My ten-year old excitedly tells my seven-year old while watching American Idol:
It’s the guys from Fairly Odd Parents!
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Press release from U.S. Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin
For Immediate Release
April 9, 2009
DURBIN AND ILLINOIS DELEGATION ASK DOT TO SUPPORT REVIVAL OF ILLINOIS TRAIN CAR INDUSTRY
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today led the Illinois Congressional Delegation in asking [...]
Boy, I hope Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to set up a good cop/bad cop dynamic with MoveOn and Americans United for Change. The only other alternative I see is depressing.
In a TPM article that I otherwise think gets it right, “MSNBC Reports Defense Cuts, Guest Corrects Record,” reporter Brian Beutler writes that
“I don’t think this tendency [to report a modest budget increase as a "steep" budget cut] stems from an intentional malice – it’s more of an epiphenomenon rooted in years of being led [...]
Matt Yglesias has an interesting piece about educational levels around the Great Depression compared to today that reflects on Paul Krugman’s pessimism about the economy and Ryan Avent’s optimism. The question is where will our economic recovery come from (and how soon)?
I’m no economist, but my sense is we are not likely to recover [...]
While I haven’t written much about it due to time, there’s been a tremendous amount of nonsense (polite term) going on with the College of DuPage (COD) Board of Trustees over the last few years. Trustees resigning because of board ineffectiveness and poor leadership with the incumbent trustee board chair investigated and sued because [...]
Ryan Avent points to a study showing that in some cases reduced vehicle traffic has gone below the “tipping point” where congestion gets really bad and produces traffic jams
“In other words, roads work really well up to a point, and then they work really badly. And many, many roads in America work really badly much [...]
Scary. I was listening to NPR this AM and thought of Dean Baker when this went on. It appears he was thinking the same thing.
My almost seven-year old informed me last weekend that it was “dumb” that we have only two days off on the weekend because if you need to go to California that takes two days, and then when you get back you’ve missed two days of school. He thought “the Mayor” should do something about [...]
A [neo-progressive?] is a conservative who is bugged by reality.
It’s striking that just a couple days after David Brooks complained about conservative nihilism we have the leading exemplar, Bill Kristol, writing an article that advocates conservative nihilism openly.
How far conservativism as a movement has fallen. How much further, it seems, it has to fall.
