And Yet, It Could Be Worse

There’s been a lot of criticism of President Obama over the past few weeks, and this is in general a good thing. In an adult world of politics, even political allies are deserving of valid criticism. No President Obama has not done everything perfectly, and there are things that I, and my fellow...

Ironic Understatement

At the end of a very wonkish post about various ideas floating around about how to “reform” Social Security, Ezra Klein has this line: It’s unclear why the richest nation in the world would have to cut its peculiarly spare pension program further. It’s even less clear why we’d...

Pardon me for asking…

But what the hell is the point of the Obama Administration placing a “stress test” on banks?  Seriously now… Top advisers to President Obama, including the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, have insisted repeatedly that they want to keep the major banks in “private hands” and...

The media’s inept coverage of all issues related to race.

The thing about the dead monkey cartoon that really stuck with me — is the fact that I was not surprised. I kind of expected it. I certainly expected the reaction from the right wing, who automatically began denying it had anything at all to do with race, was just another example of Rev. Al Sharpton...

Classless, Callous, and Stupid

Okay, Sen. Jim Bunning, Republican from Kentucky, takes the gold medal for Most Classless Remark of the week, month, and probably year. At a Republican dinner event over the weekend, he told the assembled guests that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be dead within the year: During a...