Tuesday: Video day and British Parliament has a barbeque!

Two priceless videos that are somewhat related to each other.  What would the world be like if Rupert Murdoch had never been born?  What would the world be like if media moguls and political parties didn’t make it ok for us to express our hidden biases? First up, Hugh and Laurie show what the world [...]

Monday: The Thot Plickens

Lot’s of juicy tidbits going on in the News International scandal (did I hear Milliegate?). In no particular order: Scotland Yard’s second in command, John Yates has resigned. Sean Hoare, the former News of the World reporter who spilled the beans on the hacking has been found dead.  The death is not ruled suspicious, yet, [...]

Holy Hemiola! Rupert Murdoch practically owned the British media

This is insane. The latest person to resign under fire in connection with the News of the World phone hacking scandal  was the head of the Metropolitan Police.  That would have been like Rudy Giuliani’s chief of police, Bernard Kerik, who was snogging some tart in the free digs near the World Trade Center.  Sir [...]

I’ll see your demon barber

And raise you with the worst meat pies in London (well, the cook should know): BTW, Paul, I saw that production of Sweeney Todd on Broadway from a few years ago. The young female lead who played his daughter, I forget what her name is now, but I *do* remember that she played the cello [...]

Saturday: Too much news

July is supposed to be a slow news month. Everyone is on vacation and nothing much is going on. But for some reason, the powers that be, who may also be the idiots in charge, have decided to misbehave and act up and basically do things that piss us off. Too much of this stuff [...]

I don’t know how to title this post because words fail me

So, I was over at the Guardian site and found a link to this piece by the AP, Liberal Group Threatens to Pull Obama Support.  And I thought, “Great!  Obama’s boneheaded deficit hawk plans are the eucatastrophe we’ve been waiting for, along with Rupert Murdoch’s empire falling like Ozymandius.  *Two* eucatastrophes in one week!  Does [...]

Wanted: 536 candidates committed to the 12 word platform

The 12 Word Platform: Medicare For All. End the Wars. Soak the Rich. Jobs for Everyone (slaps face) It’s not quite JOBS for EVERYONE but, there are 536 job openings …. and there are openings in every state — in fact there is one opening in every single United States Congressional District ….. For candidates [...]

When you’re truly thankful for the smallest favors

Is Paul Krugman upset that the Republican leadership turned down Obama’s offer of Social Security and Medicare?  It certainly sounds like that: Getting to Crazy Put it this way: If a Republican president had managed to extract the kind of concessions on Medicare and Social Security that Mr. Obama is offering, it would have been [...]

How 2008 got us to this point

I’m reposting my comment response to Falstaff in regard to what happened in 2008 that brought us to this point and how the Democratic activists screwed up by letting the ends justify the means (I’m leaving the typos and style mistakes in because I’m too tired to edit it): I was absolutely sure that the [...]

Thursday: Krugman’s brevity on Obama’s Republicanism

Paul Krugman summarizes the debt ceiling debacle in his Conscience of a Liberal blog post this morning titled, “Obama, Moderate Republican”. He references a piece by Nate Silver that looks at a poll on how each party’s voters want the budget package to be structured. Paul comes to this conclusion: What Obama has offered — [...]