Archive for May, 2009
A Radical Palate
Via the comments, I see that the we are only beginning to understand the magnitude of the liberal/Dijon conspiracy: Today, Judge Sotomayor’s culinary tastes range from tuna fish and cottage cheese for lunch with clerks in her chambers, to her standard order at the Blue Ribbon Bakery: smoked sturgeon on toast, with Dijon mustard, onions [...]
May 27, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
97 Comments
Posted in: Food, General Stupidity
Ricci and the Republicans
Two smart posts over at Eunomia about the Ricci case, First, this: An important point about the case that has been left out in many accounts is this: In part, the city’s reaction was defensive. Because of the magnitude of the racial disparity on the exams, which would have ensured that white firefighters received the [...]
May 27, 2009
· John Cole · 41 Comments
Posted in: Politics
More Of This, Please
I like it when Big Media Matt gets his dander up: But for all that, I have to say that I am really truly deeply and personally pissed off my the tenor of a lot of the commentary on Sonia Sotomayor. The idea that any time a person with a Spanish last name is tapped [...]
May 27, 2009
· John Cole · 124 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Better Than Lauria
I’ll also note that the GM bondholders seem to have learned something from the pathetic and idiotic performance of the non-Tarp bondholders in the Chrysler bankruptcy. Rather than run around squealing like a stuck pig yelling that the administration played hardball with them, whimpering on anyone’s shoulder who would listen, the GM bondholders apparently have [...]
May 27, 2009
· John Cole · 70 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Better Than Trabant, But Not By Much
This is just a disaster in the making: In better times, many employees of General Motors called their company “Generous Motors” because of its rich benefits. Now G.M. may stand for something else: Government Motors. The latest plan for the troubled automaker, which is expected to file for bankruptcy by Monday, calls for the Treasury [...]
May 27, 2009
· John Cole · 22 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, Domestic Affairs
Looked a lot like Che Guevara
Still not the J-Lo comparison, I’ve been hoping for, but it’s a start, from Powerline (via the Opinionator): Che Guevara in robes.
May 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 74 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
Let them drink Veuve Yellow Label
There’s long been a theory that certain parts of the luxury goods market are recession proof. I guess not: Britain’s millionaires, who more than doubled in number between 2003 and 2007 as property prices soared, have seen their wealth drop by almost a quarter in the past year, the CEBR said. “It looks as though [...]
May 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 12 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, Other
Know when to fold ‘em
There’s two things that jump out about the Sotomayor nomination: (1) the Village has a major hard-on for that New Haven affirmative action case (here; here; here) and (2) the Republicans are in a tough bind politically with this choice. Jay Newton-Small sums up the second point pretty clearly: It’s no wonder that so many [...]
May 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 121 Comments
Posted in: Media, Politics
Pens Advance
Pens win game four by a score of 4-1. Lord Stanley’s Cup hangs in the balance.
May 26, 2009
· John Cole · 55 Comments
Posted in: Sports
The Only Real Decision
I talked about this in the comments earlier, but this NY Times piece gets to the nut of the matter: President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has put the Republican Party in a bind, as it weighs the cost of aggressively opposing Mr. Obama’s attempt to put the first Hispanic on [...]
May 26, 2009
· John Cole · 165 Comments
Posted in: Politics
Pens v. Hurricanes
In progress. *** Update *** Tyler Kennedy is flying around the ice like a damned madman. He really is defining hustle right now.
May 26, 2009
· John Cole · 10 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Open Thread
More pets going Galt: I don’t know how it is where you live, but it has been raining for two days and I’m tired of it. I guess it is good for the garden.
May 26, 2009
· John Cole · 50 Comments
Posted in: Cat Blogging, Dog Blogging
Almost 100% of the People Who Visit Emergency Rooms Bleeding Need Medical Attention
A question in the comments, reacting to the cable television coverage of the Sotomayor nomination: Um, where did this “90% of her opinions have been overturned.” crap come from? Limbaugh, like you needed to be told: I doubt that Sotomayor can be stopped. She should be. She is a horrible pick. She is the antithesis [...]
May 26, 2009
· John Cole · 110 Comments
Posted in: Politics
No One Could Have Predicted- Sotomayor Edition
Your quote of the day: Conservatives are already citing my initial piece on Sotomayor as a basis for opposing her. – Jeffrey Rosen Yes. We are all shocked to see that development. No one could have predicted that an anonymously sourced hit piece focusing on Sotomayor’s alleged inability to serve as an “intellectual counterweight to [...]
May 26, 2009
· John Cole · 103 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
Klein Is Right- Specter Needs a Primary Opponent
I agree with this assessment: Democrats, from the President on down, are trying to get Congressman Joe Sestak to back off, to let Arlen Specter have a free run for the U.S. Senate, as a Democrat from Pennsylvania. Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but it seems to me that if a sitting U.S. Senator decides to change [...]
May 26, 2009
· John Cole · 38 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, Politics
