Archive for March, 2009
Food Simplicity
I went to college with a lot of opinionated vegans and subsequently had a lot of conversations about food. Before that nobody in my family really “talked” about food, we just cooked and eat it.
Having read into the various claims that compromise the modern argument for veganism and vegetarianism, I have to say that [...]
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Tags: Food Policy, Mark Bittman, Organic, Veganism
In Defense of Budget Trickery
David Broder and many other people have criticized Kent Conrad’s decision to shift the budget window from ten to five years, in line with Bush’s budget practices. While making half the debt disappear by changing the dates certainly seems shifty, it’s actually makes more sense to use a five year window.
Predictions longer then five years [...]
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Tags: 5 year budget window, David Broder, Kent Conrad
Military Spending: Priceless
It was clear that John McCain was in good cop mode during his appearance on Meet the Press, but I couldn’t help notice the speed with which he transitioned from bitching about the budget situation, to endorsing the indefinite deployment of troops in Afghanistan.
It’s rare see to quite such a quick transition from calls [...]
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Tags: John McCain, Meet the Press, Military Spending
This the second year in a row where the Washington Post has run articles about how the Nationals have too many starter quality players at the same position. Last year they seriously expected to think having two first baseman, both of whom we’re huge injury risks, was some kind of “problem” for the organization because [...]
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Tags: Washington Nationals
Young People and the Recession
This article in Slate does a good job addressing some ideas I had wanted to write about, but haven’t really been able to frame properly. Read the whole thing, but here’s the opening:
Apprehension, with an enduring edge to it. That’s the general mood among the twentysomethings I’ve heard from during the last several weeks in [...]
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Tags: Economy, Recession
Dear Future Generations:
Sorry to report that our efforts to secure a plentiful future free global warming for you have come to end. Yes we were all quite hopeful that Barack Obama’s election would lead to a future where clean energy was abundant, but today we got news that our efforts have lead to nothing short [...]
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Tags: Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Damn You Gandhi!, Michelle Bachmann
So Much For Natural Selection
So today I serious crossed the street without looking in either direction because I changing the song my ipod was playing. And oncoming traffic had a green light and everything. I was just following the guy in front of me.
It’s a wonder I’ve been alive this long.
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Tags: Stupid Bloggers
Michelle Malkin and a lot of talking head TV types have been talking about AIG contributing to Chuck Grassley and Obama’s campaigns. It’s usually left unsaid that what exactly is wrong with that. The current fundraising rules mean that any major politician will get significant contributions from employees of any major corporation, so it’s unavoidable.
More [...]
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Tags: AIG, AIG Bonuses, Campaign Finance
Here is food revolutionary Alice Waters on 60 Minutes last Sunday.
One issue that always comes up with Alice Waters is the idea of elitism. The back and forth follows that her ideas are elitist because they require significant financial resources to be enacted and reject the behavior of most Americans, to [...]
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Tags: Alice Waters, Organic Food, Slow Food
I had wanted to comment on the “let us filibuster climate change letter” that 8 Democrats signed, but I effectively lost my internet connection all weekend. Here’s TPMDC:
When President Obama submitted a budget that predicted passage of a revenue-raising climate change bill, hopes rose that Congress could successfully rein in carbon emissions this year.
But a [...]
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Tags: Budget Reconciliation, Climate Change, filibuster, Global Warming, Senate
Andrew Sullivan has been writing some solid commentary on Chaz Freeman, but in this post I think he makes a common mistake.
I don’t understand why Block and AIPAC can’t lobby against an appointment in public, in the light of day, and for attribution. Even in my own emails with Block, there was an absurd kabuki [...]
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Tags: AIPAC, Chas Freeman
The visuals for this video and the associated Wikipedia were enough to get me to order put the Battleship Potemkim on my Netflix queue.
I’ve always wondered if watching historical cinema really delivered much to the hoi polloi movie goer such as myself. I guess we’ll see. At least it’s not that [...]
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Tags: Battleship Potemkin
Who Needs Banks Anyway
ING reduced the rate of their savings account 3 times in like 31 days recently. It reminded of one thing I never got about banks is that so few seemed to make any effort at all to get customers. Particularly for savings accounts, but for CDs, checking, home loans the big commercial banks never seem [...]
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Tags: Banking Crisis, Banks, Citi, ING
Reading this paranoid delusion from Glen Beck makes me really wonder if there is anybody paying attention at CNN and Fox News:
So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research, and then some, fundamentally changing – remember, those great progressive doctors are the ones who brought [...]
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Tags: Fox News, Glen Beck
Someday A Hero Will Come…
Josh Marshall last night:
Dems gloat after Rush awards himself sole custody of Steele’s testicles.
I feel it’s safe to predict eventually some prominent Republican will step up, criticize Rush Limbaugh, and not apologize for their comments a day later.
Such a person will hold a legendary place in Republican party lore for generations.
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Tags: Micheal Steele, Rush Limbaugh
Give The Voters More Credit
I thought this post by Matthew Yglesias was too pessimistic on two counts.
This certainly isn’t where the country is right now but it’s not so unreasonable to think that things might change. I think we’ll be growing again in late 2012 and Obama will probably get re-elected no matter Republicans say or do. [...]
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Tags: Intra-Republican Fight, Republican Party
American Healthcare
Andrew Sullivan put this mssg from a reader up today:
My husband has worked for the University of California for 25 years. He was given his 3 month notice two weeks ago. He already has been applying for jobs. He is competing with 50 applicants, minimum, according to those in [...]
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Tags: Healthcare Reform
Speculation Uncertain
Washington Post online subhead on the publication of recently found writings by David Foster Wallace:
Speculation on publication of posthumous work from David Foster Wallace was once uncertain.
Glad they cleared up the state of speculation.
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Tags: David Foster Wallace
Jim Bowden Resigns
So Jim Bowden is out as the Nationals General Manager. I’m sure it was pressure from bloggers like me, and not the FBI investigation that did him in.
Anyway after elaborating why he was a bad GM, I decided I’d been a little too harsh. I still think he was a bad GM, [...]
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Tags: Jim Bowden, Washington Nationals
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