Just as Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” is pretty much the only reliable news source on American broadcast television, so it seems, it only has one reliable counterpart in the American print media, and “America’s Finest News Source” tells it like it is again, with this article, in which Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke finally lets us in on the dirty little secret of our culture: money is just a product of collective psychosis– an illusion. The fact is, gold bugs… try eating your gold when you get really hungry. It’s not just money (and precious metals) we’re deluded about– much of...

Former federal judge, solicitor general, law school dean and Clinton partisan hack tormentor “indepedent counsel” Kenneth Starr will assume the presidency of Baylor University, a Baptist university based in Waco, Texas. My immediate reaction was “how wonderfully convenient to the George W. Bush Presidential Library”… but a moment’s thought and I realized that’s Baylor’s athletic rival, SMU, over in Fort Worth. Starr had been dean at Pepperdine Univ.’s law school in Malibu, CA; to give up that there must be some bucks involved… but I have no doubt that the money’s good. For the Ken Starrs of the world… the...

Obviously, innocent people suffer and die in war (by the hundreds, thousands or millions… as Stalin said, one death is a tragedy and a million is a statistic and all…) In that sense, an “errant missile,” which has killed at least ten INNOCENT AFGHAN CIVILIANS, and let’s not even mitigate or that or sugarcoat for one second… that our military has INADVERTENTLY MASSACRED AT LEAST TEN PEOPLE who were no threat to it, or our nation, or anyone else… in the course of an offensive during which, PERHAPS, SOME TALIBAN MIGHT be picked off too… just shouldn’t be that big...

A nation that has already gone ahead and sacrificed its soul out of a chicken-shit fear that men it has (not always, but almost always wrongfully, btw) held without charge or trial for over eight years and counting “might some day somehow do something bad”… apparently isn’t very good at judging bad things done by actual bad people here… certainly when said people are white, well-educated and well-connected… Surprise, surprise, that Dr. Amy Bishop, the (accused) homicidal maniac who massacred the committee that denied her tenure at the University of Alabama Huntsville killing three and wounding three others, had previously.....

One wishes simply that I could say something about the Obama Administration other than “I’m disappointed, but not surprised.” And thus, the apparent decision to scrap civilian federal court trials of 9-11 plot suspects in New York, and quite possibly, relegate the trials of Ron Jeremy Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four others to military commissions altogether. The apparent political subtext seems to involve hanging Attorney General Eric Holder out to dry, by blaming him for the White House’s decision to use the federal courts for its show trials in the first place, and of course, to propose the show trials...

Sarah Palin, proudly addressing her peeps (Southern White men) at the “tea party convention” suggests she would certainly consider running for President in 2012. The obvious question becomes just how much the Obama people would be paying her to do so, as she already bears her share of responsibility for the fact that he’s the President now, and let’s face it: Tina Fey isn’t going anywhere. That said, of course, note that as far as media accounts go, and this, of course, includes “even the liberal New York Times,” the only relevant places on the political spectrum are “right-wing” and...

For those wondering, “Hey TD… why the radio silence?” The short answer is that my lengthy run of luck that unsupported Movable Type 2.64 would remain viable for the rest of my time on God’s green Earth (or at least God’s green Blogosphere) came to an end, with an “upgrade” to the servers on my (now former) host company. Thanks to the magic of my friends at Blog Consulting, we’re back on Movable Type Pro… which, hopefully, will now keep up with our new and improved server. Obviously, for those who missed my commentary on the state of the union,...

You don’t need me to tell you that life isn’t fair. But some things just… well… “Unfair” doesn’t do justice to… a magintude 7.0 earthquake hitting Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere… seems a bitter pill, indeed. You might try contributing to the Red Cross, or UNICEF, or Doctors Without Borders, or the reputable charity of your choice. Let’s do what we can. And, in further proof that life isn’t fair, 104 year old strongman Joe Rollino was struck and killed by a car here in Brooklyn. One of the most popular Coney Island strong men, he was...

This absurdly cold Saturday (it started around 20 F here in NYC, but with 25-35 mph winds swirling…felt colder), we treat you to two items that, if you think that having a Bill of Rights is “a good thing,” might just may make your blood run colder still. The first (h/t Candace) concerns a sudden “controversy” over what heretofore hadn’t been particularly “controversial,” that being, the seemingly routine release of two Guantanamo detainees who have been determined to have done nothing wrong (and hence, have been wrongly held for eight years), said release now being “controversial” for no reason other...

We are rapidly coming up to January 22, 2010, the day that President Barack Obama will have unquestionably broken a promise that, at the time he made it anyway, was 100% within his power to keep, that being to “close Guantanamo within one year.” The thing with the Guantanamo promise, aside from candidate Obama’s stand on the issue having been a selling point for many rubes and suckers (such as myself) to support his candidacy, is that it was an actual concrete promise on which we can clearly measure accountability, rather than the nebulous (and ultimately meaningless) “hope and change”...