Archive for the ‘Fables Of The Reconstruction’ Category
At Least Have The Grace To Oil Up…Again
So last time we talked supply and demand and oil/gasoline prices in the US, there was quite a bit of disagreement about whether or not US demand for gasoline makes any difference in gas prices at the pump at all. There was agreement that gasoline price increases are pretty elastic (they respond to oil supply [...]
February 20, 2012
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Zandar · 
103 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, An Unexamined Scandal, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, The Money Party
European Austerity Is Working? O R’yleh?
The Elder Keynesian Krugthulu arises from the depths of Lost Decade, shrill but dreaming, not to bring madness, but to end it! Ia! Ia ftaghn stimulus! Last week the European Commission confirmed what everyone suspected: the economies it surveys are shrinking, not growing. It’s not an official recession yet, but the only real question is [...]
February 20, 2012
· Zandar · 66 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Free Markets Solve Everything, Good News For Conservatives, hoocoodanode
Marry, Marry, Why Ya Buggin’?
The NY Times has a very interesting article this morning on the socioeconomics of women and child-bearing. It states that evidence (that goes along with women having children later in life now) points to women under the age of 30 who do have children are now more likely to have them outside of marriage rather [...]
February 18, 2012
· Zandar · 44 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, Republican Stupidity, Vagina Outrage
Next You’ll Tell Me The Sun Is Hot And Made Of Fusion
The National Journal’s latest poll on the federal safety net finds the shocking news that the more money you make, the less you believe America needs as much federal spending on the poor, but not all of the responses were of the Allow Them To Consume Sweet Baked Comestibles variety, either. The survey found a [...]
February 15, 2012
· Zandar · 67 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, Our Awesome Meritocracy, We Are All Mayans Now
Number Crunchers And Green Eyeshades
The President unveiled his 2013 budget plan today, and the details and priorities are very interesting, to say the least. President Barack Obama would almost double spending on the U.S. infrastructure over the next six years and would pour $350 billion into a jobs plan while shrinking the budgets of most other domestic agencies. The [...]
February 13, 2012
· Zandar · 75 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, Grifters Gonna Grift, Nobody could have predicted, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality, Vagina Outrage
High In The Middle And Round At Both Ends
So if you want to know what LEROOOOOOY NNNNNEWTON! was doing while he was drowning in flop sweat and Santorum last night, he was too busy playing for Ohio by attacking the President (and Mitt Romney) here in heavily Catholic Cincinnati yesterday. Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich today brought his talk of family, jobs and [...]
February 8, 2012
· Zandar · 91 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Burkean bells, Election 2012, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Flash Mob of Hate, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Greek Fire: Burninating The Countryside
As the EU drops the hammer on Greece this weekend saying that the country has to go along with brutal austerity measures including minimum wage and pension cuts or else no bailout and and a default, Irish economist David McWilliams offers this clever 10-minute explanation of the European debt crisis. Please note that the EU’s [...]
February 5, 2012
· Zandar · 34 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, The Money Party, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Clearly We Need Laws To Protect Us From Republican Voter Fraud
Next time somebody says DEMOCRAT VOTER FRUAD ACORN BLAH BLOOGITY BLAH please calmly direct them to Indiana’s GOP Secretary of State Charlie White being convicted on six of seven voting fraud felony counts while being the state’s top election official. Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was convicted of six felonies early this morning, and [...]
February 4, 2012
· Zandar · 36 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Both Sides Do It!, Fables Of The Reconstruction, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality
The Evil That Men Do
Charles Murray is pimping a new book, alas. TBogg and Roy have already taken a couple of whacks at the most risible bits of his latest attempt to promote the natural order of things. It’s hard to see this one making much of a splash, outside the usual quarters. In it, Murray looks specifically at [...]
January 28, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 96 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Fables Of The Reconstruction, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
A Texas-Sized Surrender
Now this is very good news if it plays out the way The Hill seems to think it will: Texas Republicans are basically looking to settle their redistricting case with the DoJ, which would have to include approval by the minority representation groups that are the plaintiffs, that would give the state a number of [...]
January 28, 2012
· Zandar · 98 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Fables Of The Reconstruction, IOKIYAR, Nobody could have predicted, Republican Venality, Stuff About Black People Written By a Black Person, The Brown Enemy Within, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
In The Business Of Giving You The Business
Kind of a depressing WaPo piece here about America’s House of Not So Commons and politics increasingly being a rich person’s game: Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled, according to the analysis of financial disclosures, from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars, excluding home equity. [...]
December 27, 2011
· Zandar · 115 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Our Failed Political Establishment, We Are All Mayans Now
Another Worst Kasich Scenario
Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich is bound and determined to drive his approval numbers down into the dirt, it seems. This week, he’s given Ohio women a lovely holiday gift: banning Ohio’s state insurance exchange from offering any plans that cover abortion. House Bill 79, which would prohibit insurance plans participating in a yet-to-be created [...]
December 22, 2011
· Zandar · 33 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, hoocoodanode, Teabagger Stupidity, Vagina Outrage, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
When honesty informs history…
The Atlantic Magazine has come out with a special issue to commemorate the 150 Anniversary of the Civil War. TNC has been working on a piece for that issue and it is up online. It is excellent, honest and challenging. Here is a taste: The Civil War marks the first great defense of democracy and [...]
December 7, 2011
· Dennis G. · 225 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Open Thread
Pardon The Interruption
Dafna Linzer’s year-long ProPublica investigation into the factors surrounding supposedly color-blind presidential pardons from 1998 to 2008 is certainly one of the more important articles of the year. The bottom line is that white pardon seekers were four times more likely to be granted a pardon than blacks. ProPublica’s review examined what happened after President [...]
December 7, 2011
· Zandar · 69 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, hoocoodanode, Our Failed Political Establishment
Following in the footsteps of George Wallace
George Corley Wallace is remembered as a symbol of American racism. Folks remember the image of him standing in the school house door to block integration and his words “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”. Folks remember his two runs for the White House on a “Law and Order” platform that seemed to be entirely [...]
December 3, 2011
· Dennis G. · 88 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Clown Shoes, Election 2012, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Post-racial America
