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That’s it for today, folks. As always, thanks for reading and commenting. Here are some links from around the web:
1. So that’s why DC escalators are always so crappy. Sigh…
2. RIP R. Peter Straus, a radio pioneer and father of our world-class publisher Diane Straus Tucker. Send some positive karmic vibrations her way.
3. Is Dick Morris the world’s worst pundit? Some stiff competition for that particular honor.
4. Romney Anti-Tax-Wonk Jihad Continues, by Jon Chait.
5. Good Wired profile of the guy behind Kaspersky Labs.
6. Apparently there is a ballot initiative in Oregon claiming that marijuana prohibition violates the Bible and religious freedom. There’s some theology I could get behind.
7. Minjae Park reports that some schools are freezing their tuition.
Anything else I missed?
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T2 on August 09, 2012 7:23 PM:
Dick Morris is not a pundit - he is a Republican lobbyist.
researcher on August 09, 2012 8:10 PM:
Morris is a reliable right winger, with hugely smarmy undertones and a horrid reputation.
That he would turn on Bill Clinton as he did and run to the other ridge was bizarre as well.
Feckless, unfaithful, prone to obligedly smear, stain, slur and blemish people, with digs, affronts and insults.
If you looked up the word unctuous in the dictionary, Dick Morris' picture would be there.
He glosses over facts to please the host. It is beyond sleezy.
He has this slumping posture as he sits there like a boastful expert, reliably disparaging or even malicious for the right wing echo chamber's common ugly tasks.
me again on August 09, 2012 8:37 PM:
The republican presidential candidate's lack of specifics is annoyingly annoying. It is getting old.
Then he has this insincere, contrived way about himself. He acts like an Eddie Haskell, full of obvious deceit and fake relations.
I cannot imagine him with heads of state, the way he presented himself in England.
That secretive persona reminds me of Richard Nixon all over again.
Not to mention that he's adopted the war mongerers of the Cheney/Bush administration as inspiration for foreign policy.
As for domestic programs, be afraid, be very afraid.
Imagine safety nets for the poor, medicare for elders, social security for retirees all gutted; medicaid for the disadvantaged totally wiped away-- non-existent, as he breaks open hornets nests throughout the world, spending our tax dollars on wars, while still hiding his income and immense savings overseas--and scolding us to pull ourselves up by our boot straps and expect nothing from government.
cwolf on August 10, 2012 3:04 AM:
If you do nothing else for the rest of your life,
You must see Steven Colbert's bit on Rep Steve King, (R-Rubber Room). (from Thurs 8/9)
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