This is practically a koan:
In front of audiences, she has taken medication that made her lose consciousness, and stabbed herself repeatedly in the left hand.
OK, ‘koan’ is the wrong word. This is one of those sentences though where you don’t really want to read the rest of the article in order to get the context. It’s hard to come up with context that deserves to have that sentence associated with it. Even actual reality isn’t quite up to it, really.
Via Hot Air Headlines.
No, he is not available for national office: NJ is currently using him. Go get your own.
More of this, please:
NJEA President Barbara Keshishian visited his office this week to apologize for a recent email sent to thousands of teachers by a union official that included a mock prayer for the governor’s death. According to [NJ Governor Chris] Christie, the conversation went something like this: He accepted her apology immediately but asked if the email sender would be fired for “doing something that monumentally stupid.” When the union chief questioned why the man should be fired, Mr. Christie promptly ended the meeting.
That’s from the WSJ’s interview with Christie, which will be refreshing reading for conservatives who may be just a little tired of situations where political rhetoric exceeds actions. In this particular case, the issue of the apology is just a vehicle for the real message: to wit, the Governor of NJ is not afraid of the teachers’ unions, so if the latter wants to win their current dispute with the former they’re going to have to fight for once. Given that support for freezing teacher pay in NJ is two-to-one in Christie’s favor, the governor is in good shape here.
It never occurred to me – although it should have – that the people who make television shows might get a little upset when those shows are canceled on them, but this seems just a tad much.
On the other hand, that show* was full of obnoxious stereotyping anyway, so go Alvarez Impact hypothesis.
Moe Lane
*I was going to flog it, but when I went to go look it up I found this instead:
Much more worth spending your hard-earned money on, particularly if you have a desk.
Do you know what happens when paragraphs like this (via here) are written?
At the end of last month I proffered three potential explanations for the continued fall in the US savings rate. The first explanation was that the economy was in a cyclical recovery predicated on asset price inflation and this gave enough troubled debtors breathing space to spend more freely. The second explanation was the opposite, that distress amongst those troubled debtors was leading them to spend a larger percentage of income. The third explanation was that strategic defaults were giving a lot of people money in their pockets that would have otherwise gone to servicing debt and this had increased consumption.
The people out there who read it, and who actually pay their mortgage every month, get mad. Then they start wondering why one political party messed around with a health care bill that the public didn’t want while the financial situation got worse – and why politicians are bailing out cynical consumers who decide to play the ‘strategic default’ game. And then they get madder when other (typically urban-elitist) cynics tell them to suck it up, because it’s completely unreasonable to expect people to honor an inconvenient contract. Only unsophisticated rubes actually care about something as un-hip as respect for contractual obligations.
It’s that last attitude that really motivates people to go out and vote, by the way.
Moe Lane (more…)
Paint It, Black
Umm… what is this song about, again? And why the comma? Is this another iteration of the ‘Stuff done under the influence of marijuana is somehow more meaningful’ meme that infected the Sixties?
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no – OK, look, let’s be brutally honest: it wasn’t that great a flick. Comes right down to it, Stanley Kubrick made a bunch of films that aren’t aging all that well. Dr. Strangelove
[UPDATE]: Welcome, Hot Air readers.
Having reviewed the completely voluntary decision of the White House to freak out over Ben Domenech’s mention in passing of now-probable USSC nominee Elena Kagan’s rumored sexuality – and before anybody freaks out in their turn, note this passage, please:
…as the reaction from Julian Sanchez and Matt Yglesias shows, I was not alone in that apparently inaccurate belief.
…one wonders what all the fuss was about. After all, Ben, Sanchez, Yglesias, Glenn freaking Greenwald – and for that matter, myself - are all more or less in agreement that a strong reaction to this is at least a bit odd. In a world where Senators Cornyn & Sessions can both readily and for the record state that sexual orientation is not a barrier for a Supreme Court spot, why would the White House jump on this issue with both feet? And why did they, by the way, do so in a manner that explicitly and authoritatively denies that Ms. Kagan is gay? It’s a mystery… (more…)
I just finished reading Bitter Seeds
…and, unfortunately (from the point of view of the characters):
As the above list suggests, it’s sort of Mythos-like, but in sentiment rather than language; there’s a growing bleakness that will no doubt be reflected in the next book in the series. Check it out, but be prepared to find it a slight downer.
Moe Lane (more…)
Charlie don’t march*.
Told ya so. Michelle Malkin has some photos of the fizzle, which should have been obvious to anybody who has been paying attention to the way that the luster of the Left’s vaunted ‘activism’ completely dims when compared to an actual populist movement**. How bad was this fizzle, in fact?
This bad:
Brooks Alexander, a 23-year-old Olney, Md., hotel worker and Obama supporter who wore an Obama t-shirt to the evening rally, said infiltrators were being disrespectful.
“They’re doing a disservice not only to themselves, but to the people who are here trying to express their views,” said Alexander, who is African American and said he traveled to the rally to verify for himself liberal accounts blasting the tea party as racist.
“All my friends told me I was crazy to come down here in an Obama shirt,” he said. “Obviously I have political disagreements [with the tea party], but I cannot lie. I cannot say that people have been anything but nice to me. They have been shaking my hand. One guy told me I had a lot of [guts] for coming down here. I will definitely walk away from this with a new understanding of the tea party.”
Jim Geraghty apparently thinks so, based on that Q-poll that currently has him barely winning a three-way race and the news that former Senator Connie Mack has quit the Crist campaign after the governor vetoed the education reform bill. And I will admit that yes, Governor Crist could run as an independent. Governor Crist could also repeatedly slam a silverware drawer on his hand until he passes out from the pain; which would be the rough equivalent in terms of results. I’m sure that people are telling him about Lieberman and Specter; but Lieberman didn’t preemptively reject his party prior to the primary (or at all, really), and the real race in PA is over which party gets to make sure that Arlen Specter returns to private life.
Granted, Crist could still do it. Hope springs eternal, right?
Moe Lane
PS: Rubio for Senate.
At least, that’s the only rational explanation that I can come up with for them writing this:
To turn a corner, Democrats need to start embracing an agenda that speaks to the broad concerns of the American electorate. It should be somewhat familiar: It is the agenda that is driving the Tea Party movement and one that has the capacity to motivate a broadly based segment of the electorate.
[snip]
Winning over swing voters will require a bold, new focus from the president and his party. They must adopt an agenda aimed at reducing the debt, with an emphasis on tax cuts, while implementing carefully crafted initiatives to stimulate and encourage job creation.
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