Birther bait
Now you, too, can have your own fake Kenyan birth certificate. Woohoo! Here’s mine: Heh. Larger version here. And yes, there is a real place in Kenya called Loiyangalani. (Hat tip: Sully.)
Category Archives: News
Message vs. messenger
In the course of talking about “Cash for Clunkers,” blogger Conor Friedersdorf makes an important, broader point: Here’s the thing: “the right” is an utter disaster at the moment. You’ve got frightening numbers of people who think President Obama is an illegal alien who faked his Hawaiian birth certificate; adherents who get much of their information from a cable news… Read more »
Gibbs backtracks on “elected leader” comment
Sounds like President Obama gave somebody a tongue-lashing: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said he had misspoken in calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran’s elected leader and that Washington will let the Iranian people decide whether Iran’s election was fair. “Let me correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader… Read more »
Thought for the day II
You’ve probably already heard about this story: A recent college graduate is suing her alma mater for $72,000 — the full cost of her tuition and then some — because she cannot find a job. Trina Thompson, 27, of the Bronx, graduated from New York’s Monroe College in April with a bachelor of business administration degree in information technology. On… Read more »
Thought for the day
Many years from now, when historians look back on this decade, which day will they say “changed the world” more: 9/11/01, or 9/15/08? Perhaps the answer is 9/11 simply because it was more of a self-contained event, which, all by itself, set enormous changes into motion — whereas the collapse of Lehman Brothers was merely one catastrophic event among many… Read more »
On reading the bill
Glenn Reynolds, advancing the conservative talking point du jour, asks: “Is it representative government when your representatives don’t read the bill?” Perhaps not. But if not, then it also wasn’t “representative government” when the Republican Congress passed the 342-page-long Patriot Act, or the 415-page-long Medicare prescription drug benefit bill, or the 1,700-plus-page-long Bush/Cheney energy bill of 2005, without reading them…. Read more »
Heh.
TPM’s David Kurtz suggests a new “Cash for Clunkers” plan: “How about a program where we can turn in the old, washed-up pundits and talking heads on the cable nets for ones that spew less dangerous emissions?”
What will be August’s big story?
Becky posed an interesting question to me the other day, and I thought I’d pose it to all of you: What do you think will be the big MSM news story of August, when Congress is in recess? August is traditionally the peak of the summer news lull, a time when stories like shark attacks and Gary Condit/Chandra Levy can… Read more »
More on Gates-gate
I don’t mean to obsess over this stupid Cambridge case, which is really not all that important in the grand scheme of things. There are far worse examples of police misconduct; this one is a prominent story mainly because of a question asked at a presidential press conference, and because we’re in the midst of the annual midsummer news lull…. Read more »
Shatner does Palin
No, not like that, you sickos. Here’s Captain Kirk himself, on the Tonight Show, reading a verbatim excerpt from ex-Governor Palin’s farewell address the way it was intended to be read — as poetry: (Hat tip: B. Minich.) P.S. Shatner is short!