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Happily, you need not invest the next few weeks of your life reading the 1,990-page House overhaul of the health-insurance — and by implication, the healthcare — industry. A convenient summary has been provided, compliments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans
and reduce the growth in health care spending, and
for other [...]
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I was certain that Freddy Gray had mentioned here earlier what is possibly the best television program ever made, Armando Ianucci’s devastating satire of British politics The Thick of It (possibly NSFW for language), but cannot find it this morning. Nonetheless I advise anybody who reads or writes for The American Conservative to see it, and keep [...]
Somebody called Zac Morgan at David Frum’s New Majority site berates Rachel Maddow for daring to make jokes about the rumors that the Obama administration is trying to drop the phrase “Global War on Terror.” This is no laughing matter, says Mr Morgan:
Maddow snarked about inaccurate reports that President Obama had changed the name [...]
Rushing in where even a quarter-century’s worth of genocidal Indonesians feared to tread, comes East Timor’s über-babe Amivi Gama–new President for Life, C-in-C of the Armed Forces, and High Court Chief Justice–whose smack of firm government has been subjected to a misogynistic media embargo, breached only, of course, by the ever-indispensable Onion:
East Timor’s First Female Dictator Hailed As Step Forward [...]
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From the Onion’s feature on the Obama administration’s first 100 days:
DAY 41: Sixteen hours and 25 cups of coffee into a Treasury Dept. strategy session, Tim Geithner proposes nationalizing CitiGroup, Bank of America, all nine seasons of Seinfeld, toast, Albania, and the third law of thermodynamics.
Barak Obama, being the smart cookie that he is, moved quickly to disarm his potential opposition among the Cosmo pundit class by recently meeting with several notable Right and Left wing columnists. The lists of Right-wing social democrats were: George Will, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Larry Kudlow, David Brooks, Rich Lowry, Peggy Noonan, Michael Barone, and [...]
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Dave Barry on 2008:
How weird a year was it?
Here’s how weird:
• O.J. actually got convicted of something.
• Gasoline hit $4 a gallon — and those were the good times.
• On several occasions, Saturday Night Live was funny.
• There were a few days there in October when you could not completely rule out the possibility that [...]
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Throwing shoes at people isn’t polite. But video games aren’t real, so enjoy Sock and Awe — about a million other people have so far. (H/t to Eric Margolis.)
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