For Those With No Life

Why arguing with your conservative friends is like kloppen kupf in vant.

Gatemouth, the Encyclopedia Brooklynica of Kings County politics"—No Land Grab, 2/23/2010

Yglesias says Lincoln’s a corpse, so let's shoot her–Chair demurs, and I think, so do I

Ben Smith blew off my party in honor of the blog he owns, so he made up for it by gving me a national link (item #5)–now some peckerwood will probably make a pilgrimage to burn a cross on my lawn, only to discover I don't have one.

I'm not necessarily adverse to implementing ideas that discomfort the teacher's unions–but only if they work

My previous awe of Nate Silver has definitely been dampened by the realization he has no clue what the boundaries are for neighborhoods in Brownstone Brooklyn. Just for the record he ranks the neighborhood where we I 7th, though if one uses his boundaries (in which Boerum Hill includes not one block in the Boerum Hill Assn's catchment area), we are in #3!

The horse Wall Street rode in on is named Mitch McConnell

Coburn is not merely conservative–he's right wing; but it is also clear he has qualities of menschitude

Norm Ohrenstein is a fount of bland establishment conventional wisdom. For him to write such a strong piece shows how far Republicans have slipped into lunacy

The Party of No Won't say Yes to Proposing its own ideas

For those who think I'm not sufficiently Zionist (and don't feel like calling Brad Lander for his opinion)–I just want to remind you that Norman Finkelstein is garbage wrapped in skin.

Weisberg says blame Kristol, but can we add lack of integrity?

I don't find the credential of being a Taxi and Limousine Commission Judge too impressive; and the batting average for TLC judges seeking elective office is pathetic (as are some of the TLC judges who've done so) –but he's running against Carl Kruger. I'm not saying I'd vote for a dead dog against Kruger, but I'd probably vote for a dog who was terminally ill.

Title? "A Cut Above"? "Heart of Glass"?

His greatest distinction. He'll soon be the one person in American to have written more books than he's read.

I happen to know Chris St. Lawrence, and like him a lot–and I think Bill Samuels is a good guy with good ideas–but HELLO–an all white ticket at a time we are dumping an African American Governor is just not tenable. Wake up and sell the G-ddamn coffee guys. Chris, why not run against Morahan?

“State's Right's” is a code word. And they don't even mean it. Ask them about tort law or DOMA and “State's Rights” is then a luxury we can't afford.

Kinsley rewrites this article every time a vacancy opens on the Court. In earlier times, the points he made were as harsh on liberals as conservative; no so here. Back then, bad faith and hypocrisy ran evenly on both sides. It hasn't really lessened on our side, but the conservatives have just gotten so much worse.

The news from Brooklyn: All that glitters is not Goldstein, but there is Goldstein in them thar concrete hills.

It's not that I necessarily think Obama's policies are the right ones and (like Kinsley, but unlike most other liberals) I accept the notion that mutually assured destruction was a policy which once served us well, but what are your alternatives? I've yet to hear any thoughtful conservative critic of Obama, or thoughtful left one, articulate any policy ideas which intelligently deal with the nuclear dilemmas we face in this century. At least BHO is asking the right questions

Two scam artists bond

The other Senator from Mamaroneck; sad to say that this is one of the better State Senate Democrats–and you should only see the Republicans

Immigration is one of those issues where Huckabee's always asked Wjt Jesus Would Do, and one of those where he's most shown his underlying humanity (such that it is). In this clip, he tries to supress this decent aspect of himself, and nearly succeeds, but his better angels do show just a bit in spite of his efforts.

Dybbuk got so mad at Domestic Partner, he threatened to send her to Arizona without her documents

In an effort to prevent abortions, a new law in Oklahoma prevents women from suing doctors who knowingly withhold information about the fetus, including whether there's a fetal abnormality. I understand that the pro-choicers in the State are few and poorly organized, but what the hell happened to their Trial Lawyers’ Association?

Just when it appeared that Republicans had the monopoly on idiocy, Brain Dead Leftist Jane Hamsher accuses Obama of the left equivalent of "death panels."