Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2847
June 17, 2010
Colbert Bait
Kung-fu bear, deadlier than ever:
Louis Prima - La Luna - Dogs - Hosting - Web Design and Development
O'Reilly Pwns Palin, Ctd
A reader writes
I thoroughly enjoyed watching O'Reilly pull the plug on a silly talking point, but I was disappointed that he didn't have the courage to follow through. He said, "the reason why I'm pleased to have you on the program tonight is that there is not a governor in the United States who has more experience than you do dealing with the oil companies." Just a little brown-nosing, why bother with a blatant lie? One need only look to Rick Perry, who has been Governor of Texas for 10...
A Painfully Slow Recovery
2012 unemployment forecasts are not so good:
The forecast for GDP growth this year is 3.4 percent, followed by 2.4
percent in 2011 and 2.8 percent in 2012, well below the 5.0 percent
growth of previous recoveries and even a bit below the 3.0 percent
long-term normal growth. With this weak economic growth comes a weak
labor market, and unemployment slowly declines to 8.6 percent by 2012.
Weekly unemployment claims chart from Calculated Risk.
(Hat tip: Drum)
Unemployment - Labour ...
FGM At Cornell?
Language - Gus MacPherson - Lee Mair - St. Mirren F.C. - Physics
The Price Of Not Being Lindsay Lohan
The awful fate of Ralph Maccio:
Wax On, F*ck Off with Ralph Macchio from Ralph Macchio
Ralph Macchio - Karate Kid - Arts - Animation - Directors
The War On Free Speech
Islam - Hate speech - Bruce Bawer - Speech Technology - Research
Not Pro-Israel Enough
Alan Dershowitz thinks Jan Schakowski is too soft on the Palestinians. But she signed the AIPAC resolution blaming Hamas for the civilian casualties in Gaza. Money quote from the Republican Likudnik Dershowitz is backing:
If we want Israel to survive to 2012 and beyond, we have to make a
difference in 2010.
Hamas - Gaza - Israel - Palestinian people - alandershowitz
Shhhh: "There Is No Brighter Future"
John Michael Greer sees the future of the Tea Party tendency (and other populist currents) as the obvious ecological limits to unlimited economic growth begin to sink in:
It seems uncomfortably likely to me that such movements could be set in motion by the emergence of peak oil as a publicly acknowledged crisis. Tendencies in that direction are already welded firmly in place in popular culture across the industrial world. The Sarah Palin supporters who turned "Drill, baby, drill" into...
Palin's Magical Realism Again
Tuesday night on the O'Reilly Factor, former half-term governor of a state which has the population of a little more than Raleigh, North Carolina, said:
"... as governor of Alaska, what I did in dealing with the oil companies and I'll betcha 75% of my time was being taken up by energy issues here in this state. I had to set up our Petroleum Systems Integrity Office so that we could be there on the front lines making sure what the oil companies were telling us was legit when they were dealing...
Paid Chinese Actors?
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