Was it Oscar Wilde who wrote, “you’d have to have a heart of stone to not burst out laughing”? Read how two conservative concern-trolls treat us to a whimpering plaint about how mean President Obama is to them. After all they’ve done.
Playing trade shows for peanuts. No wonder they turned murderous.
Back in 2006 I noted a crookedtimber.org piece about the problems in using PowerPoint for military planning in Iraq. Here we are three and a half years later, and it’s even worse. Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times has an above-the-fold page one story about it. Briefly: “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. [...]
Here’s a statement I got in the e-mail bucket this morning from the estimable Michael Steele on yesterday’s Senate vote on the financial reform bill. Can you find the lie?
Or not.
You also have the right to perform protest songs and put them up on the Internet. Go to work, hang out with the cute girl at the gym, and run for office without getting shot like you would be in Zimbabwe.
For the life of me I can’t figure out what rights they don’t have now that they did have two years ago, except maybe the right to have a white President. But that couldn’t be what’s driving these people, could it?
Here’s a performance of Schonberg’s harrowing “A Survivor from Warsaw.”
One would think that before unemployment insurance, we lived in a golden age where everyone worked at a satisfying job that filled all their material needs, and there was never any unemployment at all! I suppose if we did away with it, the unemployed would be free to go work at convenience stores or something. But how many Slurpees can they buy from each other, really?
Oh, that’s today! The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra plays a concert of space-themed music, including five of Holst’s “The Planets.” St. Anne’s Church, Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights. 3pm. A donation is requested, but not mandatory. Check us out if you’re in the neighborhood.
Jon Stewart rips into Fox News’ coverage of the new nuclear arms treaty.
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After a very rainy late winter, the warm weather and sun is making everything just explode out of the ground this spring. Here’s the birch tree in my yard this morning in the sun.
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