Archive for the ‘Wayward press’ Category

January 2nd, 2012

Why does Roger Simon think Jon Huntsman is “in the wrong party”?

December 18th, 2011

And Mitt Romney doesn’t have one. The real question is how he gets away with it. The answer seems to be that his campaign knows how to use access to incentivize good coverage.

October 30th, 2011

Last week I polled my mostly-undergraduate policy design class at Berkeley as follows: A. Social Security is in very serious financial trouble and probably won’t be there for my parents B. Social Security is in financial  trouble and probably won’t be there for me C. Social Security is basically OK and just needs some minor [...]

September 5th, 2011

So Mayor Bloomberg let one of his deputies quit “to pursue private-sector interests” when in fact the deputy had to leave because he’d been arrested elsewhere for domestic violence, though the charges were promptly dropped. Good for him! “Transparency” is properly about public issues and actions, not about private lives.

September 1st, 2011

Tim Noah no longer has a job. Andrew Malcolm still does.

August 10th, 2011

joins the big shark jump. But today’s column opens a career escape hatch for him: political enlightenment for youth. In the spirit of this pathbreaking opus, imaginary speeches in the voices of Obama and Boehner, I anticipate the next step: “See the big meeting, Dick! Run, Dick, run, so we can sit in front!” “I [...]

July 16th, 2011

The New York Times lays out the facts about Scotland Yard and the Murdoch empire.

July 14th, 2011

Corrupt Murdoch empire: dog bites man.
Corrupt cops: man bites dog.
Heads must roll.

June 14th, 2011

An editor at Bloomberg makes me look even more of a fool than is usually the case.

June 11th, 2011

Rick Perry joins with an open hate group, gets the soft soap from the New York Times.