Blogs you might have missed Here are some blogs that are new, new to me, or that don’t get read as much as they should (in no particular order): Nitpicker (not sure how I missed that one until now). Skeptical Notion Modulator A Taxing Blog The Talent Show Eschaton Check ’em out. AB UPDATE: Dwight […]

Comments Policy I’ve noticed other bloggers catching a little flack when they delete comments without having an formal comment policy. To avoid that, here’s my announcement: Spam in the comments, even if it’s promoting a lefty site, will be deleted. For example “Cool site. Great post. For more check out my blog at XYZ.blogspot.com.” Linking […]

Sometimes Up is Up First, Dick Cheney spends much of last Sunday lying. Finally the press wakes up and decides to write a few articles that point out the lies (e.g., this). And there actually was a bit of a backlash. Then Don Rumsfeld actually tells the truth: “I’ve not seen any indication that would […]

Grasso Via Reuters: New York — New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso resigned his position during an emergency board meeting last night as the growing condemnation over his $140-million (U.S.) compensation package threatened to damage the exchange itself. There’s a lot of outrage directed at Grasso and his giant compensation package. For example, CalPundit […]

Lucky Duckies Again In the current New Republic, Jacob Levy offers a modest defense of the WSJ editors for suggesting that we raise taxes on the poor (the “Lucky Duckies”) in order to generate a consensus on cutting taxes. His argument is basically an appeal to we’re-all-in-this-together-ism: …it is the standard classical liberal argument for […]

What are they thinking? Seriously, go read this post by Nitpicker. Make sure to read to the end. AB P.S. Nitpicker didn’t quote this amusing part from the original Washington Post story Our personal favorite is a shot of the president looking out from the official limo in Beijing. The ID placard, done at the […]

What’s the Difference… …between Texas Republicans and monkeys? Click here to find out. AB

Syria-ously The previous post does not mean that Syria is not a problematic nation–it is. But it always has been, and primarily for Israel, not the U.S. directly. And I believe Syria and the entire world know who wins if war breaks out between Israel and Syria, which tends to keep Syria somewhat in check. […]

Quick! Look Over There! Evildoers and Evildoings in Syria!(*) AB (*) $87 billion? Quagmire? Unemployment? Deficit? Forget about those issues, we’ve go evildoers in Syria.

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