Rick's Rants

Paul Krugman – The Town Hall Mob – NYTimes.com
But right now Mr. Obama’s backers seem to lack all conviction, perhaps because the prosaic reality of his administration isn’t living up to their dreams of transformation. Meanwhile, the angry right is filled with a passionate intensity.

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
The best lack all conviction, [...]

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This was the core of our argument in YRUU:Daily Kos: The Myth of Certainty: Obama, Liberals & Daily Kos
(Gene McCarthy used to say that the process was more important than the result; whether you believe that or not, the point is that without a process that recognizes the possiblity that our side is wrong, no [...]

Al Rogers has a great photo spread on Al Franken at Daily Kos: Senator Al Franken.   This one of Al and Franni in college is my favorite… The other attached pic is Al in Little League.

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Sorry for cluttering this thing up with all the twitter chatter…

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To call me a rightwing hack is just ludicrous.” Tucker Carlson, Reliable Sources, CNN

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Eschaton:
I’ve written about this before, but just to restate my objections…

The gas tax is already an approximation of a mileage tax. To the extent that it isn’t a perfect mileage tax… great! It’s also tax on heavy cars, which cause more road damage, and a tax on gas guzzlers, which are, you know, bad.

As for [...]

I just got email from ‘The Mic’ entitled “A new show starts Monday! The message contains a picture and logo from the Bill Press show (as well as a photo and link to Bruce Springsteen content and a widget advertising “2009 Polar Plunge”). Taking a wild guess, I think this means that the Bill Press [...]

The retrotech (reel-to-reel tape, antique desks, etc.) works in Galactica because it is shorthand, standing in an oddly acceptable way for the salvaged nature of the BSG environment. The “rag-tag band.”

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