“NEVER MIND:” Waxman’s Emily Litella subpoenas: “Hearings on this matter would likely have proved an embarrassment to them, and helped drag out discussion of Obamacare’s unexpected ill effects.”
Will Collier comments: “The CEOs should show up anyway, and hold a press conference illustrating all the additional costs and related impacts to their bottom lines and prospects for hiring new employees.”
I had some earlier thoughts on Waxman’s error in this column.
POWER LINE: Don’t Leave It To Cleaver, Part 7.
ROLL CALL: Corker Withdraws All Earmark Requests. “Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) withdrew all of his appropriations requests for fiscal 2011, saying the process for obtaining earmarks is ‘fundamentally flawed and lacks oversight.'”
SUSANNAH BRESLIN: Trigger Warnings Don’t Work: Here’s Why. They certainly do, er, trigger nasty hatemail, though. “These days, feminism isn’t a movement at all, really, but a collection of blogs obsessed with the pop culture it claims to be victimized by, a forum for women who promote themselves as victims of a patriarchy that no longer exists, a pretend movement that contains within it no forward movement at all, only a fetal-like desire to curl up on itself, muttering Women’s Studies jargon, and handing out trigger warnings like party favors at a girl’s-only slumber party.”
SUGGESTION AND DISCUSSION ON how Tea Partiers should deal with crashers.
THE GREAT TEA-BAIT: Heath Shuler didn’t hear the N-word. “It may be the most celebrated missing recording since Watergate: the nonexistent or unaccounted-for video of the tea-party protesters at the Capitol who three black congressmen claim yelled racial slurs at them on March 20, the eve of ObamaCare’s enactment. . . . “
SEE A TEA PARTY “CRASHER?” Report ’em to PJTV.
FRANK J. FLEMING: Saving Guam from Capsizing All in a Day’s Work for U.S. Congressmen.
MARKDOWNS ON science fiction and fantasy books.
On a related note, I’ve been enjoying Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files books, which I started reading at the beach in December. I’ve now read ’em all except for the one that came out last week, and I guess I’m going to have to read it in hardcover, as there doesn’t seem to be a Kindle edition.
UPDATE: Bill Quick has a point. Well, I haven’t bought the hardcover yet. Various readers say there was a Kindle edition available for pre-order, but it’s tied up in the Penguin / Amazon pricing dispute.
SINCE 1773: Proud To Be A Teabagger. Better than a teabaggee, I guess. . . .
AERIAL VIDEO: Boston Tea Party Crowds.
PETER SUDERMAN: Lies, Damn Lies, and Campaign Tax Promises.
LOOKING AT MEDIA COVERAGE of the health care overhaul. “My question is this: where were these reporters before the passage of the health care bill?”
EMILY BAZELON: Are Judge Diane Wood’s Abortion Rulings Truly Indefensible?
DEFENDING AGAINST CYBERWAR can be lucrative. Which doesn’t in itself make warnings bogus.
PJTV: Palin In Beantown.
OLD IRON and inadvertent documentaries. With a bonus James Lileks reference!
ARIZONA DOCTOR goes Galt.
BIG JOURNALISM WARNS that the NYT is about to endanger American troops.
NEW A.P. POLL: Obama Slips To New Low, Other Dems Slide, Too.
Plus, Obama and Ron Paul in Statistical Tie?
And Rep. Charles Djou tied in Hawaii Rep. race.
RON BAILEY: On Being A 21st Century Peasant. “McKibben sees retreat from modernity as our only option because he believes that humanity has reached the limits of our creativity.”
A CLIMATEGATE whitewash?
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