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Wow, is the Breitbart/Sherrod/Vilsack story a Golconda of learnable moments, or what? Let us count the ways: (1) At some point, USDA was justifying firing Sherrod by proudly pointing to its “zero-tolerance” policy on racism. ‘Zero defects’ is a management slogan with some utility as a goal in quality assurance, actually a restatement of ‘continuous [...]
Archive for July, 2010
July 21st, 2010
Kent Conrad makes clear his relationship to excrement.
July 21st, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
I see where various right-wing trolls, raised in pig-sties, are publishing the names of people on the JournoList website. Obviously, they’ve never heard of privacy, or for that matter decency: the list was conducted under ground rules that made it off the record, so every leak represents a breach of faith. That said, having been [...]
July 21st, 2010
It’s a little funny to be burned in effigy by the conservative movement before you’ve even woken up in the morning.
July 20th, 2010
Category: Political Science, Republican Party
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee usually gets overlooked, but in a reapportionment cycle, it deserves our support.
July 19th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
All good Republicans have to vote against extending unemployment insurance. That’s an unpopular position. More like this, please.
July 19th, 2010
Category: The Dysfunctional Senate, Watching Conservatives
There’s a relatively painless way to pay for the extension of unemployment benefits.
July 19th, 2010
Category: Crime Control
The tape of my Hammer Forum appearance with Chief George Gascón of the San Francisco Police Department, moderated by Ian Masters, is now up, as both video and audio. Since I don’t use any slides and a have a face for radio, you might want to listen to this in the car. (There’s no escape [...]
July 18th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Paved roads? Who needs paved roads? Paved roads, my friends, are a fad, a frill, a big-government nanny-state boondoggle. The Pilgrims didn’t have paved roads. The pioneers didn’t have paved roads. Third-world standards were good enough for them; why shouldn’t they be good enough for us and our children?