Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
via Senator Ted Kaufman — Senator for Delaware: Newsroom – Press Release. Kaufman also reiterated his belief, expressed in several previous floor speeches, that the only way to “truly eliminate” the problems of “too-big-to-fail” banks is to break them apart, thus limiting their size and leverage. “The Great Depression of the 1930s must be avoided [...]
Romney Wins SRLC Straw Poll By One Vote | TPMDC. It’s early on, but this strikes me as good news. If Mitt were to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, disgruntled teabaggers would surely need to run a third party against Socialist Mitt. Splitting the right-wing vote promotes the idea of a viable third (or [...]
Oh wait. I guess those were two separate stories. Still, that’s pretty cool.
Jokes about New Jersey (“What Exit?”), like jokes about Wisconsin (“Cheese & Beer & Snow“), are easy to come by. I’ve spent my first two and past 12 years in Wisconsin, but my mother was raised in New Jersey, and I still return (not as often as I’d like) to visit my cousins and friends [...]
I was angry when Ralston-Purina, focusing their energies on the chocolate chip flavor, stopped production of vanilla Cookie Crisp. I was nine years old. I wrote them a letter. And so began my political activism, and relative indifference toward chocolate.
My admiration of Emma Thompson helped me to overcome my reluctance to watch the movie Stranger than Fiction. Watching the movie was a small triumph over my fear that Queen Latifa would settle for yet another roll that might call into question her royal designation. Last week, my friend John and I were discussing the [...]
With Pennsylvanians about to decide whether to goad Hillary into extending the run of the Clinton Circus another month or two, let’s pause to remember how good this guy used to be. Wise words.
If the internet is a race, I should’ve posted this a few days ago. Maybe that only matters if you’re blogging for money. I’m not, which is why I didn’t post this a few days ago when, well, I was working for money. But yeah, there was this interview. I realize most of you weren’t [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
