Kevin Siers strengthens my belief that a cliché is only a cliché if you simply trot it out so you can knock off early.The Rob Portman issue is, by contrast, an excellent time to quote Louis Renault, the corrupt cop from “Casablanca,” though I wish that particular expression were not so overused, because this is […]
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CSotD: A Tale Full of Fire and Fury
The book drops today, and if you love me you’ll order it here but that’s not what I wanted to say about it.Jack Ohman comes close to what I wanted to say about it, because it’s a portrait of chaos and paranoia that would be funny if it weren’t actually happening in our actual government.I’ve […]
CSotD: No time for logic
(Kevin Kallaugher) (Adam Zyglis)A critical juxtaposition today, with two good cartoonists getting it right from slightly different perspectives. I give Zyglis an edge in term of persuasion, but that comes with a lot of footnotes.Kal is correct in that the net effect of the Republican reforms is to drain resources from the poor (and middleclass) in […]
CSotD: You don’t say!
Reply All starts us off with a reflection on personal responsibility, specifically in the area of crying “Bullshit!” when appropriate.At one end of the scale, we’ve got the faux-clever people who think everything is bullshit, or, at least, who think calling everything bullshit is clever, and the Internet was made for them. I’m somewhat sympathetic to […]