The Plum Line has the video, Watch Lieberman Endorse Medicare Buy-In Three Months Ago. Now he says that the inclusion of the very proposal he formerly claimed to support is why Lieberman opposes the health care bill.
It seems increasingly the case that the core of Lieberman's ever-shifting objections to health care reform is summed up in this classic song:
It would be nice if our Senate could transcend the Marx Brothers. I am not feeling hopeful about that right now.
According to 8,702 news articles from literally around the world, Accenture is dropping Tiger Woods, but Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer stands by Tiger Woods, ‘the best in his domain’.
While it’s not difficult to understand why Accenture might want to drop an alleged serial philanderer with a taste for floozies, I wonder if doing so won’t undermine the exact message they were trying to send with their Tiger Woods campaign:
Someone flunked a test?
(No points for speculating why a maker of luxury watches might not mind being associated with a notoriously successful philanderer.)
Seen on a maling list of folks I mostly knew in college:
It's 7 pm in uganda and raining cats and baboons. We've been on the road, if u can call it that, for about 5 hours, with no end in sight. Sent from my blackberry…
If you ask me the “Sent from my blackberry…” line (added automatically I'd imagine), sort of undermines what precedes it.
Meanwhile, here it's not yet 9am and it's already 78 (26 C) and muggy here. But no baboons.
Here's a public service announcement: Don't get too excited about Jim Lindgren's post that Some of the “Homogenized” Temperature Data is False (which relies on Willis Eschenbach's The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero) until you have digested the debunking at Economist.com, Scepticism's limits.
Brad DeLong has renamed his blog to J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with a Prehensile Tail. (It used to be “J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with Both Hands.”) I am not making this up. I have known Brad since grade school and I can testify that if he has a prehensile tail, it is either a recent growth or he hid it very well.
Incidentally, the page I linked to above includes the following line, which I quote out of context since it is funnier that way:
But when I look at Senators Conrad and Gregg, I don't recognize fellow members of my species.
Perhaps they lack a tail?
Editor & Publisher distinguished itself during the Bush regime for its skeptical coverage of the war and more. And now E&P is going to be closed at the end of the month, after 108 of continuous publication.
The new owners of E&P's parent, Nielsen Business Media, made the (to me) surprising decision to close it down — didn't even try to sell it or keep it alive online. How unsurprising, therefore, to learn that one part of the consortium that bought E&P's parent is the Carlyle Group.
Carlyle, like Haliburton and Brown & Root (now merged?), is a key part of the GOP power and influence (and state-sponsored profit) sector.
I'm not saying this is why Carlye will have bought NBM, but I doubt they shed a tear or lifted a finger to save E&P in any form.
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