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Some of the crazy sh!t people believe and act on is derived from their religious traditions. That doesn’t make it any less crazy. Nor does calling out that craziness instantiate bigotry.
Archive for August, 2011
August 17th, 2011
Anyone who has followed Mark’s and Harold’s diligent chronicling of the Rick Perry crazy over the last few days should hardly be surprised when he says something inane. But if you’re going to be a nutcase paranoid, you should at least make sense on your own terms. Too high a bar, apparently. Today, Perry rehashed [...]
August 17th, 2011
Category: Mitt Romney
The Tea Party is unpopular, but Mitt Romney has to pretend to be “in synch” with the movement. And that’s the box the GOP finds itself in.
August 17th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court
Dear Justices, if you plan to damage health reform, please do so openly, leaving your activist fingerprints on the product.
August 17th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
Warren B’s call for higher taxes on the rich should delight their accountants. We need job growth and a growth in the number of accountants would count! His OP-ED reminded me that I have written an unknown paper on this topic. Bill Gentry and I had a smart thought. For each U.S zip code, you [...]
August 17th, 2011
Category: Campaign 2012
Matt Zeitlin has a nice column on the Romney “corporations are people” clip and the genuine “hack gap” between Democratic and Republican parties.
August 16th, 2011
Category: Health and Medicine, NonProfits
Safety-net providers and urban teaching hospitals might come out ahead if one could trade the nonprofit exemption for a functional Medicaid system.
August 16th, 2011
Category: Microeconomics and policy analysis
Jacksonville, Florida has avoided it so successfully that residents who find rabid animals in their yards are completely on their own. After all, freedom includes the freedom to get rabies.
August 16th, 2011
Category: Rick Perry
… contains a couple of provisions not included in the document the rest of us use.
August 16th, 2011
Once upon a time, a fair number of very rich people had a sense of obligation to the society in which they did so well, including both children of wealth who learned about philanthropy and maybe a duty to stand for office along with the difference between a sheet and a sail and which side [...]