Jon Stewart’s take on the “War” between the Obama Administration and Fox News.
It’s priceless.
Oct 292009
I normally like a lot of the things that Timothy Egan writes, but today he managed to hit one of my pet peeves:
“In Iraq, some Sunnis have always hated some Shiites, and vice-versa, for more years than the United States has been a country, and they will continue to dismember each other and their children whether we are there or not.”
And no, I’m not talking about the poor sentence structure. I’m talking about the “Sunnis have always hated Shiites, and vice versa… and they will continue to dismember each other” bit.
Here are a list of groups that have “always hated each other”: Continue reading »
Oct 292009
The Supreme Court will soon hear a series of cases on whether or not juveniles can be sentenced to life without parole for crimes that aren’t murder.
Personally, I think it is silly to sentence a juvenile to life without parole for any crime.
Take this quote, which is actually a defense of the practice by the National District Attorneys Association: “permanent incarceration for the most violent, hardened juvenile offenders is by no means ‘cruel.’”
Let’s think for a minute about the phrase “hardened juvenile”. Continue reading »
Oct 272009
One of the Democratic contenders for Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat in Massachusetts is Stephen Pagliuci, currently co-owner of the Boston Celtics. The biggest distinguishing factor of Mr. Pagliuci’s campaign thus far is that he has refused to take any special interest money. His loyalty can’t be bought, or so he proudly trumpets.
Of course, left unsaid is that he is extremely wealthy and is dumping a sizable portion of his own personal wealth into his campaign. He is outspending all of his opponents by a goodly margin, using the money that he made while managing Mitt Romney’s old investment capital firm. In other words: I’m rich and so I don’t need anyone’s money but my own to buy my victory.
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This report is really interesting. Democratic leaders are pushing for a public option to keep health insurance companies honest, and keep their profit margins down. Except, it turns out that profits are already scrawny – the source of skyrocketing health care costs isn’t insurance profit margins.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this report is that railroads are making more than double the profits of health insurance. Railroads are heavily, heavily subsidized by the government. Why are we subsidizing an industry that is making huge profits, while being willing to massively spend taxpayer dollars to cut the already skimpy profits of another industry?
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