Behind the Times.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been tied to the whipping post, and oh Lord I feel like I’m dying. Here’s another daft NY Times reporter who thinks that the entire history of the world began on the day she graduated J-school. Countering criticism of another Jewish building project planned for Sheik Jarrah, Israel’s prime minister, [...]

Represent.

From the “if we don’t want it, what are our elected officials doing pushing for it” file, comes this latest Rasmussen report: The health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% of U.S. voters are at least [...]

“Hurray! I’m for the other team!”

The NY Times doing its’ usual cheerleading: WASHINGTON — Badly outnumbered and months behind in the debate on energy and climate change, House Republicans plan to introduce an energy bill on Wednesday as an alternative to the Democratic plan barreling toward a House vote this month. How’s that for a lede? The Republicans have a [...]

No, I don’t know how to pronounce it.

Douthat, that is. Ross Douthat. Word is that he’s the new Conservative voice at the NY Times. I’m not all that familiar with him, though I have read clips of him here and there in other blogs. Here’s his current gig, which you may want to check out. Not sure it’ll make me buy the NY [...]

Everybody do the dinosaur.

Not that its anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but we thought it was worth pointing out that it costs the Times about twice as much money to print and deliver the newspaper over a year as it would cost to send each of its subscribers a brand new Amazon Kindle [...]

Good rule of thumb–If Maureen Dowd hates you, you’re probably a little slice of alright.

So now we have an N.R.A. handmaiden in Bobby Kennedy’s old seat? Kirsten Gillibrand, a k a Tracy Flick, accepting the honor with her Republican pal Al D’Amato beside her on stage? Gross. via Maureen Dowd – Which Governor Is Wackier? – NYTimes.com. Why does Dowd hate Gillibrand? Then the Democrats would have had another [...]

Conspicuous Consumption.

Barack Obama’s inauguration set to be the most expensive in US history | World news | guardian.co.uk. President Barack Obama‘s inauguration next week is set to be the most expensive ever, predicted to reach over $150m (£102m). This dwarfs the $42.3m spent on George Bush’s inauguration in 2005 and the $33m spent on Bill Clinton’s [...]

Do you hear what I hear?

WASHINGTON — A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order, even when Americans’ private communications may be involved, according to a person with knowledge of the [...]

NY Times’ end in sight?

End Times – The Atlantic (January/February 2009). Earnings reports released by the New York Times Company in October indicate that drastic measures will have to be taken over the next five months or the paper will default on some $400million in debt. With more than $1billion in debt already on the books, only $46million in [...]