I’m a bit jetlagged and can’t get to sleep, hence this late night post. I’d like to tell everyone about something new I had at dinner (or more accurately at a restaurant bar waiting for a dinner companion to arrive): bacon-flavored popcorn. I had it at a restaurant near Hyde Park called Texture. It’s …
Mainstreaming birtherism
This important piece of legislation was just introduced in the House: H.R. 1503. A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of President to include with the committee’s statement of organization a copy of the candidate’s birth certificate, …
The problem is Stewart’s messianic streak
MoDo’s gal pal Alessandra Stanley weighs in on the Cramer-Stewart showdown: Mr. Stewart has always had a messianic streak to his political satire, as when he ripped into Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala on “Crossfire” for “hurting America.” He is now focusing on business news cable networks like CNBC, which not only failed to foresee …
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Creeping Galtism, Part II
How would you describe people who applaud the Times for choosing a new Op-Ed columnist who has written things like this? (via) At least for now, before the casualties mount and the failures begin and the inevitable partisanship rears its head, we seem to be showing the necessary steel for the task ahead. And at …
London blogging (to the faraway towns)
Thought I’d give you a Sully-style view from my window.
Zombie lies never die
No one could have predicted that former Bushies would use a discredited Charles Krauthammer piece to bolster their anti-stem cell arguments: A few days before Obama announced he was abolishing Bush-era limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, Bush supporters who frequently appear on TV received an e-mail from an adviser saying: “I …
What is it about religion and sexual abuse?
From today’s Times: Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children. [….] “We believe this bill is designed to bankrupt the Catholic Church,” said …
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