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DougJ at Balloon Juice on Sarah Palin.
Archive for November, 2009
November 18th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Right now, there look to be four Republican Presidential candidates for 2012: Palin, Huckabee, Romney, and Pawlenty. Romney, despite the doubts about whether he’s actually a flesh-and-blood human as opposed to an improbably pretty android, is the only one of the four who can plausibly be imagined either winning a Presidential contest or not looking silly in the [...]
November 18th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Not every Democrat who voted “no” on health reform deserves a primary challenger, and the leadership deserves the benefit of the doubt until the game is over.
November 17th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Many years ago I had a chance to do some work on health care policy and turned it down because it looked too hard. I’ve never regretted the decision, but never acquired any special expertise. Watching the current debate, I’m a little mystified that most of the discussion of insurance companies has focused on underwriting, [...]
November 17th, 2009
A listserv I belong to had an admiring post about the Pacquiao-Cotto fight (you don’t need a link, one guy beat the sh*t out of the other one, and the ref had to stop the fight in the 12th), and I rose to the bait with some snark about people who get off on that [...]
November 17th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Doesn’t the Convention Against Torture mean we don’t have to hear that song? Especially before Thanksgiving?
November 16th, 2009
If it’s good enough for B of A and Chase, then it is good enough for the Treasury Department. No questions asked.
November 16th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Can you break up an epidemic of fraudulent loan-brokerage the same way you break up a street drug market?
November 16th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
“If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”