Bike lanes are making it too hard to park my Jag for free in Manhattan.

Seriously.

For the record

"Hard choices" and "shared sacrifice" always mean "cutting shit for the poor and middle class" and "more tax cuts for the rich." Just so you know.

It's not that complicated

Jon Chait seems genuinely puzzled about how conservatives are able to maintain seemingly contradictory views on taxes and deficits:

The Republican Party is thus able to simultaneously believe that debt financed tax cuts always succeed in leading to spending cuts, and that Bush's policy of debt-financed tax cuts failed because it was accompanied by higher spending. It's one of the cult-like attributes of conservative movement thought.

I don't think it's a cult-like attribute, it is the natural result of what happens when one tries to maintain a position of "fiscal responsibility" when in fact the true agenda is keeping taxes on the wealthy as low as possible, deficits be damned.

Things that shouldn't surprise me. . .

I do find it amazing how easy it seems to be for white Christian males to portray themsleves as victims of persecution.

People I dont read

There is a list of writers who, when I seen their name on the by-line, I know I don't have to bother as whatever drivel that follows is most likley not worth the paper/pixels it is displayed on. The first one that comes to mind is Megan McArdle (just one example of many, many). Another one is Nick Gillespie

Hello

This is my new blog. If you are reading this, you shouldn't be.