...more recent posts
"Obama can pass health care with Democrats and then legitimately call it bipartisan by citing public support. But he has to not care that David Broder and David Brooks have a hissy fit over it. They do not speak for Americans; they don't even speak for Republicans on this one."
just last week he was twittering about his favorite falafel vendors in tehran.
Sick of this media obsession with Iran! The blogs are also full of these stories.
THE SECRET HISTORY: Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past? by Jane Mayer
even the liberal fox news....
What a maroon.
During my brief visits, no one in France spelled my first name correctly or pronounced my last name correctly. I neither lived there, nor was I on their highest court.
Cue idiot legislator from Texas.
green day
howie klein
down with tyranny
the cut and the pasted
the appropriationist: MoDo
and the appropriated: JoMa
OECD report
Here are the US rankings out of the 30 OECD countries (1 is best; 30 is worst -- worst as in Somalia-like). The names of the countries even more Somalian than the US appear in parens.
Infant Deaths: 28 out of 30 (Mexico, Turkey).
Life Expectancy: 24 out of 30 (Mexico, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Czech & Slovak Republics).
Health Expenditures: 1 out of 30.
Poverty Rates: 28 out of 30 (Mexico, Turkey).
Child Poverty: 27 out of 30 (Mexico, Turkey, Poland).
Income Inequality: 27 out of 30 (Mexico, Turkey, Portugal).
Obesity: 30 out of 30.
Incarceration: 30 out of 30.
Work Hours (ranked in ascending order): 30 out of 30.
Height (women): 25 out of 30 (Mexico, Turkey, Korea, Portugal, Japan).
Height (men): 24 out of 30 (Italy, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Korea, Japan).