You already saw the first best here. Now William Heasley sends along the second best:
Or his he really cracking up? From my DC-insider friend "Mick Danger":Here’s a graph from EconompicData, based on data from a Forbes feature on income inequality:Which side of the graph needs to be attacked? The side not earning enough? Better opportunities? Lower taxes? More education? All [...]
Reader Bob Ferguson sends this along, with a description from the perpetrator.Good news is that I truly outdid myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my [...]
Check this out, from the January 2010 issue of Vanity Fair:So how do you suppose Vanity Fair detected this outrageous error, having been too ignorant to catch it before publication? It's because I sent the following letter on October 8:To the editor,
In “Wall Street’s Near Death Experience,” [...]
Here’s the report from one perceptive observer looking in from London, courtesy' [...]
We all know now that when Harry met Mary, Louisiana picked up a hot $300 million. (What would a real operator -- [...]
It can be a $3 trillion task because people who [...]
My DC-insider friend "Mick Danger" explores this cross-cultural phenomenon. Why are liberals like vampires?Because they need daily transfusions of someone else’s blood?
Nah, because the whole concept of vampires only makes sense as a work of fiction.
Here’s today’s blood-sucking edition courtesy of the New York Times:
You see, [...]
Here’s a case study.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The [...]
Thanks to William Heasley. [...]
Please click on this link, courtesy of Mark Perry: "Unemployment, The Movie." Once you click play and watch the map [...]
"Could there be a more efficient way to kill our halting recovery'" [...]
According to a recent New York Magazine poll, "health care" is the least-wished-for among all Christmas gifts. Someone should tell Santa Pelosi and her elves at the Left Pole to work on other toys.With health care and Afghanistan dominating the conversation in Washington, many Democrats have [...]
Which is cheap little set up to show you and your readers this little gem produced by John Boehner’s staff way back in August of [...]
“The industry, I think, has a long way to go to demonstrate that they get it in terms of the harm they caused not just to [...]
...For years, politicians and labor leaders in Washington have ignored Boeing’s pleas to stay competitive. In 2002, Boeing CEO Alan Mulally told the State House Labor [...]
More than 1.5 million state residents left for other parts of the United States from 2000 to 2008... It was the biggest out-of-state migration in the [...]
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A. [...]
...Among other steps, the authors recommend that the government ensure the' [...]
The union insists on the government picking up the entire tab for the cost of insuring the non-union middle class [...]
Coburn proposed an amendment [...]
It’s not just that every speech is spin, it’s that [...]
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I recommend skipping books and articles about “the death of this” or “the rebirth of that” or anything remotely related. [...]
...Not so, says another souvenir store manager in Washington, where 80 percent [...]
...then catching Osama Bid Laden should be easy.Thanks to William Heasley. [...]
What do you call it when a man presses a bra to his nose and mouth and inhales deeply -- in public? I don't know, but we've caught Paul Krugman doing it. That's him on the right, below. Okay, here's the real story about this, from Gizmodo.Yes, [...]
Now, I know he was selected for his contribution to the [...]
Over here on the Right Coast, those of us at Mick Danger’s Smartass Delivery Services are enjoying our predictions coming true, or, more accurately, we are enjoying that [...]
2) Write that non-existent book they keep showing
3) Do something to slick down that hair in front [...]
Beyond all the other short comings of [...]
Thanks to William Heasley. [...]
Sen. Schumer makes the incendiary charge that flash trading "seriously undermines market integrity" by leading to front-running. If it did, then [...]
Members of Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of the Obama Youth Corps—I come to you tonight to [...]