A mountain of Cape Cod steamer clams with garlic bread and a couple of beers will be my supper tonite. Any dessert would ruin the experience by erasing that clammy goodness. I always have a cup or two of the broth. Sometimes I eat the necks, sometimes I don't.
Urbanist: New World Economics on the New New Suburbanism
The only known copy of the earliest film made by Alfred Hitchcock has turned up in New Zealand.
Exactly how am I my brother's keeper?
States Start Realizing that the Obama EPA is Threatening Their Economies
JP Morgan: Recession 2012
Weekly Std: Unhealthy Debt - Real health care reform is the only way out of our budget woes. Graph below from that article:
Via the NYT:
These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible. But they didn’t care. Their goal, they believed, was worth blowing up the country for, if that’s what it took.
For now, the Tea Party Republicans can put aside their suicide vests. But rest assured: They’ll have them on again soon enough. After all, they’ve gotten so much encouragement.
"More than anything else, it was Western decadence that brought down the Soviet Union."
Eric Cantor: Obama 'in over his head'
Suddenly, everybody is saying this, as in below:
GOP & Dem Leaders Both Asked President Wonderful to Leave Room… At White House Meeting
Obama: Yaaaay. They raised our credit limit again.
George Will: Republicans have their 2012 theme: “Is this the best we can do?”
IBD: Heading For A Double-Dip Recession?
I hope not, but it feels like it. In fact, feels like the last one never really ended.
Driscoll: ‘Totalitarian Movements Use Democratic Institutions to Destroy Democracy’
From Krauthammer on the O:
He’s out of bullets. He’s out of arrows. He’s looking for stones on the seashore. … There’s nothing left in the cupboard. He did a huge Keynesian gamble, and it failed.
The United States has a jobs problem and there's not a lot President Barack Obama or Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke can do about it.
They did the wrong things, and there's no turning back now. We'll have to wait until January 2013. That's a long wait.
Tea Partiers: Terrorists? Or mentally ill?
