With bad memories of Rumsfeld’s dismissal of the looting of the Iraqi national museum lingering, I was probably not the only person heartened by this NYTimes note on Saturday (c3:45pm): Defending the Egyptian Museum:A cross-section of Cairo residents formed a human chain on Saturday to help guard Egyptian antiquities at a national museum. __ Cairo …
C.R.E.A.M.
Buy the world, a Koch
I’m all for demonizing the Kochs as much as possible, the same way the right did with George Soros (though preferably without an analog of the overt-Antisemitism): [H]ere at home, over a thousand activists gathered outside the gates of a exclusive resort where the Koch brothers were hosting one of their periodic con-cons. These invitation …
All You Need to Know About ‘O:thePresidentialNovel’
Because this is a full-service political blog, I bring you Politico‘s review, excerpted from their Mark Salter tongue-bath: … if Time magazine’s Mark Halperin is right, Washington has been hit by the biggest Saltergram ever, in the form of an anonymous, 353-page campaign novel titled, “O: A Presidential Novel.” __ Some of “O”’s liveliest passages …
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More of This, Please (SocSec edition)
I really like the analogy Bob Herbert uses in his latest NYTimes column to rebut the catfood-commissioners “Raising False Alarms“: … When you see surveillance videos of some creep mugging an elderly person in an elevator or apartment lobby, the universal reaction is outrage. But when the fat cats and the ideologues want to hack …
Emoguls
We’ve talked about the importance of our Galtian overlords’ fee fees a lot here over the past few months. But I’d like to know: When did rich people become so touchy? Where are the stiff upper lips and WASPy reserve of yesteryear? Rortybomb (via) says it’s all in the conservative game: To bring it back …
Showtime at the Apollo
No one could have predicted (via Library Grape): In 2010, Sen. Evan Bayh retired. Part of the reason, he told me, was that the corrosive effect of money in politics had left his profession looking corrupt. “You want to be engaged in an honorable line of work,” Bayh said, “but they look at us like …
We swore we’re safe as houses
There’s an interesting piece — warning, Politico link — about how the National Association of Realtors is planning to use Citizens United to fuck up the elections in 2012. In everyone’s rush to condemn the banksters, people sometimes forget what dumbasses the National Association of Realtors were in the lead-up to the financial meltdown. A …