Rob, my first inclination is to agree whole-heartedly. But as bad as the lopsided-ness of corporate pay is, the alternative is far worse. Think of the slippery slope! Who gets to decide what is fair? Obama's pay czar?

I have been reluctant to jump on the Cain Train because I fully expect him to screw up in a big way. He proudly declares that he is "is not a politician", and I fear that will be his undoing.

But he hasn't done it yet, and every time I see him I like him more. I wish I could get over the nagging feeling that the minute I board the Cain Train it's going to crash into something at full speed. 

I think it's like everything else. 33% are right, 33% are wrong (left), and 33% are in the middle, swaying in the breeze. That middle 33 is made up of people who don't follow politics, independents, and doofuses.

There was a video posted a few days ago on the Corner of a young "protester" taunting an old Jewish man. Sickening at first glance, but then you realize the protester is putting on a show. Via that video, I found a guy who has been filming the denizens of Union Square for almost 10 years. It's fascinating, well done. I have spent all my web time over the last 2 days watching his videos.

My point is, that kid is not a principled protester. He is a street person. One step above homeless, he hangs out in parks all day and night, takes all kinds of drugs, and occasionally finds a place to flop. A lot of the other Union Square regulars have migrated to Wall Street for the free food and all the interesting stuff going on. These guys are all about the "scene".

Put this crowd together with college kids (also motivated by a desire to be part of the "scene"), aging hippies, and paid astroturfers, and you got yourself a movement.

 Kiss of death for LinkedIn.

It's all tied together on the left: voter fraud, the politics of personal destruction (remember that one?), vulgarity, blind obedience to leftist dogma, and most of all...intolerance.  

This was a very entertaining and enlightening debate. CNN did a great job with the format and was very pleasantly surprised with Wolf. Perry looked fake, befuddled. A couple of moments when he got all deer in the headlights and started fumbling, cringe-inducing shades of W. Romney tried to touch him up on SS but should have saved his ammo, because Bachmann and Santorum took him to the woodshed. Cain and Newt were brilliant in their happy nothing-to-lose roles. Huntsman was revealed to be a dork, and Paul was revealed to be a nutjob.

I think Romney won.  Even when getting dinged by Perry, he came across to me as good-natured, earnest, sober, mature. Perry lost. I feel like I learned more about him than any of the others, and what I learned was not positive.

I just started a new thread wondering about BO's golf game.  This picture is another example of why I wonder about it.  He can't be liking that shot.  Hasn't he played enough golf to get somewhat good at it by now?  

Great song.  Still somewhat of an open question (IMHO) whether he will live up to the high expectations of 2008.  I've been a little disappointed by each of his albums but they all have a gem or two in them, like this song.  Also check out Monsters of Folk, in which he participated with other greats from the "folk" scene.

I think that what Perry meant to say was actually closer to "treacherous", but as he was saying it, it didn't sound right to him, ie "almost treacherous" vs "almost treasonous".  The latter sounds better.  He had already committed himself to the word "almost" and he got stuck.  I disagree that the fed chairman's actions have been treasonous, while I completely agree they have been treacherous.  

My only quibble is with the word "almost".  If he had left that out he would have said "treacherous", and nobody would have noticed, because that term is not loaded.

Exactly.  9.5T is what we should be talking, and eventually will.  I like that this issue is getting a lot of attention now.  No matter the outcome of this conflict, I feel like we will get another crack at this when Tea Party wins more seats.  I am well versed in what Krauthammer et al are saying but it doesn't wash with me.  Smells like TARP.

Thanks for posting this.  I heard about this documentary but never saw it.  This really got to me on an emotional level.  I think it's the way these guys talk about the music as if it were something over which they have no control, that existed before and will always exist.  Page plucked it from the ether.

And one other point.  Even though Page has played this riff thousands of times, it still takes him back to that place of so many decades ago.

My wife ordered the set based on her love of the HBO Series Game of Thrones.  She loves True Blood too, and she flew through the entire Charlaine Harris catalog like Sherman through butter, to use a mixed metaphor.  But R.R. is a different story.  She has been chewing on the first book for three weeks and still has another 150 pages.  I don't think she is enjoying it either.  I think she bought the set, expecting to love it, and now she's facing R.R. purgatory for as far as the eye can see.

I agree DFW is great, but it is physically draining to read sixty-page chunks of footnotes typeset.  

I listened to this one yesterday on my bike, which was probably not a good idea.  I almost went into a ditch over Murphy's parting shot about the "know-nothing wing".  I felt much better when the inestimable Mr. Lileks so colorfully painted a picture of the left's version of know-nothingism.  I just wish this point could have been made directly to Murphy, but he did kind of lob that one over his shoulder on the way out the door.

Also, Rob!  We know Lileks is great at segues!  Please stop putting the brakes on things by pointing it out!

Having said all that, this was one of the most entertaining and illuminating podcasts I can remember.  I think it's great to get other perspectives from the right.

Well said, but they're just so dooshey.

My wife voted for Bill Clinton.  Today she has a giant pink elephant sticker on the back of the minivan.  

On the other hand, my brother married a liberal and now he's a metrosexual.