(not the version you just listened to)
Apr 26, 2013
Apr 25, 2013
Jon Stewart vs DumFux News
It'd be nothing short of amazing if DumFux News could be anywhere near as consistent with their opinions as Stewart is with kicking their ass.
Today's Charlie Pierce
Charlie Pierce often posts James Madison quotes:
The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entagled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it. Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects? that the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?
-- James Madison, Memorial And Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, 1785.
Today In Good Government
Here's a picture of a meeting of a Joint Committee to talk about Long Term Unemployment in a struggling US economy (a grand total of 4 members managed to show up):
And here's a picture of the seating section reserved for all the fucks these dipwads give about anybody who happens not to be in a position to make large campaign contributions - like maybe, I dunno, somebody who doesn't have a fucking job:
The Krugman Speaks
Copied the whole thing from Paul Krugman's blog:
Evidence and Economic Policy
Henry Blodget says that the economic debate is over; the austerians have lost and whatshisname has won. And it’s definitely true that in sheer intellectual terms, this is looking like an epic rout. The main economic studies that supposedly justified the austerian position have imploded; inflation has stayed low; the bond vigilantes have failed to make an appearance; the actual economic effects of austerity have tracked almost exactly what Keynesians predicted.
But will any of this make a difference? The story of the past three years, after all, is not that Alesina and Ardagna used a bad measure of fiscal policy, or that Reinhart and Rogoff mishandled their data. It is that important people’s will to believe trumped the already ample evidence that austerity would be a terrible mistake; A-A and R-R were just riders on the wave.
The cynic in me therefore says that after a brief period of regrouping, the VSPs will be right back at it — they’ll find new studies to put on pedestals, new economists to tell them what they want to hear, and those who got it right will continue to be considered unsound and unserious.
But maybe I’m wrong; maybe truth will prevail. Here’s hoping.
Apr 24, 2013
Who Had A Bad Day?
One of the big-time Coin-Operated Politicians says bye-bye.
The Center is the name we give to the place where power resides.
The Center is the name we give to the place where power resides.
Apr 23, 2013
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