Got some snow…
by Pete on December 31, 2007
It snowed overnight, and I’m playing around with Flickr. Sorry about the low image quality, but this was taken with my phone. I’m pretty sure it’s more megapixels than the first (and only) digital camera I bought, but I still (…)
Huckabee’s FairTax nonsense
by Pete on December 30, 2007
It was nice to read the Washington Post exposing the “FairTax” scheme that Mike Huckabee has latched onto for the utter load of crap that it is: There’s one problem: A national sales tax won’t work, at least not according (…)
More on Clinton
by Pete on December 30, 2007
Tim F. over at Balloon Juice follows up on Kevin Drum’s post about conservatives’ fallacious assessment of Hillary Clinton’s appeal: It’s not that online liberals aren’t angry. Believe me, we are. Imagine that you care about the country like you (…)
Hillary Clinton in Republican Bizarro-world
by Pete on December 30, 2007
I have largely avoided discussion of the presidential primaries, largely because the race has started way too early, it’s far to close to call (at least on the Democratic side), and the coverage has, by and large, been utterly inane. (…)
Maybe they should prohibit humans on planes
by Pete on December 30, 2007
Patrick Smith, a commercial airline pilot and regular contributor to the NYT’s Jet Lagged blog, just put up an excellent post about the TSA’s ridiculous security airport security measures: In years past, a takeover meant hostage negotiations and standoffs; crews (…)
That pesky Constitution…
by Pete on December 29, 2007
From this morning’s New York Times: CRAWFORD, Tex. — For months President Bush harangued Democrats in Congress for not moving quickly enough to support the troops and for bogging down military bills with unrelated issues. And then on Friday, with (…)
Most Overrated Albums of 2007
by Pete on December 28, 2007
As usual, there was a lot of good music that came out over the past year, and there was a fair amount of crap. This being the season of year-end “Best of” lists, it’s time to peruse the various entries (…)
You get what you pay for
by Pete on December 27, 2007
Ars Technica provided a pretty good summary yesterday about the tempest in a teapot that has blown up over recent changes to Google Reader: The controversy started back on December 14, when the official Google Reader blog posted the news. (…)
Because 20% annual growth in handbag sales is totally sustainable…
by Pete on December 27, 2007
An article in this morning’s New York Times describes the drop in holiday business for retailers such as Target, Starbucks, and Coach, stores once thought to be relatively impervious to receding economic tides. These stores, which have been relied upon (…)
ATTACK, my Paul-bots!
by Pete on December 24, 2007
Again with The American Prospect… I mean to mention this when I first saw it, but Dana Goldstein put up a post on the Prospect’s blog a few days ago wherein she laid into Ron Paul for his record on (…)