Mr. Clinton Goes To Kazakhstan

 Civilizer
It’s been really great, having Hillary Clinton right in the thick of a close, disputatious race for President.  It puts her husband back in the papers, and that guy is always up to something wild!  By way of example, let’s follow the 2005 path of the peripatetic former POTUS as he took a quick little pleasure [...]

Ricky Gervais And Stephen Merchant Are Funnier Than You

from www.funnyordie.com posted with vodpod

The NOW Morphs Into The National Organization For Whiny Girls

 Civilizer
If I’m in the National Organization for Women, I’m embarassed right now.  As you may or may not have heard, Ted Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama’s presidential bid today, delivering a nice, Boston-accented “fahk you” to Bill and Hillary Clinton in the process.  And because Ted endorsed a boy, who of course are all just a [...]

Three Cheers For Byzantine Government Regulation!: Quote Of The Day

From the American Banker Morning Scan for Friday, January 25, 2008, commenting on the monster kick to the capital nads recently suffered by France’s Société Générale after it announced that heretofore unremarkable trader Jérôme Kerviel managed to lose, undetected, over $7 billion in bad futures trades:
“We’re guessing this won’t be the day we hear a [...]

Now Entering The Ring, Accompanied By Her Manager, Slick Willie…

 Civilizer
You may recall that on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, I suggested that the only way Hillary Clinton could revive her flagging campaign was to hire a new manager – not your typical campaign manager, mind you, but a professional wrestling manager – somebody who could be her aggressive, offensive, aggrandizing mouthpiece, grabbing [...]

Quite A Poker Face You’ve Got There, Senator

From the January 13th, 2008 edition of Meet The Press: 
MR. RUSSERT: You say you’ve been deeply involved in the eight years of the Clinton administration. One of the powers given to a president is the power of pardon. At the end of the president’s second term, he granted 140 pardons, including one to Marc Rich, [...]

Hillary Clinton: Depends On What Your Definition Of “The Truth” Is

 Civilizer
Barack Obama gave an interview to the Reno Gazette-Journal last Monday, and committed the mortal sin of talking about Ronald Reagan without using the words “decade of greed” or “antichrist” or “oppressor of the working poor.”  Here is what he said: 
“I think it’s fair to say the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty [...]

All Things In Their Place Is Saddened By The Passing Of Heath Ledger

Rest in peace, you freaking genius.

Middle Finger Of The Apocalypse: Harold Bloom

“Democracy, whether in Sweden or the United States, depends on the voter’s capacity to think. If you have read the best of what has been thought and said, then your cognition and understanding is on a much higher level than if you have read Harry Potter or Stephen King. So what this decline into half-literature [...]

Little Car, Big Problem?

 Tree-Hugger Civilizer
Slate’s Anne Applebaum takes the opportunity presented by Indian automaker Tata’s roll-out of its cheap, micromini car, the Nano, to identify what I have long considered to be one of the most vexatious issues confronting the planet – the need to weigh the positive human effects of the rise of developing economies on their [...]