Steve

After Harry Reid finally announced he would send up a bill containing a public option regardless of who didn’t like it, he called his doctor in the middle of the night in a panic.  The doctor told him to relax; it was only late-onset spinal growth.  And that it wasn’t a pre-existing condition.

Investigative reporter Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine reveals the number of US drone strikes in Pakistan has risen dramatically since President Obama took office. During his first nine-and-a-half months in office, Obama authorized as many CIA aerial attacks in Pakistan as President Bush did in his final three years in office. At any … Read more

In this week’s Observer a fun piece by Steve Kornacki on Rudy’s recent debacle: his idea of running for governor.  When he sized Paterson up as a political non-entity he was right, says Kornacke, but too right.  Soon Cuomo became the fave in a Democratic state leading now by over 50 points.  Now you’d have … Read more

I’m a (dead) Soul Man In the accelerating race to the top of the boredom pop chart we have the NY Times review of “American Idiot”, a rock opera by the Berkeley Reperatory Theater.  It’s based on the album by Green Day.  The Times spends hundreds of words trying to describe the phenomenon of young … Read more

Today we heard that Ken Lewis is retiring from Bank of America.  He’ll get $125 million in retirement and stock.  When you get $45 billion in the bailout it really doesn’t seem so much.  And it wasn’t easy. Paying $50 billion for Merrill Lynch’s toxic lunch, especially at Paulson and Bernanke’s Soup Nazi Kitchen is … Read more