Archive for 2013

THEY’RE EVEN NOTICING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES: Health Care Woes Undermine Obama’s Vision of Government. “The implicit promise of Barack Obama’s presidency, delivered during the 2008 campaign and again repeatedly since then, was that government would not face a debacle like the recent malfunction of the technology behind the president’s new health care marketplaces. . . . The breakdown of the federal HealthCare.gov Web site could emerge as a test of Mr. Obama’s philosophy, with potentially serious implications for an agenda that relies heavily on the belief in a can-do bureaucracy.”

Actually, what’s big isn’t that they’re noticing, it’s that they’re talking about it.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Syria: Obama’s Rwanda Moment. It’s actually worse than that, because Rwanda didn’t have such a devastating effect on the wider region, or on our diplomatic standing.

NEW FRONTIERS IN FEMINISM: Marriage Advice: Reasons Why You Should Withhold Sex. This will end well. But in today’s America, liberation apparently means that women are just walking vaginas, deriving all their power from their lady parts.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Why don’t the women in Colombia fix their own friggin’ road? I swear, there is never a feminist around when there is work to be done.”

POWER-MAD BUT PRACTICAL: Test-Driving The Audi RS7. Zero to sixty in 3.4 seconds. I wish the Audi folks would give me one of these to drive. . . .