Are they de facto socialists? (This is a video, well worth watching, linking gay marriage, corporate welfare, etc.)
“Unexpectedly” is used in obituaries as a polite euphemism for suicide. “Unexpectedly” is used by the press for bad economic news. Coincidence?
Posted in Economics, Jay
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Via Glenn Reynolds, an interesting look at what we think of adultery in politicians, and in general, given the Mark Sanford political suicide.
I’d never really thought about it, but it makes sense that we elect people based on integrity and commitment – heck, willingness to do more than pay lip service to both law and norms – to one degree or another. If you are flagrant before the fact, that’s probably it for you, when it’s a marriage.
It doesn’t even matter whether you and your spouse are differently normed and have a relationship you might consider more open than others, or if your marriage has alteady undergone zombification. Public perception is everything.
It may be old-fashioned, but there it is.
After the fact? Then it’ll look bad, as with Clinton, but performance matters and, frankly, perception of your spouse and relationship matter as well. If yours is widely perceived as a marriage of power and convenience, the sting might be less. And even so, look at the frenzy over Monica.
It may not be right, but it’s reality. Speaking of which, Republicans need to tout less morality and more reality, if they are to have a chance.
I just noticed a brief commentary by someone I respect on the libertarian right, and I know there are many others, absolutely vehement against trade with Cuba.
On some level, I can see that. However, I can also see what has and has not worked there and elsewhere to liberalize things. I’m all for a change to engagement, in the case of Cuba.
Trouble is, that potentially messes with the sugar and corn lobbies in the United States.
The price of sugar is artificially propped up here, tied into the whole Cuba thing, and who is more involved in the US sugar industry than ex-pats. In turn, this creates demand for corn syrup as a substitute, and all that it implies, including suspicion of a connection to the “obesity epidemic.” I question the timing.
There are powerful forces who hear sweet music to their ears when they hear folks who might otherwise be onto them cheer on the continued economic embargo of Cuba.
Unconstitutional.
Just like McCain-Feingold.
Just like the Kelo taking.
Not like the “conservative” Court is going to save us.
At least the draft can be reasonably argued as a sometimes necessary evil, despite it being the also unconstitutional slippery slope that’ll probably give the Supremes “justification” to roll over and play dead. Or illiterate, anyway.
Posted in Jay, Politics
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If Gwen Ifill were moderating the Obama/McCain debate, then that would make her impossibly partisan.
This is merely the Palin/Biden debate. How could she be impartial if her buddy isn’t in it? Not like the appearance of impropriety matters. And how could she possibly be doing anything inappropriate? She isn’t a Republican! Or even a conservative. Sheesh.
Posted in Jay, Politics
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But the fellow who wrote this article? Totally on the list.
Because I’ve been turned away from help for suffering “realistic” depression, and it was one of the most staggeringly painful, humiliating, and damaging things that ever happened to me.
So there you go.
Posted in Deb, Health Care
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What, exactly, do the freaking Russians think they’re up to? I mean, this? Forfuckssake. Reads like a bad joke. What a bunch of assholes.
Posted in Deb, Politics
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