A reader writes:
According to Wikipedia, in 1979, the date of the commercial that made Glenn Beck cry, his mother drowned in a mysterious boating accident. His parents had divorced in 1977 and he then had to move to a different town to live with his father. His step-brother subsequently committed suicide. Keep those apparent facts in mind and watch the Youtube clip again.
A really helpful and beautiful interactive guide. Makes you realize just how massive a fiscal burden the empire remains.
Kristol tips his hand:
Today, the Wall Street Journal has a story on the race with the headline Tea-Party Activists Complicate Republican Comeback Strategy. The truth is the opposite: The GOP establishment complicates the Republican and conservative comeback strategy.
"[E]ach cat must burp twice. sometimes it helps if you sing to them," – cat-sitting instructions from "Kelly." Any volunteers?
"This is not a typical American family. I don’t know many of us who have been involved in TV reality shows and chasing storms, it’s a different experience than most of us face,” – Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden. They're so busted. But I love the 911 dispatcher's calm inquiries about a flying saucer.
Sometimes, you just despair of liberal rationalists.
The NYT gets something important wrong:
In a Sunday feature already posted online, the New York Times and free-lancer Carol Kino have unfortunately hetero-normalized David Hockney. According to Kino: "In 2005 Mr. Hockney — temporarily, he says — left Hollywood, where he had lived full time since 1978, to transform the manicured green and golden slopes, woods and farmland of the East Yorkshire landscape into spare, quickly worked compositions charged with pink, orange and violet."
That's not true. Hockney did not leave California because the East Yorkshire landscape romantically called him home to England. Hockney left because the United States government would not allow his partner, John Fitzherbert, back into the country. In order to be with Fitzherbert, Hockney returned to the UK.
I think that many straight people find it so impossible to understand how they could be treated this way that they simply don't see what their gay friends deal with every day. If heterosexuals were treated this way, there'd be a revolution.
A reader writes:
If a Republican president had come up with this slogan, it would immediately have been put up as the main headline on Drudge (red font & siren optional), which inevitably leads to the main topic of conversation on conservative radio. Every damn Republican representative would be working every interview around those three words and the national narrative would be created … unfortunately these are the Dems we're talking about, so the only people who will ever hear this are the ones politically interested enough to read blogs such as yours.
James Pethokoukis voices one of the most common arguments against the healthcare bill:
The CBO projects $81 billion in savings over the first decade and then “the added revenues and cost savings are projected to grow more rapidly than the cost of the coverage expansion.” Great news. But those savings will materialize only if Congress actually cuts a projected $400 billion in government healthcare spending — including Medicare reimbursements to hospitals, doctors and other providers – over 10 years. Skepticism here is warranted. Previous congressional promises to cut reimbursements haven’t panned out.
Others argue that the CBO tends to underestimate savings from Medicare cuts. But at some point, what cannot continue won't.
Who ya gonna believe – the coroner or the Daily Mail?
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