I've developed the obnoxious habit of checking into MSNBC on my electrical tellie in the morning. To say that Joe and Mika run the best of the bleary-eyed wakeups is to damn with faint praise. And maybe I like having my intelligence insulted.
Such as with the large-print banner on this morning's discussion of congresscritters wandering in to their offices determined to increase their net worth before lunch through bold stock-market investments.
The banner asks, "Do Lawmakers Benefit from Insider Trading?"
Here comes the adult language.
"Does a bear shit in the woods?"
This hasn't been news since at least the Lincoln Administration.
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The solution is a Constitutional amendment requiring Congress to obey the Constitution by not chartering railroads or financing silly solar-power adventures, etc.
If you snort something back at me about circular reasoning, you are a clear-eyed, intelligent citizen of the Republic, and I love you.
Nov 17, 2011
Nov 16, 2011
OMG, another campus gun
Another hideous possibility is averted due to the diligence of campus-town cops.
Vigilent Greenville police saw a suspicious character with an assault rifle on their Big Brother screens, and the campus was locked down as...
"Heavily armed officers from at least four law enforcement agencies responded in force, sweeping campus buildings, searching buses and briefly surrounding a nearby house. A Highway Patrol helicopter hovered overhead."
The official ninjas handled the guy packing an umbrella without serious difficulty.
Welcome to the New America. E Pluribus EEEEK!
Welcome to the New America. E Pluribus EEEEK!
Blogging ain't hard
All you really have to do is read the newspaper and pass on the giggles. . The Register decided to see why the U of Ioway laid itself open to another round of ridicule with that silly emergency alert about a man with a gun. (It turns out that there was no gun, no demonstrable threat, and not even a suspect.)
"U of I police director Chuck Green did not return a message seeking comment. Associate director Dave Visin referred questions to fellow associate director Lucy Wiederholt, who did not return a message seeking comment.
"University President Sally Mason’s office referred questions to spokesman Tom Moore and said interviews with Mason must be scheduled in advance. Mason was out of the office Tuesday."
That's an awful lot of fancy footwork coming from a place that calls itself a community of scholars who think at the cutting edge of the most adanced frontiers of human intelligence.
Funny one of the high-level cogitaters didn't say, "Aww, why the Hell don't we just admit we panicked like a freshman who missed her period?"
"U of I police director Chuck Green did not return a message seeking comment. Associate director Dave Visin referred questions to fellow associate director Lucy Wiederholt, who did not return a message seeking comment.
"University President Sally Mason’s office referred questions to spokesman Tom Moore and said interviews with Mason must be scheduled in advance. Mason was out of the office Tuesday."
That's an awful lot of fancy footwork coming from a place that calls itself a community of scholars who think at the cutting edge of the most adanced frontiers of human intelligence.
Funny one of the high-level cogitaters didn't say, "Aww, why the Hell don't we just admit we panicked like a freshman who missed her period?"
The Wednesday morning authoritarian
I'm breaking libertarian principles here by saying you did wrong this morning if you watched MSNBC instead of CNBC. You must mount your De Lorean and return in order to rectify your lives.
The Morning Joe gang was stunned by yesterday's poll reporting the four-way dead heat in the Iowa caucus race. So they naturally brought in Chris Mathews to help them regain their composure. He led them through a therapeutic session based on the novel ideas that (1) Republicans don't much like Romney (2) Gingrich has a lot of personal baggage and (3) potential voters can be a pretty flighty bunch early in the election cycle. Thanks, Chris. We didn't know.
Just when I thought it was over, Mika -- of all people -- said some viewers might think their reporting was merely blasting Republicans rather than addressing what is "good for the country." Heads nodded and we got a nice little coda emphasizing that the good of the country requires policies sort of splitting the difference between Obama and Romney. Good idea -- averaging out pi and 3.15.
Need I mention that the name of Ron Paul, second in the poll, went unmentioned?
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Clicking my magic wormhole over to CNBC, I found the the financial talkies letting Darell Issa speak his piece -- giving him time to complete his sentences and even short paragraphs.
I discovered myself almost admiring a misdemeanant (at least) and Patriot Act backer who, here in 2011, is capable of talking about the right things, structuring government for efficiency and a good chance of freeing people to succeed or fail on their own merits. I suppose a lot of the Left will call him a sorehead for mentioning Solyndra.
(I totally forgot to check Fox News for thigh reveals. Must be getting old.)
The Morning Joe gang was stunned by yesterday's poll reporting the four-way dead heat in the Iowa caucus race. So they naturally brought in Chris Mathews to help them regain their composure. He led them through a therapeutic session based on the novel ideas that (1) Republicans don't much like Romney (2) Gingrich has a lot of personal baggage and (3) potential voters can be a pretty flighty bunch early in the election cycle. Thanks, Chris. We didn't know.
Just when I thought it was over, Mika -- of all people -- said some viewers might think their reporting was merely blasting Republicans rather than addressing what is "good for the country." Heads nodded and we got a nice little coda emphasizing that the good of the country requires policies sort of splitting the difference between Obama and Romney. Good idea -- averaging out pi and 3.15.
Need I mention that the name of Ron Paul, second in the poll, went unmentioned?
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Clicking my magic wormhole over to CNBC, I found the the financial talkies letting Darell Issa speak his piece -- giving him time to complete his sentences and even short paragraphs.
I discovered myself almost admiring a misdemeanant (at least) and Patriot Act backer who, here in 2011, is capable of talking about the right things, structuring government for efficiency and a good chance of freeing people to succeed or fail on their own merits. I suppose a lot of the Left will call him a sorehead for mentioning Solyndra.
(I totally forgot to check Fox News for thigh reveals. Must be getting old.)
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