Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Even the Infographic is Unreadable
Executions in Japan
John Derbyshire (an Englishman) mentions two criminals executed in Japan despite the leftyish Justice Minister’s abolitionist stance, and says at the end:
Executions in Japan are by hanging: The Japanese at least understand that capital punishment is an act of state violence, not a medical procedure, as in the dishonest and despicable system of [...]
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The Latter Day IPO
Work part time as a council member in a (working-class, mostly Hispanic) town of 39,000 and make $100,000; get a job as the police chief and make $457,000; get elected mayor and make nearly $800,000.
Truly California is the land of opportunity.
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Dave Seems To Be Enjoying Himself
Looking at the photos accompanying the Times article about the Prime Minister’s trip to Washington. Wouldn’t it be funny (funny ironic? funny haha?) if Dave is to Obama what Bush was to Tone. What is it about the co-politicals rubbing each other the wrong way?
In other news: There isn’t any. It’s 10 pm and I [...]
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXLI
This Old Spice video.
(They’re doing a lot of these and perhaps it’s funnier if you watch a bunch of the responses to random YouTube commenters and Twitter and Facebook people and then come across this George Stephanopoulos one.)
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXL
Curtsy: Brett McS.
Update: Brett sent this to me THREE WEEKS AGO! How did this NOT GET PUBLISHED?! Why is it STILL IN MY DRAFTS?!?!!?
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Barbra Streissand and Niall Ferguson Walk Into a Room Together
Interesting…
The Daily Beast – The Elite Turn Against Obama
In a way, the folks attending this cerebral conclave pairing the Aspen Institute think tank with the Atlantic Monthly magazine might even be seen as President Obama’s natural base. Apparently not so much. … “We are, without question, in [...]
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So, Don’t Tell Me This AlGore Sex Poodle Thing is REAL
The two freakiest parts:
The accuser said Gore maneuvered her into the bedroom. His iPod docking station was there, he told her, and he wanted her to listen to “Dear Mr. President,” a lachrymose attack on George W. Bush by the singer Pink.
And:
Finally she got away. Later, she talked to friends, [...]
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Your Week In Review, or: The Stuff I Miss Never Watching TV Anymore
NRO – Mark Steyn: The Unengaged President
Only the other day, Sen. George Lemieux of Florida attempted to rouse the president to jump-start America’s overpaid, over-manned, and oversleeping federal bureaucracy and get it to do something on the oil debacle. There are 2,000 oil skimmers in the United States: Weeks after the spill, [...]
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From Star Wars to Staring Contests
Ladies and gentlemen, observe the new Cold War:
President Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at Ray’s Hell Burger in DC (click for photo)
Like the Muppets!
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXVIII
Besides it being a serious and ESSENTIAL question, RC2 makes me laugh:
Wheat & Weeds – Oz Left Rudderless
Rudd resigns, ninme/wheatandweeds blog corridor breathlessly awaits explanation/assessment from on the scene correspondent Brett McS.
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The Fat Man Reckons About the Reckoning
RC2 says she likes,
his point at the end about not wanting to watch his grandkids’ little league games via the internet….and look at all the different kinds of people who stood for him at the end.
What I like especially is reminding people that his kids and grand kids don’t have to stay in [...]
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The Gulf Is Dying So the President Chooses Window Treatments
OC Register – Mark Steyn: Can Obama plug leak in his support?
What was it all the smart set said about Bush? Lazy and uncurious? Had Obama or his speechwriters chanced upon last week’s fishwrap, they might have noticed that I described the president as “the very model of a modern major generalist,” and [...]
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