31 March 2009

Deleted Post

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Took too much space
14 March 2009

I wouldn't bet on the dollar . . .

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. . . at least not in the long run.  I bid you welcome, my Chinese masters . . . (apologies for the free registration filter, but reading t...

Never been a better trainwreck . . .

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. . . back behind the woodshed .   Gotta love how Stewart just eviscerates this guy . . . even if Stewart doesn't seem to understand the...
03 March 2009

The state of our media

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Not sure whether to laugh or cry . . . 
01 March 2009

Being treated like grown-ups

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Obama explicitly rejected some of the more egregious budgeting practices of his immediate predecessor. President Bush never included the cos...
21 February 2009

Report from the bunker

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Some disclosure: my real-world avatar is a boring banking lawyer deeply embedded in the belly of the beast.  I can therefore confidently exp...

Stick to baseball, George

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So, the global restructuring and geo-strategic recalibration is well under way.   America's, and Europe's, historic economic predomi...
07 February 2009

Let me get this straight . . .

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COST OF IRAQ WAR :   $3 TRILLION (all in) *** RETURN ON INVESTMENT:   resurgent Al Qaeda   undermined multilateral nuclear anti-proliferatio...

Our Greatest Jurist

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Why is our ever-somnolent media waking up to pay attention to what a boor this guy is all of a sudden now ?
02 February 2009

Hoover Lives!

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Change most definitely has not come to the Beltway Grandees, least of all Wolfie  . . .  Can we please, please, please have a press corps ...

Bring out your Dead!

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Remember early on during the Bush years all those Republicans who suddenly threw down the mantle of "fiscal responsibility " and d...
01 February 2009

Conspiracy Alert

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Did you ever notice that the Homeland Security Dept's terror alert color-coding system . . . . . . corresponds PRECISELY with the c...
31 January 2009

Krugman

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Yep . . . it's a priority: Let’s talk about the magnitude of the looming health care disaster. Just about all economic forecasts, incl...
30 January 2009

Just my opinion

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Promise me we won't go to a nightclub  I really think that it's obscene   What kind of people go to meet people   In a place you can...
19 January 2009

Yes, the Damage can be undone . . .

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. . . but, my oh my, how hard it's looking: During his eight years in office – fat ones, for the most part, from a fiscal point of view...
18 January 2009

And, as twilight fades to black for the glory that has been the Cheney/Bush years . . .

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. . . we need to send a big Shout! out to the man who made it all possible . . . To honor this great jurist and his incredible contribution ...

Uh . . . duh . . .

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From Josh Marshall:  "No U.S. president can justify a policy that fails to achieve its intended results by pointing to the purity and r...
20 June 2007

Digby Roolz

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. . . drumroll please: here she is. Here's the text of the speech .
01 April 2007

Judy's Lament

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Imagine, poor Judy could have avoided " these very difficult times " if she and her like-minded counterparts throughout the main s...
31 March 2007

Nothing we didn't already know

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Not surprised , just sad.