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Monthly Archives: November 2007

The limits on our discourse

Friday, November 23, 2007

What with Thanksgiving and all, including a visit from my kids, I won’t be writing much over the weekend, but that doesn’t mean I won’t inflict my ravings on my helpless readers at all. Today, an object lesson in the sort of unconscious limits that we place on the acceptable realm of debate in this […]

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Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 22, 2007

This year’s apple pie.

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Bad news for New York lawyers

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Via Susie, we learn that times are tough for associates at New York law firms: New York law firms are cutting associates for the first time since 2001 as the collapse of the subprime mortgage and credit markets causes private equity deal volume and structured finance work to slow. Clifford Chance, the world’s highest-grossing law […]

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Yet another Bushie exempts himself from the criminality

Monday, November 19, 2007

Supposedly, this is an excerpt from Scott McClellan’s new book: The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front […]

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Bill Maher on health care, etc.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Gliding toward the holiday, feeling a bit lazy. Bill Maher’s latest rules. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG6VFdwdM0[/youtube] Yet more proof that only comedians can tell the truth about the state of this country.

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Reagan, Republicans and race

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Over the course of the last few weeks Paul Krugman and David Brooks, both columnists for the New York Times, have been trading blows about Ronald Reagan. The general charge is that Reagan made coded appeals to white racism as part of his campaign strategy, consistent with the overall Republican electoral stategy since 1968. The […]

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Joe Courtney speaks out on contempt charges

Saturday, November 17, 2007

The Hill reports on the attitude of House freshmen on the Miers/Bolton contempt issue: Despite their skittishness on other signature Democratic issues, most of the Democrats’ “Frontline” members wholeheartedly back sanctions against the White House for rebuffing the House Judiciary Committee in its investigation of the U.S. attorney scandal. “At some point, the process has […]

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Buddy Holly

Friday, November 16, 2007

Reaching way back. With Thanksgiving approaching I thought to put Arlo up, but the only versions on Youtube can’t be embedded. So here’s Buddy [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pribHw93OPc&feature=related[/youtube]

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Krugman spreads the word

Friday, November 16, 2007

I am second to no one in my admiration for Paul Krugman, the almost lone voice of reason among the elite punditry. But as someone who, each day, tries to think of something fairly original to say to differentiate myself from the thousands of other blogging types, I must say that Krugman has it easy. […]

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Kerry issues a challenge

Friday, November 16, 2007

Good for John Kerry: Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted a Texas oilman’s offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. … Kerry said he would […]

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