By scathew, on August 6th, 2009
Hey, I’m all for a, “What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!” kind of joke, but have you ever noticed that conservative jokes always have a tendency to be a little, well, violent? I received this recent jem from a friend:
A driver is stuck in a traffic [...]
By scathew, on August 6th, 2009
The convergence of a couple things got me thinking about Woody Guthrie’s famous “This Land Is Your Land” folk song that we all grow up with. In elementary school it’s practically ingrained in us as a mantra and subsequently there are probably few who don’t remember at least the refrain:
This land is your land, this [...]
By scathew, on August 5th, 2009
Living in the “Live Free or Die” state, I have a lot of friends who aren’t exactly “liberal”. In fact some of them actually make Sean Hannity look “fair and balanced”. Still, your friends are your friends and you love them regardless of their obvious pathological tendencies.
However, I swear, if another of my friends equates [...]
By scathew, on August 1st, 2009
If the AP is correct and:
The success of President Barack Obama’s ambitious agenda — from health care and climate change to education — could depend on how quickly he recovers from the sharp drop in support among white voters after criticizing a white policeman’s arrest of a black Harvard scholar.
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Obama’s impromptu comments about the incident [...]
By scathew, on August 1st, 2009
Brad DeLong goes Quintuple meta on Robert Waldmann’s quadrupal meta on the triple meta of Matthew Yglesias:
Robert Waldmann goes quadruple meta on the triple meta Matthew Yglesias:
Robert’s Stochastic thoughts: Quadruple meta: Matt Yglesias goes triple meta in his blog post “Stay First-Order on Health Care.” writing
It’s difficult, of course, to critique the impulse to “go [...]