A Big Picture Look At the Stimulus One Year On
And it is -- on the terms it was passed -- a definite success. David Leonhart wrote this must read article at the NYT on Tuesday, that starts like this:…
Late Night Video — Paul Krugman
This is a lecture that Paul Krugman gave at MIT recently -- The Economic Meltdown: What Have We Learned, if Anything? Krugman tried to explain how we got here AND why it seems so hard to wrap our minds around strong policy to fix it. In many ways, he thinks that we never really learned the lessons of the Great Depression, including that for all of the risk that bankers put us in, the greatest risk may just be a government policy apparatus that will be happier with a political fix rather than a systemic one.
Rally for Health Care Reform
This is an announcement from Darlene Battle -- and I hope that lots of you will be able to go to one of these, it's a worthy cause: Delaware Residents…
Evan Bayh is Full of It
After Evan Bayh announced his retirement yesterday, this is the soundbite (or at least portions of it) that I heard for the rest of the day (and this morning too):…
A Note to the Media (and Comment Rescue)
a. price (one of our favorite commenters) points us to a link over at CBS News, where we find a journalist named Stephanie Condon who seems to be actually trolling…
Mike Castle Flip Flops on Stimulus Funds
Flip Flop. Anybody remember when you couldn't fire up the news without hearing this about John Kerry? And even though that charge was mostly untrue about Kerry, Flip Flop is…
A Hydrogen Station in Every Home
This is fantastic, and will be killer if they can scale it up:
Dredging the Delaware
The News Journal had an article on Sunday that tries to describe the current state of local environmental concerns about dredging this river. And this is a good article --…
VP Biden Tells Cheney He Can’t Rewrite History
(h/t for this to Truth Teller)
Vice President Biden was on Meet the Press this AM, telling David Gregory that Dick Cheney just can rewrite history accommodate his own prevarications on events during the so-called War on Terror:
Order An Army of These NOW
Please -- City of Wilmington and State of Delaware, we need these Robot Snowplows now: Yuki-taro takes in snow at the front, squeezes it into rectangular bricks, and excretes said…
Top 20 Films Since 1992
According to Quentin Tarantino: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4K-Rxx2Bk[/youtube] This is an interesting list -- most of his picks (that I've seen) are fairly kinetic and/or atmospheric movies that seem to be reflective of…
The Daily Show Deploys More Republican Pwnage
It strikes me that sooner or later someone is going to create The Daily Show Party -- filled with people who not only know their stuff, but who are quick on their feet at countering Republican bulls***. And who won't be cringing behind polling or what the pundits say about them:
Polling: In Which We Find Republicans Still Have a Problem
It is fair to note that this poll shows a pretty toxic environment for both parties, but it seems clear that if you are a Congressional Dem, you have abit of an edge to build from. And if you are a Congressional repub, the massive media spin (and media lock) isn't exactly getting you alot of traction. Not yet, at least.