January 2010
44 posts
2 tags
2 tags
March of the Peacocks →
“So we’re paralyzed in the face of mass unemployment and out-of-control health care costs. Don’t blame Mr. Obama. There’s only so much one man can do, even if he sits in the White House. Blame our political culture instead, a culture that rewards hypocrisy and irresponsibility rather than serious efforts to solve America’s problems. And blame the filibuster, under which 41 senators can make...
2 tags
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on...
– J. D. Salinger
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
Bringing Sexy Back →
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
Detainees Will Still Be Held, but Not Tried,... →
“The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release…”
If that sentence sounds rational to you, then we’re deeper in the realm of Orwellian double-speak than I...
3 tags
Coakley's Loss: Pie in the President's Face →
”[…] He is still masterful, but this is performance, not substance. People grasp the difference between the two. This gulf will imprison Obama as a stereotype for weakness, a joke on late-night TV, if he doesn’t change. […]”
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
4 tags
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
5 tags
4 tags
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags