That crash of a Yemeni passenger jet — which had been banned from l’aerospace francaise because of safety concerns — reminds me of one of the basic tenants of flying:
Never fly on any aircraft with a scimitar painted on it.
My latest Huffington Post blog is about the imminent (seriously) 24-hour, all-Michael Jackson-news cable network!
Ga. Rep. Paul “Off” Broun may be a weasel, but first and foremost, a moron. This from Paul Krugman’s latest NYTimes column on last week’s climate-control debate:
“If there was a defining moment in Friday’s debate, it was the declaration by Representative Paul Broun of Georgia that climate change is nothing but a “hoax” that has [...]
Maureen Dowd’s funny piece on Gov. Mark Sanford’s laughable Argentinian love adventure includes this line:
“He was fantasizing about catapulting himself into an exotic life where stimulus had nothing to do with budgets.”
She calls Sanford: “ Marco, international man of mystery and suave god of sex and tango.”
One caller to Thom Hartmann’s radio show this week [...]
MSNBC’s “Big Ed” Schultz went after Iowa quote machine Sen. Chuck “Smoking Too Much” Grassley yesterday for the microphone-seeking Senator’s pronunciamento that he’ll oppose a public health-care option.
The microphone slut was, as usual, looking for free publicity, but not THIS kind. Grassley is one of the biggest horse’s asses in the Senate, and is always [...]
My latest blog at Huffington Post notes that radio/MSNBC personality Ed Schultz is doing his most important work yet — putting weak-kneed Democrat Senators’ feet to the fire on health care.
This Huffington Post piece gives more details about our sensible neighbour’s “dangerous” socialism…cheap car insurance! U.N. peacekeepers on currency, etc., etc. Good reading, eh?
No, actually it’s YOU, Sen Lindsey “Cracker” Graham of South Carolina, who needs to go away. Hole up in some Waffle House for the next three months with your toothless constituents, would ya?
And take Sen. Ken Conrad’s weasly and stupid co-op idea with you, Cracker Boy.
…Estimable S.F. Chron columnist Jon Carroll’s insightful take:
“Let us concede that the insurance companies control the health care debate. They are the ones that profit from the current system; they are the ones with the money to hold the fundraisers for the legislators who will vote on the final bill. And – because the insurance [...]
This week’s column in the San Jose Merc profiles one of the best popular writers in the country, talented former TV Guide critic Bob MacKenzie.