The NYTimes’ Frank Rich has a great piece today about GOP Senators looking like cultural artifacts:
“Yet the Sotomayor show was still rich in historical significance. Someday we may regard it as we do those final, frozen tableaus of Pompeii. It offered a vivid snapshot of what Washington looked like when clueless ancien-régime conservatives were feebly [...]
From Maureen Dowd’s funny NYTimes piece about the GOP’s D.C. love nest:
“Judge Sotomayor kept her feelings in check, while her white male Republican interrogators dissolved into whining about wanting to keep their guns and nunchakus and wishing they could get back some sway over what women do with their bodies.
“If they are so interested [...]
Follow comics-page journalistic airhead/Geralso-in-training Roland Hedley’s adventures here. Very funny, clever.
Given Cronkite’s passing, the upcoming 40th anniversary of the moon landing, AND the fact that the ultra-exclusive Bohemian Grove is now underway in Monte Rio, Ca., the confluence here is startling:
The scene is in the Grove, five years ago this week.
A young sound technician working on the big Cremation of Care stage show approaches the [...]
Strongly recommended — this beautifully written New York Times Magazine piece by bioethics prof Peter Singer. One key phrase should be singled out:
“Health care is a scarce resource, and all scarce resources are rationed in one way or another.”
It’s already rationed here — by income.
Why, whaddaya know? There are several of them grilling Sonia Sotomayor this week, including Jeff “Ferret Face” Sessions, Tom “Banjo Pickin’/Gun Totin’” Coburn, Lindsey “The Carolina Cracker” Graham, and Chuck “The Camera Whore” Grassley.
If, as the saying goes, bullshit were electricity, you could safely store dynamite in that Senate hearing room.
Why, it’s supply-side windbag Larry Kudlow. Do read my latest piece at Huffington Post.
That’s what it’s called in the TV business, and camera time is a precious resource.
And it’s coveted, especially by those who think they deserve it — most notably, U.S. Senators, most of whom look like boneheads on camera — especially when they open their mouths. Today’s opening of Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings provided a textbook [...]
Good reading: Frank Rich’s weekly NYT column on Palin’s enduring appeal. Rich says she appeals to more than the base — her fans ARE what’s left of the floundering GOP.
“Palin won’t go gently into the good night, much as some Republicans in Washington might wish. She is not just the party’s biggest star and most [...]