Author Archives: olneyce

So it looks like Obama is going to pick Judd Gregg (R-NH) to fill the Commerce Secretary position. Part of the arrangement is that Democratic Governor John Lynch will select a Republican to fill that seat. I’ve got a few … Continue reading →

Continuing thoughts on my post from yesterday about engaging adversaries. The liberal blogosphere has of course become enraged at Chait’s suggestion. In some sense, I’d almost say that the visceral backlash (the deliberate misreading of his point, the yelling and … Continue reading →

I Need All the Friends I Can Get – Camera Obscura Jonathan Chait comments: It’s kind of funny how, when it comes to domestic politics, many liberals employ assumptions about human naturethat are wildly at odds with the assumptions they … Continue reading →

Music To My Ears – Champagne Riot Here’s a treat for a Friday evening: a tasty little EP of Danish indie electro-pop. There’s a ton of New Order here, but you get the sense that it’s not an homage to … Continue reading →

I Don’t Need This Pressure Ron – Billy Bragg I’m pretty far left on most issues. I believe in affirmative action. I think the government should actively be in the business of desegregating schools. I think the US should probably … Continue reading →

Zero – Smashing Pumpkins Number of Illinois Senators who voted to let Blagojevich stay in office: zero.Number of Republican members of the House who voted for the stimulus bill: zero. I’m just sayin’ is all.

The Furnace – Meursault I feel like any attempt to describe what Meursault sound like is going to make them sound a lot less interesting than they actually are. Electronic folk? A backyard Arcade Fire? Folk-driven noise rock? It seems … Continue reading →

The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act passes. Surely our economy is now doomed. DOOOOOMED. The vote in the Senate was 61-36. As Kevin Drum notes, all 56 Democrats (seriously, can we get this up to the actual 59 sometime soon?) voted … Continue reading →

The poem. It wasn’t good. It would have been nice if it was good, but it just wasn’t. Or, to be generous, the poem itself might have been okay (if a bit milquetoast) but the delivery was really poor. Listless … Continue reading →

Matt Yglesias is, once again, wrong about Battlestar Galactica. This time, he responds to the paranoid rantings of Dirk Benedict, who played the original Starbuck, by emphasizing precisely the wrong thing. Benedict’s complaint: “Re-imagining”, they call it. “Un-imagining” is more … Continue reading →