And, speaking of morons

Roberta takes some of that class of vertebrates to task, specifically His Obamness with his plans to give us all free high-speed wireless internet. To make it happen,  Washington will need to  enact a new law of physics requiring five-pound pots to contain ten pounds of  (euphemism). Otherwise it will be only sorta free.

If you liked him as Trapper John,

you'll love him as a businessman and occasional commenter on the way in which we permit ourselves to be misgoverned.

...(Wayne) Rogers laments the lack of credit available to small- and medium-sized businesses for which he blames the "infinite stupidity" of policymakers in Washington D.C.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the "morons" in Congress crafted a financial reform bill Rogers says isn't worth the paper it's printed on. He's also extremely critical of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for helping the "too big to fail" banks, which are now bigger than ever and control a greater portion of the nation's assets vs. before the crisis.

Somebody should send him a "Klinger for President" tee shirt. He'd probably wear it.

Weasel words

It usually pretty tough to find something I agree with in the opinion pages of the Boston Globe, but a piece on using language to defeat meaning pushes my like button.

As a matter of respecting widespread sensibilities, it is all well and good to console a tyke who has fallen on his "tail."  And that pretty thing over there is not "tail;" it is a woman. Law Dog has, to our amused profit, spread "wedding tackle" far and wide in libertarian Blogville. There's no particular harm in referring to the dead as those who have "passed away."


"But telling citizens that torture is “abuse” and mercenaries are “contractors” — or in Orwell’s words, that burning and bombing villages is “pacification” — is a different sort of enterprise. These euphemisms — the top-down terminology invented and deployed to serve the interests of the coiners — are the ones that give “euphemism” a bad name."
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Egypt libre!

So the bread riots leave Egypt with no legislative branch, no constitution. We can be pretty sure that , in his heart of hearts, His Obamaness is insanely jealous.