The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach

Month: February 2010

  • Idiot Quote of the Day

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    I don’t usually like to post these, but this one from Mary Matalin just floored me: The majority vote is tyranny of the minority. I agree that context is everything, so please, go ahead and read the whole bit.  (You’ll have to search through the transcript; I’ll wait.)

  • Our Broken Senate

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    Update: Also, news comes that Senator Richard Shelby has placed a blanket hold on Obama administration appointments, apparently as part of a plan to extort pork for his state.  With Scott Brown having been seated, the Is the Senate broken?  Or is the recent fretting over the filibuster just myopic whining that misunderstands our history? …

  • Shouting in the wind

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    I know I’m not going to convince anybody, and this is far from the most important place to make this point, but I feel like I have to weigh in: Record snowfall does not “disprove” global warming. To advance the opposite proposition seriously, you’d have to do one or more of the following: Fail to…

  • Our (Even More) Broken Senate

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    News comes that Senator Richard Shelby has placed a blanket hold on Obama administration appointments, apparently as part of a plan to extort pork for his state.  With Scott Brown having been seated, the chance of cloture on these holds seems remote.  So the Senate is even more broken.  The danger is that this will…

  • A well-deserved smack-down on trials of terrorists

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    Adam Serwer at TAPPED has a nice response to Richard Cohen’s latest hyperventilating bed-wetting over the upcoming trial of several terrorists.  I’m disappointed that NYC has successfully lobbied to have the trials held elsewhere, though I’m glad that the main reason seems to be that the extra security would be overly disruptive to city life…