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Author Archives: reflectionephemeral
Like A Matador With His Pork Sword While We All Die Of Laughter
North Korea is ready to wipe us off the map, with 1910s-era tactics, 1930s-era weaponry, and circa 1800 acting capabilities:
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Why Republicans Can’t Reform
Happily this didn’t happen a week ago today, or it’d be an even harder sell. Two Republican operatives write a concise and insightful op-ed on the party’s problems in Politico: While Buckley conservatives and Reagan Republicans attracted smaller real-time audiences, … Continue reading
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Freedom, Democracy, And Political Massacres
In this 1999 article, the BBC quoted Margaret Thatcher “thank[ing] her old friend [Augusto Pinochet] for being an ally during the 1982 Falklands War – and for ‘bringing democracy to Chile’”. Around the same time, The Economist reviewed the historical record, … Continue reading
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From The Political Campaign
Yesterday, DougJ wrote, in a post called “I Am Glad Michael Kelly Is Dead”: Of course, when some establishment asshole dies, the serious people tell us that we’re monsters if we say we’re glad they’re dead. When some asshole they … Continue reading
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But We’ve Got The Biggest Gods Of Them All
This should certainly impress any omniscient beings who happen to be in the neighborhood. Who could care about a little thing like the Constitution in comparison? A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official … Continue reading
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All-Powerful Pipsqueak
So yesterday there was much sturm und drang from the right, from people upset that Google had a picture of labor organizer Cesar Chavez up on Cesar Chavez Day rather than a cartoon of a bunny or whatever to celebrate … Continue reading
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Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
DougJ writes a lengthy post on David Brooks, concluding: Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin sell gold and guns. David Brooks sells tote-bags and books. Mutatis mutandis, they’re exactly the same. Brings to mind an old McSweeney’s post: I have been … Continue reading
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Thinking Things Through
Paul Krugman gets back to first principles: In general, market disequilibrium is a sign of prices out of whack; and most people commenting on our mess accept the notion that one or more prices are for some reason not adjusting. … Continue reading
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I Mean No Disrespect, But Alaskans Are Morons
They sure can pick ‘em up there: “During a sit down interview with Ketchikan Public Radio this week, I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in Central California,” Rep. Don Young … Continue reading
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Everywhere Is War Against Gay Marriage
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/316936193495400449 (Sometimes Tweet embedding doesn’t work, so, to repeat, Erick Erickson wrote: “You’re not really loving your neighbor when you’re cool with him staying on the road to hell.”) Being raised post-religious, I used to wonder growing up how genuinely … Continue reading
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Every Woody Allen Stammer From Every Woody Allen Movie
Set aside some time:
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Conservative And Republican Proposals To Improve The Economy
The absence of rational conservatism– even from well-credentialed folks– flows from our polarization, and the (related) absorption of the GOP into the infotainment industry. As I noted in a brief examination of our real-life economic context a little while back, ”Of course, in real life, there … Continue reading
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Just came across this: the most influential new product may be the least flashy: a $100 million database built to chart the academic paths of public school students from kindergarten through high school. In operation just three months, the database … Continue reading
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Deviationist Tendencies On The Right
Fox isn’t afraid to ask the tough questions: During a roundtable discussion on Friday, Fox News’ Lou Dobbs agreed with a network contributor who argued that Americans need to access military-style assault weapons to protect themselves from an Iranian invasion. … Continue reading
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On The Demise Of Google Reader
So Google is phasing out Google Reader. I might be going a bit overboard, but I feel like this is marks a change in the way the Web is used, accessed, and promoted. The ideals of the Web as a … Continue reading
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Richard Nixon’s Treason
Long-rumored stuff surfacing in LBJ’s tapes: The idea that Johnson might have been the candidate, and not Hubert Humphrey, is just one of the many secrets contained on the White House tapes. They also shed light on a scandal that, … Continue reading
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Marco Rubio As The Future Of The Republican Party
Deep thinkin’ from the folks at CPAC: Marco Rubio, whose speech didn’t mention immigration and could be summed up in the line that garnered the largest applause–the GOP doesn’t need new ideas, “there is an idea, the idea is America, … Continue reading
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Why Welker Walked
The incomparable Greg Bedard discusses what the Patriots might have been thinking: If the Patriots only had one standout tight end, Welker would absolutely be the right guy to go forward with this offense. But because they have invested so … Continue reading
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