Month: December 2010

A Hummer in Times Square?

I’m pretty sure we’d go all Marie Antoinette on any politicians so stupid as to try this crap in America. Why are many European carmakers now planning to build electric vehicles? Because many European cities are...

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Our Problems Are Not Meta

For some reason I read the following E.J. Dionne column with the mistaken belief that it had been authored by George Will. It seemed like Will was making an inordinate amount of sense. Eventually I realized that it violated a...

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Wanker of the Day: Tucker Carlson

When I found out that Tucker Carlson was impersonating Keith Olbermann in emails to Stu Bykovsky, I thought the proper punishment should probably be death. I mean, I am fervently into second chances and I think forgiveness is...

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Is It Election Season Again Already?

It’s kind of funny that no one knows anyone in New Hampshire. After several cycles in a row of laundering, the new players in the Granite State are all fresh faces with no power-brokering experience. So, who is a Tim...

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Israel: the next war

Experts widely concede that Israel cannot maintain its occupation and colonialism of the Palestinian territories (and siege of Gaza) except that it remains on a war footing.Alain Gresh, writing in Le Monde diplomatique, went...

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