Category Archives: Words

This is probably the first Memorial day I have had off in my adult life, gotta say it is great. Just got back from a long bike ride, I wish every day was a holiday. I hope everyone is having … Continue reading →

Steve Benen asks when people will stop covering Sarah Palin’s hateful vile missives: Former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin (R), who seems unfulfilled unless she’s engaged in some kind of pointless feud, has decided to lash out wildly at an investigative … Continue reading →

This is a bit old, but it’s worth commenting on regardless. Nick Kristof — an otherwise admirable guy — thinks it’s appropriate to chastise poor Africans for their consumption choices in the pages of the New York Times: There’s an … Continue reading →

A lot is being made of the Rand Paul implosion: It’s basically this — all the stuff Paul is getting in trouble for now are things that would just be really tough to use against a candidate in a GOP … Continue reading →

Bike racing is starting to look a lot like Baseball, only bike racing is still cooler: The cycling community gathered in this farming town for Thursday’s start of Stage 5 of the Tour of California was left stunned by allegations … Continue reading →

I caught a little bit of Ran Paul on the Racheal Maddow show last night, and the guy seemed unable to answer a simple questions. Maddow kept asking him if he supported the Civil Rights Act and he kept trying … Continue reading →

From Andrew Sullivan: I’m a college student (should be writing my final paper right now, in fact), so there isn’t any real stigma regarding smoking marijuana, but I do it for a much different reason than most of my friends. … Continue reading →

After I read stuff like this I am amazed that people still think we can breed our way out of the financial crisis: Alison Schrager reports “The paper finds the cost of adopting a black baby needs to be $38,000 … Continue reading →

From Mathew Yglesias: Suppose we have 100 mortgages that pay $1 or $0. The probability of default is 0.05. We pool the mortgages and then prioritize them into tranches such that tranche 1 pays out $1 if no mortgage defaults … Continue reading →

Politics in Florida is always interesting: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist spent most of 2010 a pitiful figure, falling behind an upstart Tea Party opponent and struggling to remain competitive in a senate primary when only two years before he was … Continue reading →

This is pretty funny: Last night, Stephen Colbert named George Rekers, a leader in the ex-gay movement and a co-founder of the Family Research Council, his “Alpha Dog of The Week” after Rekers was caught coming back from Europe with … Continue reading →

I have tried to get my mond around this for awhile, I have always assumed that conservatives just have an irrational fear of wildlife but maybe the urge to destroy wild animals and the places they live is more ingrained … Continue reading →

The Wall Stree Journal has an article up about what might have prevented the Oil-Spill in Louisiana. The interesting part is that the safety device, that would have cost about $500,000 was not required thanks to Dick Cheney’s energy commission. … Continue reading →

This is perhaps the worst man made dissaster ever: Ten days ago, after an explosion occurred on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig off the Gulf Coast, the initial word from the Coast Guard was that there was no oil spill. That … Continue reading →

Hopefully this will make the “drill baby drill” crowd, including our president re-think offshore drilling. Coast Guard officials said Monday afternoon that the oil spill near Louisiana was now covering an area in the Gulf of Mexico of 48 miles … Continue reading →

Thomas Friedman thinks the tea baggers can be useful and Steve Benen disagrees: Thomas Friedman has a column today suggesting Tea Partiers strive to “become something more than just entertainment for Fox News.” Specifically, the columnist recommends that these activists … Continue reading →

Matt Yglesias might be missing the point on what makes a good conservative while discussing David Frum: What makes him a reasonable interlocutor with things worth saying on a variety of topics is precisely that he does care. Conservatives who … Continue reading →

I found this post when I was looking for something else, but OMG what a sad women: My daughter and I almost made it through Mother’s Day without screaming at each other. Unfortunately, as I was driving Katie back to … Continue reading →

I know I haven’t talked about this before, but I am assuming everyone has heard about the latest big republican health care idea, which is to go back to a barter economy. Paul Krugman explains why that won’t work: Everyone’s … Continue reading →

Looks like Goldman Sachs knew the mprtgage market was going down and positioned themselves to make some money out of it, I guess the issue is whether or not they misled investors as to what they believed was going to … Continue reading →

I just listened to the Tim Tebow press conference, here in Denver it is all Tebow all the time. A reporter asked him why he thought he was picked so late? His response was that he felt people held his … Continue reading →

Obama hits on the real issue with republican obstructionism: In this entire year and a half of cleaning up the mess, it’s been tough because the folks very responsible for a large portion of this mess decided to stand on … Continue reading →

I really am starting to think the case against Goldman Sachs is kind of weak: The SEC’s complaint against Goldman Sachs alleges that it defrauded clients by conspiring with hedge-fund manager John Paulson to create collateralized debt obligations on subprime … Continue reading →

The case against Goldman doesn’t seem totally open and shut. But in 2006, some inside Goldman began to worry about the fragile state of housing. Daniel L. Sparks, the Texan who ran the mortgage unit, sided with those who believed … Continue reading →

Nicholas Kristof tours Africa and seems to get the wrong message, starting with this missive about everyone needing a helicopter: We humans are suckers for certain kinds of wildlife, from lions to elephants. I hadn’t known I was a zebra … Continue reading →

Nicholas Kristof is a smart man but I think he kind of misses the point when he talks about Catholic groups in Africa: But there’s more to the picture than that. In my travels around the world, I encounter two … Continue reading →

A Lynx relocated to Colorado went all the way back to Canada, only to be killed by an asshole: It was an extraordinary journey of 1,200 miles – from Silverton, Colorado to Nordegg, Alberta, Canada. And although the life of … Continue reading →

One labor leader thinks he has the answer: I am going to talk tonight about anger—and specifically the anger of working people. I want to explain why working people are right to be mad about what has happened to our … Continue reading →

From Washingtonmonthly.com: HUCKABEE, FAMILIES, AND PUPPIES…. Republican Mike Huckabee — former Arkansas governor, former presidential candidates, and Fox News personality — hasn’t made much of an effort to hide his contempt for gay people. What’s interesting, though, is that as … Continue reading →

I have been trying to follow bike racing and it is very confusing, but this guy sounds pretty good: ROUBAIX, France (AFP) – Swiss Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara won the Paris-Roubaix one day classic cycling race on Sunday to … Continue reading →