Archive for March, 2009

Sometimes I think a better name for “the internet” »

…would be “everything makes me angry.”
Only misspelled. And with six exclamation points.

“He’s in the tank” »

Lily Tomlin. I love her.

Translating the Fox News translation of the U.N. climate change plan »

The intrepid executive editor of Fox News read an entire United Nations report, so you don’t have to, and I read the intrepid executive editor of Fox News’s report on the United Nations report, also so you don’t have to.
You’re welcome…
A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental [...]

No? »

I thought this was obvious. Apparently it’s just me.

This is for everyone who’s ever had to sit through the screeners »

Y’all, I’m tired to the bone so I’m just going to be lazy and put up this here video from Funny or Die.
Related: once upon a time I helped start a film festival. Tomorrow evening I’m introducing a movie at another film festival, on behalf of my film festival. That should be fun and also [...]

Run this lady for vice president, already! »

Armchair financial regulation is our new favorite sport »

Somewhere in a dark corner of Massachusetts, probably in or very near a Dunkin’ Donuts, Michael Capuano is biding his time. “Just a few years, my precious,” he whispers to his chocolate glazed. “You’ll see. I’ll live to do an encore of To Me I Think They’re Illegal, for the hedge funds.” Meanwhile, in the [...]

I mean, why not? »

Makes me want to dig out my old Heavens to Betsy tape and throw it at Pinch’s head »

Dear newspaper of record,
1. How about next time there is a two-page researched story about the First Lady and her impact on the nation, it goes in the politics section, not the fashion and style section? Also how about it is something she said or did, not something that is affixed to her body?
2. How [...]

Smoot > Hawley, for reasons that should be obvious. »

Every Christmas Porter McCumber’s relatives were subjected to a detailed account of the Fordney–McCumber Tariff bill’s origins, an account that seemed to grow longer and longer with each passing year, despite tactful attempts to steer the conversation in other directions.
I discuss the impact of tariffs, at YPR.