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• calling arundhati roy

  I’m thinking about making this a continuing series. The Indian Communists have killed over 200 innocent civilians after they sabatoged a rail line in eastern India, causing a derailment Friday. Neo-Marxist Arundhati Roy seems to think that war against these Communist insurgents, who have bullied, tortured, and killed the very rural villagers they claim to [...]

  29 May 2010 Politics, War & Peace; one comment. permalink   

• how’s that “ignoring the root causes” thing working out for you?

  Via a friend on Facebook: Well, it would work out pretty well if the government weren’t easing the money supply and encouraging fiscally unsound lending to cause (1), Sen. Dodd wasn’t destroying the capital that startups need to experiment with alternatives to (2), and if the existing government regulations actually prevented (3). Yeah, looks like [...]

  11 May 2010 Economics, Politics; one comment. permalink   

• crushing entrepreneurs’ capital

  Or, “toldyousotoldyousotoldyouso.” For years, James Taranto quoted novelist and journalist Mark Helprin in a running gag called “Homeless Rediscovery Watch”. In that quote, the latter (correctly) predicted the media would suddenly, magically, rediscover social problems that mysteriously disappeared from 1993 to 2001. Similarly, I’d like to introduce a new segment on this blog which will [...]

  10 May 2010 Economics, Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• the dangers of burying facts

  Readers of the New York Times may have noticed an article about the alarming resurgence of polio in several areas of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; several immediately took to Facebook to complain that the US hasn’t been doing enough in the area of medical aid to less-developed nations. As ever, facts are rarely important [...]

  21 Apr 2009 Politics, Science!; no comments. permalink   

• mmm. . . irony

  Do you like irony? Think the AP are being douche-barrels deserving to fall into oblivion with the rest of the modern newspaper industry? Then you’ll love the Obama poster kerfuffle! The Associated Press are trying to sue LA artist Shepard Fairey for his use of an AP photo to create his vaguely cultish (and socialist [...]

  17 Apr 2009 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• thomas frank and selective naivete

  Thomas Frank writes another treatise from the the “if you don’t agree with me, you’re mentally unstable” school of thought that’s so popular on the left in today’s Wall Street Journal, about the sins of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R):

  08 Apr 2009 Politics; no comments. permalink   

• communists to cuba; anarchists* to somalia (a rant)

  The anarchists are back at it, with another protest at another G20 meeting. I continue to wonder: do they have any idea what anarchy is? Are they aware how unlikely the economic conditions that fattened their trust funds would have been under an anarchic system? And why are they still surprised when they’re pulverized by [...]

  01 Apr 2009 Politics; no comments. permalink   

• meshugene men

  Promo for the Purim show at 92Y Tribeca*, via Design Observer: *-I’ve never understood why they keep the 92Y branding. Tribeca is nowhere near 92nd. The geographic center in my brain hurts.

  23 Mar 2009 & Cetera, Pop Culture & Memes, Telegram Metro (NYC); no comments. permalink   

• not getting any tamer

  One might wonder whether NY conservablogger Karol Sheinin is losing her snarky edge, what with her impending wedding and all. I submit this is not the case: NY Mag: The true legacy of Governor Eliot Spitzer is Governor David Paterson. Karol: Actually, no, it’s getting caught with hookers.

  03 Mar 2009 Politics, Telegram Metro (NYC); one comment. permalink   

• misunderestimating obama

  From tonight’s address to Congress: But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. Millions of jobs depend on it. Scores of communities depend on it. And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it. The first internal combustion engine was [...]

  25 Feb 2009 Economics, History, Politics; no comments. permalink