From Sullivan:
The Sane Right
Just a word to say that David Brooks' column is simply superb and to emphasize that both David Frum and Ramesh Ponnuru have made important points about why Romney is disgusting and wrong, respectively. Andrew Sprung has more. It gives me more hope that Romney's embrace of the base right of the GOP, if it leads to a big loss, may finally force the party to return to sanity.
All those linked articles are interesting. (I think the Brooks piece was linked to earlier?) I'm all in favor of the right-wing being sane.
Oh! And, literal bootstraps: [link]
I did love Julián Castro's line about that.
David Brooks makes some good points, but then makes sure to say that we should be cutting disability and unemployment benefits, and Mitt is just a genuinely nice guy who says stupid stuff sometimes.
Owen had a field trip today that I could not go to because I had to take the van in for repairs. I came home from the mechanic's and found Owen's lunch on the table. *FAIL*
I called the school and they had the cafeteria pack him a lunch before they left so he did eat.
Does the guilt ever go away?
Yay, Lee! Great news.
I love all of you and your spicy brains and your big hearts.
Every time I think about the dog thing, I think we are the dog in that situation, and I don't want a president who is going to tie me to the roof of the car while I shit myself in terror.
Exactly. I have been continuously horrified by the callousness and Olympic gold-level clueless privilege that man exhibits.
David Brooks makes some good points, but then makes sure to say that we should be cutting disability and unemployment benefits,
I don't see where he says that. I see he says that those programs can
cultivate patterns of dependency in some people
While framed from a negative perspective, he's not actually flat out calling for cuts. True, he isn't glowingly extolling their virtues, but any condemnation coming from him is pretty mild.
thing is, I am not sure there is a lot of empirical evidence about dependency. not more than say how many of us may be dependent on mortgage interest deductions and dependent on retirement planning including social security.
Chikat beat me to the bootstrap example. Literally pulling yourself up by them is impossible, which was the irony of the phrase when people knew what they were. Nowadays it just seems to imply that you're in the lazy-no good-suspiciously dark-skinned 47% and with
just a little effort
you too could be a job creator.
