Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
Why I Love George W. Bush!
This is why I love George W. Bush! He’s my favorite! Who would pose with this Easter Rabbit?! For reals! 
Jenna Bush is Fierce
Jenna Bush read to some hormonally challenged adults on Easter. She began to emulate our favorite girl Victoria Beckham – not that other fierce girl, Christian Soriano. She’s not fierce at all. She’s as fierce as an onion bagel with cream cheese.
Additional Reading: Wonkette
TV Interviews before self conciousness
A more human method of communication that allows for smoking, lack of eye contact and casual mannerisms while treading deep waters:
from Edge of the American West
More on James Baldwin
Vagina Sushi
Some people think blogging with 10 dollar words makes it ok:
Think word sushi: delicately-prepared high-quality content that’s easy to consume.
When I think of sushi, I don’t think of fancy phrases -I think of Kate Beckinsale:
You told an interviewer you’d rather eat a vagina than sushi. When stuff you say makes headlines, what’s the reaction of your publicity team? I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything. At least a vagina would be warm. [laughs] My publicist has literally turned a funny color and is going to go have a lie-down. He’s throwing up now, as well. I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what’s on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, “What’s the matter with you?” But I haven’t ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don’t really worry about it.
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Vaginal Aesthetics Do Matter
After the recent upheaval in the prostitution industry that the Eliot Spitzer scandal has caused there has been more of a focus on what you get for your money.
I found this article in New York magazine very enlightening. So, I guess when you pay $2,000 an hour for a hooker, one expects a vagina that will shoot rainbows and possibly sing your favorite tune from the musical Chicago.
Victoria and I, we did a lot of doubles. You do a double, sometimes guys want to, you know, watch. As soon as I saw her coochie, I told Jason, this is special.
Additional Reading: Kate Beckinsale Loves Her Lady Parts, That’s Because They Haven’t Seen MY Vag, The Politics of (Vagina) Style
Ben Bernanke Retrospective
Now that Ben Bernanke is getting some tentative plaudits for his rate cuts and Bear Stearns bailout, is this different than what was expected? A look back at the time of his nomination:
Marginal Revolution on BB’s academic history from late 2005:
The credit channel for monetary policy; here are the papers, most of all the 1992 piece with Alan Blinder. Bernanke took an old Keynesian idea and gave it empirical rigor. During upturns and downturns, does money or credit play the leading role? Bernanke showed that credit has greater importance. Bernanke’s work in particular helped combat the Litterman and Weiss paper of 1983; L&W had showed that once you put the nominal interest rate in a Vector Autoregression (a relatively atheoretical statistic technique), money didn’t seem to matter. Bernanke rescued the relevance of money but showed it mattered through the associated channel of credit. This work stands among the most important contributions in macroeconomics in the last twenty years. It also suggests that Bernanke, as Fed chair, will look closely at credit indicators. Here is a Bernanke speech on money and the stock market.
Daniel Drezner linked to a number of comments
Brad Delong, note the housing bubble mentions in the comments
Economist’s View has links to most other 2005 reviews
New Economist confirmed the glowing predictions
Bernanke predicts house bubble could cool in Washington Post, but to be fair:
That view mirrors Greenspan’s .He and Bernanke have both said it is unrealistic to expect the Fed to identify a bubble in stock or real estate prices as it is inflating, or to be able to pop it without hurting the economy. Instead, the Fed should stand ready to mop up the economic aftermath of a bubble.
Iraq’s Insurgency Runs on Stolen Oil Profits – New York Times
Iraq’s Insurgency Runs on Stolen Oil Profits – New York Times
He said most fighters were seduced not by dreams of a life following Mr. bin Laden, but by a simpler pitch: “Here’s $100; go plant this I.E.D.”“Ninety percent of the guys out here who do attacks are just people who want to feed their families,” Major Kendrick said.
The First Brigade’s commander, Col. Scott McBride, concurs. “I don’t know that I’ve ever heard one person say, ‘I believe in a caliphate,’ ” he said.
Major Obvious checks in
Elliot Spitzer article from December 2007
From The New Yorker:
And I’m learning that. I’m learning that.” Spitzer had taken to likening the job of governor to “three-dimensional chess.”
via Emdashes; an article demonstrating that E.S. watched ST:TNG; had interesting thoughts on immigration; and was the politician to watch despite his predilection for dangerous trysts with expensive prostitutes.
Etymology and definition are kissing cousins
John McCain’s speech writers interweave self-defeating rhetorical reference
George Bush Has Done More to Combat Global Warming than Al Gore
From the nytimes:
When it comes to specific steps to foster conservation or produce more energy, the public is deeply torn, the poll found. Respondents said they would support higher gasoline prices to reduce dependence on foreign oil but would oppose higher prices to combat global warming.
