Yep, for the first time in a couple of years, I’m able to read his stuff right off the NY Times web site, so I give you Sad Alan’s Lament, in which Paul “When does this man get his much deserved Nobel Prize” Krugman completely owns Alan “Bubbles” Greenspan.
Category: Good Writing
A Great Post on the Healthcare Crisis
Read the full article. It’s about the colmnist listening to Sandra Day O’Connor’s concerns about her son and grandson, who is uninsurable.
As I listened, a light dawned: O’Connor and the rest of us with health coverage are also uninsured. We too face terrible, albeit more remote, healthcare risks — the risk that our employer will drop our plan, that Medicare will go bust, that our plan won’t cover our needs, that premiums will eat us alive, that our doctor will stop taking our insurance, that long-term care will wipe us out, and that our uninsured friends and family members will need major financial help.
Hat tip to the Mahablog
Still More Guys Who Write Better than I Ever Will
In this case, Duncan “Atrios” Black on the fact that Max Boot is on the Council on Foreign Relations.
What do I have to do to become a CFR fellow? Advocate invading Switzerland with our army of zombie monkeys?
FWIW, I support this plan.
We must protect our strategic chocolate supplies.
Yes, It’s a Cheap Pun, but that’s a Weakeness of Mine
Well, it appears that the corrosive properties of pigeon excrement may have contributed to the Minneapolis bridge collapse.
To quote noted Internet wit Bladesmith, “Like I said elsewhere, it’s all fun and games till the shit hits the span”.
Sigh, someone else who writes better than I do.
Another Guy Who Writes Better Than I Ever Will
It appears that Paperwhite is one such individual.A he said / he said misunderstanding? Seriously, that’s what Larry Craig (R-My Own Private Idaho) is saying?
LOL!!!! I wish I had thought of “My Own Private Idaho“.
Look, closeted gay self-hating Republicans, wouldn’t it just be easier if you could just lay it all out there, something like this:
I’m a rich white guy who has nothing but contempt for poor people, worships Mammon, knows that the babymaking apparatus means that women aren’t really full persons, and thinks that blowing shit up is the extent of foreign policy, so vote for me! Oh, and I’m really into other guys. Yes, in that way.
Word up. This guy can write.
A Great Commentary in the LA Times
The last line says it all, Looking back over a quarter of a century of chronicling current affairs, I cannot recall a more comprehensive and avoidable man-made disaster.Go and read it
What Charlie Said
In this case, Charles Pierce, in a letter to Eric Alterman.
Damn, that dude can write.
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I don’t know if it counts if you only said it in a bar and never wrote it down anywhere, but back in 1988, when it became plain that absolutely nobody was going to pay a price — criminal, civil, or in the case of the senior Bush, political — for the staggering mess that was Iran-Contra, I was in the late, lamented Eliot Lounge in Boston, chewing it over with a friend who’d reported extensively on the scandal. I told him that the country was going to pay a fearsome price one day for having let these crimes go unpunished. That the whole business lodged something malignant deep in the government that needed to be roughly, and bloodily, excised.
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