The “Tea Baggers” made LEO’s “list of the 50 grandest, most brain-bending and spirit-crushing gaffes, foibles and malicious undertakings” of 2009. LEO is short for Louisville Eccentric Observer, an alternative newsweekly — print and online — in Kentucky’s largest city. “…Folks and organizations qualify for our infamous awards because, generally speaking, they’ve betrayed the public trust,” Leo explains. “Our message is simple: Do better.” LEO doesn’t pull punches. It defines Tea Baggers as “an embodiment of all that is...
Monthly Archives: December 2009
The Courage of Michael Vick
The Philadelphia Eagles honored reserve quarterback and admitted dog-killer Michael Vick with an award for courage. Yes, you read that right. “Michael Vick” and “courage” are in the same sentence. Each of the 32 NFL teams annually honors one of its own with an Ed Block award, named for the Baltimore Colts head trainer who was an advocate for improving the lives of neglected and abused children; the Foundation says it celebrates “players of inspiration in the NFL.” Unfortunately,...
Kerry: Big Step Towards Affordable Accessible Health Care
Senator John Kerry released the following statement today after the Senate’s historic, Christmas Eve passage of comprehensive health care reform: “This is a big step towards finally making affordable accessible health care a reality for every American,” said Sen. Kerry. “It took 60 votes, it took the commitment of a Senate willing to put itself on the line and a White House committed to getting there, but what’s most important is that it happened. One thing I’m confident of, Ted Kennedy...
Ripped from the Headlines: Greed, Corruption, and Racism in NE Pennsylvania
Dick Wolf, who created “Law & Order” and its two successful spin-offs, “Law & Order: SVU” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” should probably consider establishing a branch office in Pennsylvania. It seems that whenever any of the New York City cops take a road trip to find a fugitive or track down a witness, they go to Pennsylvania. Apparently, New Jersey is only a buffer zone. Part of the reason why Pennsylvania routinely figures into the hour-long dramas...
Cato Astroturfs the World to Deny AGW
It really doesn't get any better than this: Cato Board Member's (Howie Rich) astroturf group (ALG) quotes a Cato "fellow" who, it is NEVER MENTIONED, founded the group ... They run the report through a British paper's Libertarian contrarian and then quote it as "news" analyzed by the Institute's FOUNDER -- a global warming denier from way back...
An Inconvenient Poof
This new "Russian" revelation is a Libertarian con. The founder and head of the Russian "Think Tank" that released this report is a Cato Institute fellow who was paid $150,000 in 2007, according to Cato's IRS 990 filing.
Scared turtles
It is the great unmentionable in the health care debate. It is an attitude apparently shared by many voters. The Democrats keep quiet about it because they don’t want to make voters mad. The same attitude is helping the Republicans thwart reform. But they won’t acknowledge it publicly for fear of looking bad. B. Smith isn’t scared to talk about it on his Internet blogsite, Radical Love. It is greed and selfishness, which he says are “hateful” aspects “of humanity that this debate has brought out” in much...
The No-News, No-Column Column
I don’t have a column this week. You see, I analyze and interpret the news, trying to find something that others haven’t touched. When there’s lots of news, I have a playground of riches. But during the past week, there were only two stories, and every reporter, columnist, commentator, pundit, bloviator, and blogger weighed in on it. There was nothing more I could add—from any perspective. There was the Tiger Woods story. It led off the TV newscasts and...
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