Ezra Klein, a junior at UCLA, putting words and ideas together in ways I only wish I could: Bush, of course, has been this strange mixture of government growth and administrative incompetence, almost as if he’s running a kamikaze mission to prove the Republican case against government. But conservatives, generally, are all for the private market and individual charity. If Bush really was so uncomfortable with government involvement, he could still do a bang-up job…
Damn. There is so much happening right now that I want to talk about. Old news is piling up. This is from yesterday, I think. Susan Wood, director of the FDA’s Office of Women’s Health is resigning more or less because of the agency’s decision to postpone indefinitely its decision on whether to allow the morning-after pill to sell without a prescription. “I can no longer serve as staff when scientific and clinical evidence, fully…
Look at California, being all progressive and shit, trying to let same-sex couples get married without a court order. This is interesting because the Senate voted today to legalize same-sex marriages even though in 2000, California voters approved a referendum defining marriage as a union between two members of the opposite sex. So … Senate activists as opposed to judicial activists? Who will we villify if not the godless judges?!? Anyway, the California Assembly still…
Even as I was writing that post about how some in the far reaches of the country might not be paying attention to or caring about Katrina enough, it felt a little too cocksure and a little too heavily based on assumption and emotion. But I was mad at the thought that there are people out there who don’t know and don’t care what’s going on (because I know they’re out there), so I just…
I know Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, has an enormously stressful job, but today he argued with NPR’s Robert Siegel about reports that thousands of people are still stranded at the convention center with no food, no water, no law enforcement, nothing, despite having been told by officials that they should go there to be taken care of. With shit and piss everywhere and two dead bodies already pushed in a corner, draped…
I called Amber last night when I left work to see how she was doing and get her take on Katrina (her grandparents live on the Florida coast) and she was surprised to hear that the situation in New Orleans especially is so dire. She doesn’t have internet at home, and I’m unsure if she has a TV or not. She said at the bar in her restaurant (where she spent 12 hours working yesterday,…
The news that Ron Popeil is selling Ronco came as a surprise to me, because if I were an inventor-slash-infomercial superstar, I would never, ever give it up to spend time with my grubby children. And that is because — I confess — I love infomercials. God, I love them so much. I’m not sure why, but I always have. I don’t know what pulls me in faster: the hosts’ unabashedly overdone acting, the completely…
I’ve been to New Orleans once. The picture above is what the hotel I stayed in looks like today. I can’t recall exactly why, but I wasn’t terribly fond of New Orleans when I was there. I thought the French Quarter was quaint, but Bourbon Street smelled like vomit and liquor. Plus the constant “show us your tits” chorus that rang through the area grated on my nerves a bit, even though the horny men…
I neglected to mention that Memphis recorded the year’s 100th homicide the other day. Here’s the story. That brings us to within 18 of last year’s total, which is sort of a fluke since last year’s total was a 25-year low. If it’s any comfort, it may not have been a true homicide, since the shooter says he and a friend were just hanging out and he accidentally shot the guy and killed him. Well,…
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