Category Archives: Politics

Dim Bullets in a Dark Tunnel

By hugh | Published: April 28, 2009

The new quagmire: Seven questions for Barack Obama on Afghanistan. With hindsight of Mary McCarthy’s Vietnam memoirs and penned by retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. Greenwald calls Jane Harman a bunch of names although strangely, hypocrite isn’t one of them. Jeff Stein delves further into the mess. Socialist Andre Damon pretty cynical about everything. Reese [...]

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The Yawning Sarcophagus of Common Sense

By hugh | Published: April 17, 2009

The problem with the Tax Day Teabag Protests was that no alternative was offered. Some of those interviewed called Obama a fascist but could not articulate why they felt this way. The governor Texas threatening to secede is apparently signaling his constituents that it’s okay to hate America again. I understand the bipartisan frustration of [...]

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Come Back Tomorrow

By hugh | Published: April 8, 2009

The other drug store in my neighborhood is open 24 hours, bitches. What’s with all the red? Obama officials embody the corruption he promised to get rid of. Glennzilla reports. Boom time for criminal syndicates. Robot army deployment. Bill Moyers and Michael Winship call for a more serious investigation. Update: I meant to point out [...]

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The Genius of the Crowd

By hugh | Published: April 2, 2009

Matt Dillon nailed Charles Bukowski in the movie Factotum. He never smiles and got the cadence just right. Someone should cast him again in another Bukowski / Chinaski novel turned movie. Mickey Rourke missed in Barfly. There’s a man playing a lonely trumpet outside. I turn on WNYC and listen to the talk radio people [...]

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Credit Crisis Primer

By hugh | Published: April 2, 2009

Via Digby. This pleasantly reminds me of elementary school and watching movies that explained the banking system. Watch it if you’re confused about what’s going on. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis

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Winners in a Slow Economy

By hugh | Published: March 24, 2009

What can you say about the food sold at the 99¢ store? They got my 99¢, I got some food that tastes different, and the big guys with the obnoxious website did not get my $3.99. These are the same guys voraciously taking over the packaged organic food industry. From Richard’s Forewards and elsewhere: Tom [...]

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Three Hits from the Intertubes

By hugh | Published: March 17, 2009

Even though I’m mostly Irish, I usually end up hiding out on St. Patrick’s Day. I’m just not a big fan of the kelly green plastic crap, “kiss me I’m Irish” buttons, Irish sports bars, or fake Irish accents. WFMU has launched its video podcasts with this stunning debut. I hope you donated to the [...]

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Fixer Upper For Sale

By hugh | Published: March 15, 2009

The Wall Street Journal reports Obama’s poll numbers are really starting to slip. While this may be true, the MSM’s insistence that this has been true all along is false, partly because MSM coverage of the stimulus has been disingenuous. Obama’s centrist approach will keep him afloat for a little while. So the fringe is [...]

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Suit Bag Next to … Some Wood

By hugh | Published: March 11, 2009

Newsmax is reporting a prediction that the Dow Jones will be at 4,000 by summer. The public exists to serve the banks. A real punchline. Glennzilla reports on the failure of the nomination of Charles Freeman for the National Intelligence Council… with updates. Tent Cities popping up in California.

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Artsy Bicoastal

By hugh | Published: March 6, 2009

A playground from the east coast and some trees outside the stead on the west coast… It must be George Soros. I am taking a shot at rumor-mongering here. Courtesy of Richard’s Forewards.

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Too Much Sense

By hugh | Published: March 4, 2009

Some ideas are like a couple of new 2x4s outside of a house with a sagging roof. The carpenter is making stone soup with stones while….

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Richard’s Forewards 2

By hugh | Published: March 3, 2009

Nouriel Roubini recommends several drastic proposals. (registration req’d). These include: massive and more unorthodox monetary policy easing to defrost credit markets even if this may imply central banks widening collateral and taking greater credit risk; massive and front-loaded fiscal stimulus more on the spending than tax side and with income relief to agents with high [...]

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