"the President’s astonishingly shallow reflections on why he ran into trouble "

The smartest president we ever had?

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/confidence-men-ron-suskind

Fascinating.

The President's new tone

By now, we have all become accustomed to condescending lectures from Professor Obama.

But it will take the nation some time to get used to the fact that his insults are delivered in a hoarse yell, with a phony, uneducated veneer to make it sound populist.

What's *Really* Wrong With the Economy?

John Judis, in the New Republic:

"Obama needs to tell people what’s really wrong with the economy, and what needs to be done. Otherwise, he is not doing his job.”

The problem is that he can't say what he really thinks, which is that the government needs to spend a Ton More Money, and that the fair thing to do is just confiscate it from People Who Don't Really Need It.  The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, he probably thinks.

He's Baaaaaack!

(from Politico)

 

Oh, no:

·  Blago: I was 'bamboozled'

He is seeking a new trial, alleging judicial bias and no "presumption of innocence."

Michelle Bachmann, the Pope, and the Antichrist

Good piece on the guffaw-worthiness of journalism at the Atlantic magazine.

http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/surprise-the-reformation-happened.html

Walking the Beach

I spent 90 minutes or so this morning exploring the beach at La Jolla Shores with my daughter and two young boys visiting from Beijing. Normally, we go there to walk a couple brisk miles as we watch the waves roll in. Today, we were beachcombers, stopping to check out any shell, pattern of sand, flora or fauna that looked interesting. I saw several things I have never seen before.

Then it hit me: there are so many things that we "blow right by" as we live our lives. How many wonderful things are we missing because we are trying to get where we are going just a few minutes earlier?

How digital detectives deciphered Stuxnet, the most menacing malware in history

If somebody really, really wants to get you...

...they can:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet-the-most-menacing-malware-in-history.ars/

wow.

 

Somebody, please tell the president what bluffing is.

“Don’t call my bluff.”

-President Barack Obama, July 13, 2011

 

Would someone please tell Obama that if he going to bluff, he is not supposed to announce it?

 

What’s next?

 

Please don’t challenge my lie.

Why aren’t you taking my bait?

Why are you looking at me like I’m nuts?

 

 

A Great Day in the Annals of Cleaning Up the USA

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-blagojevich-jurors-going-into-their-10th-day-20110627,0,620170.story

 

Guilty on 17 counts.

Acquitted on 1.

Deadlocked on 2.

 

Thank you, Patrick Fitzgerald, for getting it right, this time.

 

 

Samuel Johnson

For at least a decade I have been thinking, I have simply GOT to read me some Samuel Johnson, seeing as how everybody thinks he's so durned smart.

Now that I've finished John Wain's bio of him and read Rambler no. 2 and no. 8, I realize what I have been missing.

If I were English, I would make it a point of pride to share Johnson with the world, and claim him as one of the greatest men who ever lived. As I am mostly Irish, German, and -- um -- mixed, I will content myself with saying that he is a damned fine read.

Regarding Wiki Leaks: Assange as Dirty Harry?

 

 

 

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/12/03/wikileaks/permalink/62ae7f6858877fd8e57f87e7cee801c3.html

Another Obama Success!

Ha, ha.  Just kidding.

 

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/19/the_cadillac_of_bad_ideas_108008.html

 

 

 

This one has got some guts...

 

 

 

whoop! There it is!!

 

The New White House Standard: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

David Axelrod, the president's senior adviser, was asked Sunday by Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation" on CBS if he had any evidence that the chamber was using secret foreign funds to influence the election.

"Well, do you have any evidence that it's not, Bob?" Mr. Axelrod replied.

Does anybody else think this is twisted?

"You say you're not a communist.  Can you prove it?"

Good Lord.

President Pinocchio strikes again

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/107664/

 

Anybody who can read this without disgust for President Obama has truly lost his way.

 

-Wrecktafire

Disgusting

First the Climategate emails.

Then the peer-reviewed expert report supporting the six-month drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.

Now this: 

 

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026643.php

 

 

Looks like a pattern, to me.

 

Sex Abuse Hysteria?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/anti-catholicism-again

Old hate has a new excuse.

Sigh.

On writing

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/06/20/walts-words-of-wisdom/#comment-111950

 

 

 

How Washington is this?

http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Seung_Min_Kim_C6204608-DD57-423F-BE18-85E94DAB2681.html

Things that make ya' say "ugh!"