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On Romney's claim that he saw his father march with Martin Luther King
Posted on December 21, 2007The Romster has been taking quite a bit of abuse on this one, especially given the added revelation that in 1978 he told the Boston Globe: "My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit."He has been defending himself by saying that "saw" means "was aware of," not literally "saw," a defense that I gather he will not try to extend to the 1978 claim...
Double standards
Posted on December 20, 2007It's kind of interesting how the very same Senate Republicans who were threatening to invoke the "nuclear option" and destroy filibustering if the Democrats used it even a tiny bit, have now set the all-time 200-year record for filibusters in a single two-year Congressional term, in just eleven months...
Quotations of the year
Posted on December 19, 2007These are arguably the ten most memorable quotations of the year (U.S. only). I didn't find them myself - seven are from Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, as reported on-line in today's New York Times, and three are from an article by James Parker, posted on 12/18 at http://thephoenix...
Evidence from the crime scene
Posted on December 17, 2007I'd like to see Shadow and Buddy offer an innocent explanation of this little number. They know perfectly well that counter-top visits, and our food, are off-limits. Not that they care particularly, as one can see, but it is something they know.
A bit too convenient
Posted on December 17, 2007OK, a baseball aside admittedly reflecting my anti-Yankee bias.First Andy Pettitte is named in the Mitchell report for using human growth hormone. Then he promptly apologizes for using it just twice. So sorry about those two days, he says, "if what I did was an error in judgment...
Worth every penny?
Posted on December 17, 2007The U.S. Treasury has just issued the 2007 Financial Report of the U.S. Government, available here.Money quote, from page 32 of the document:"[The report's measure of the long-term U.S. fiscal gap] totaled approximately $53 trillion as of September 30, 2007 ...
Don't play for money, folks - he's a ringer
Posted on December 07, 2007On a lighter note, here is a new photo of my cat, Buddy, which has just been posted, but fairly far down the page, at stuffonmycat.com
Mitt Romney and my novel, Getting It
Posted on December 07, 2007My unpublished comic novel, Getting It, features a convoluted set of battles between the "hero," a character who is a complete phony and hypocrite, and his rival, who is even worse by reason of being a true believer in the values of their workplace, and no phony or hypocrite at all...
Michael Graetz's tax reform plan
Posted on December 06, 2007Today I was at a session at Columbia Law School where Michael Graetz presented his tax reform plan, from a forthcoming book. Among his main ideas is to enact a VAT and use some of the revenues to give the income tax a $100,000 exemption amount, thereby eliminating income tax filing for people earning less than that...
More bug-swatting (Mitt Romney edition)
Posted on December 06, 2007Shorter Mitt Romney, from his speech today: Being a Mormon is okay, but being an atheist isn't.Ugly intolerance fits poorly, to my mind, in a speech requesting tolerance.Since this raises my ire, let's have some fun with Romney's tax plan, which I had previously not commented on because it seemed just too easy...
Iran news
Posted on December 04, 2007I consider the NIE news the best that I have heard for a very long time. Good news not only about what's happening in Iran, but about the chances of stopping the lunatic Bush Administration rush to war. I had been periodically very worried about this...
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Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...
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You local court will probably have someone to offer you some assistance as you p...
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