I’ve been super-busy, so it’s been a long time since I’ve posted. A few thoughts:
- “Obama’s got a problem, in that America seems to think he’s Muslim,” say the people who keep accusing him of being Muslim.
- It’s an absolute travesty that we’re allowing a mosque to be built on the hallowed ground of the old Burlington Coat Factory that’s around the corner from the New York Dolls Gentleman’s Club.
- Saying that the Tea Party has racist undertones isn’t the same thing as accusing individual Tea Partiers of being racist. It is, and yet many of them are not.
- Glenn Beck has misled more Americans about what our history is than anyone in my lifetime. It mystifies me why we don’t give air time to actual historians, 99.5% of whom would quickly dispatch his nonsense.
- Sarah Palin gets a positive rating from 3/4 of Republicans. Good. If she runs, I get non-stop comedy.
- I wonder who we should listen to on the economy: (a) Complete novice Tea Partiers; (b) Politicians whose policies have already been thoroughly discredited; or (c) Economists? Hmmm…
- The next time Newt Gingrich tries to tell me what is moral and what is not, my left eye is going to spontaneously pop out of its socket.
- The last time Republicans were blowing a gasket over proposed taxes, they were telling us that having 36% and 39% tax brackets would be “disastrous for the economy, ” that it was “a jobs killer,” that it would “do nothing to shrink the deficit,” and that it “would bring on a recession that (we) can lay at the door of the Democrats.” That was early in the Clinton presidency, which kicked off a long economic boom and brought us a budget surplus.
- The cabbie in the New York stabbing was the victim of a racist, Anti-Muslim assault. And the media should stop ducking responsibility for that, and start being mortified.
- Democrats will lose seats this election. Do we deserve it? Yes, for having such a muddled, crappy message, and for lacking courage when it mattered.
- Glenn Beck is all over President Obama for saying in his inaguration speech that “we are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers.” Because…we’re not? Where does that guy live? On a heavily armed compound in the Dakotas? (Shoot, my company has Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and non-believers — and we have less than 100 people.)
- John Stewart essentially unzipped Fox News from private parts all the way to sternum over Fox’s indignation over the financing of the Park51 mosque. (Hint: the “dangerous” guy with “terrorist ties” who may be funding it — is the second-largest shareholder in NewsCorp, which owns…Fox News!) Hilarious. And true.
- I am totally serious: you do not have the right to believe all of the following things without me thinking that you’re a little unhinged: (a) We are at war with Al-Qaida, but not with Muslims generally; (b) I would not have a problem with a Methodist community center in the same spot; (c) I am not bigoted against Muslims generally; (d) the community center is probably not some kind of sinister Al-Qaida plot; and yet (e) I have a problem with the Park51 project.
- The court was not biased in the gay marriage ruling. The problem for Prop 8 supporters is that their attorneys offered essentially nothing to the judge. The guy almost didn’t have any choice but to rule the way he did. And the result is that appeals are going to be very hard.
There. That’s what I’ve been thinking.
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