Doesn’t look awful at first glance, although of course we’ll see what makes it into the final deal. This is the key: They also said that there would be limits on pay packages for executives whose firms seek assistance from the government and a mechanism for the government to be given an equity stake in […]
Month: September 2008
In spite of the fact that I teach for a living and have been running my own courses for about 15 years, I experience tremendous, daily pre-class anxiety, enhanced by my chronic inability to manage my
I’m baffled by this quasi-rationalization of McCain’s reprehensible campaign from erstwhile McCain-lover Jon Chait: Any attempt to determine McCain’s true motives is necessarily pure
Let me second Jason Sigger’s shredding of Glenn Greenwald’s handwringing regarding the assignment of a Brigade Combat Team to NORTHCOM, the combatant command responsible for the continental United States. Jason ably dismantles Greenwald’s terror that the Army is coming to repress us, but I’d like to concentrate on something else; Greenwald’s notion that Posse Comitatus […]
The preening debate cancellation nonsense seems to have a clear objective — burying Sarah Palin for as long as possible. I guess you can’t argue with the logic in a way, although McCain is
Sometime in the next 30 hours: (a) A bailout deal will be announced and McCain will participate in the debate. (b) McCain will announce that after personally taking part in the negotiations great prog
If they’re going to pitch around you, take the goddamned walk. I know you’re been trained to think as an “RBI man” but flailing at a pitch a foot and a half outside and striking out rather than having Beltran up with the bases loaded and none out isn’t helping the team. In addition, watching […]
I’m re-writing this post to take into account the latest information (it turns out that I was looking at reporting that was a day old). Apparently the Democratic leadership is circulating a draf
(1) Is McCain sick? I agree with Aimai that it seems unlikely, given his schedule — he took a meeting with Lynn Whatshername de Rothschild this morning and did an interview with Katie Couric thi
If I’d been severely depressed about something today, reading The Corner would have really helped clear the air. Here, for example, is K-Lo, wondering how John McCain is going to win the election if she can’t get her campaign trinkets: Try to buy, say, a sign or a button or a t-shirt from the McCain […]
My first reaction is that this sounds like a truly bizarre publicity stunt. My second reaction is that this is a sign of desperation and Obama should refuse. Update: This is absolutely nuts: McCain is
This reminds me of perhaps my very favorite Saint Greenspan moment: his solemn admonition to Congress that if we didn’t pass a massive package of upper-class tax cuts we’d…pay down t