bicycle since they were children:
As we all know by now, Councilmen Kenney and DiCicco have decided that the city needs new laws to regulate bicycles. These proposed regulations include:
1) That [...]
How to Avoid Being in an Embarrassing Sex Tape
It seem every couple of weeks someone’s private sex tape becomes public. Paris Hilton. Pam Anderson. Fred Durst. That dude from “Saved by the Bell” (ok, he released his to make a couple of bucks). Carrie Prejean. Tonya Harding.
And now Jenny from the Block is suing her ex to “keep him from making their [...]
“Billion” is the new “Million”
I was listening to the Nice Polite Republicans talking about Medicare this morning, and I noticed something funny:
since nothing scares politicians more than angry senior citizens, who are traditionally among the largest bloc of voters in midterm elections, the real issue facing Congress isn’t whether to stop the doctor pay cuts — which are the [...]
