Story time with uncle dick
Over at Politico, three intrepid journalists, Joe, Moe, and Curly, looked around Washington, and not seeing anything interesting or consequential going on, piled into the minivan for a trip to a dumpy,...
View ArticleHelen Speaks
One of the things I do in my free time, besides write this blog and drink to excess, is write the occasional love letter to Helen Thomas. Now, I don’t like to bother her. I only do it when she says...
View ArticleShoo, Blimp. I’ve Got a Sammy
Well, it turns out that sun and fun with the Koch brothers in Rancho Mirage more closely resembled life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, but thank heaven, the plutocrats were ready. The Kochs, you see, have an...
View ArticleEducation, Politico Style
Whenever I find myself in a good mood, and yet with a blog to write, I’m forced to go over to Politico to find something that will annoy me enough to drive me to drink, which usually leads to writing....
View ArticleDumb As A Post, But Cute
When you enter the alternative universe of Politico, it’s always a good idea to steel yourself against infantile false equivalencies, stunningly obvious conventional wisdom, and drearily repeated...
View ArticleHas Fox Gone Commie?
There was an absurd, likely planted story in Politico today about how Fox News had “moved to the left” here lately. I, personally, see no evidence of this. Looking at their website, a grueling,...
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The Seinfeld Candidate
An article in Politico today, ostensibly about Romney’s conspicuous lack of the “vision thing,” inadvertently revealed the Republican playbook dating back at least to Nixon. Reagan flack Ken...
View ArticleStupid White People
It was obvious that Mitt Romney would face something of a hostile audience at the NAACP convention today, given that Nixon’s comparatively subtle Southern Strategy has blossomed in the Obama era from...
View ArticleSore Losers
Although we all know you can’t spell Politico without POO, the story about Paul Ryan referring to Romney as “Stench” and Boston calling Ryan “Gilligan” certainly has the benefit of plausibility; after...
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Village Idiots, Continued
Against my better judgement, I wandered over to Politico for a little look-see at what was passing for Village Conventional “Wisdom” on this dreary Tuesday, and boy howdy, should I have stayed home....
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