Jan
11
2009

URLs du Jour

2009-01-11

  • There's P. J. O'Rourke content at the Weekly Standard. If you haven't clicked over there already, here's a sample:

    Is it too soon to talk about the failed Obama presidency just because Obama isn't president yet? That depends upon how quickly Barack Obama is able to apply the lessons he's learned from Management Secrets of the Illinois Governors. So far he's not doing very well. He has allowed America's current number one jackleg, crackpot, smut-mouth, slime-licking politician to give the Obama Senate seat to a lovable old African-American doofus whom no one has the heart to execrate. Roland Burris will be the kind of ornament to this year's Senate that the broken plastic Rudolph with its antlers missing was to last year's Christmas tree.

    But read the whole thing.

  • In the NYT, genius Harvard econ prof Greg Mankiw offers plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the ability of government to pull the economy out of the doldrums via increased spending. He's also pessimistic that skepticism will prevail in the matter:

    But don't expect such qualms to stop the juggernaut. The prevailing orthodoxy among the nation's elite holds that increased government spending is the right medicine for what ails the economy.

    As I've said before, the stimulus has all the inevitability of a speeding locomotive, headed for a stalled car at a crossing, filled with taxpayers.

  • I got the WALL·E three-disc DVD set for Christmas; consider this an unabashed plug. After watching the movie again, my face hurt from smiling so much.

    There are a lot of extras on the DVDs as well. "Making of" interviews with the filmmakers aren't the same old self-congratulatory crap; they're actually interesting. And there's an 87-minute documentary, The Story of Pixar, on DVD 2; it was made by Leslie Iwerks (granddaughter of the legendary Ub), and it's really good.

  • "Mr. President, it may kill you, but you'll die happy."


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