Broadway Tim
I stumbled across this by Heather Wilhelm. She says, “It’s a funny thing these days; you say old-fashioned things, you get called a provocateur.”
She was reviewing a book called Girl Land.
Game Plan
After three years of anger over ObamaCare and the housing crisis, the Republican nomination is boiling down to RomneyCare vs The Freddie Mac water boy. Here’s Krauthammer.
Banking on Europe
The Fed sent a gusher of cheaper dollars to European banks. Robert Samuelson tells us what this means.
Bye Bye, Barney
We won’t have Barney Frank to kick around any more and vice versa – here’s Dana Milbank on Barney the Bully.
This was inspired by one of my favorite Don Wright cartoons. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find a link to it. The cartoon featured a Vietnamese family standing in a landscape of bomb craters waving thanks to American jets as they flew away at the end of the war.
I’ve always considered Barney Frank just as much a friend to the poor as we were to the Vietnamese.
Love of the Game
In the wake of a scandal involving trinkets, tattoos, and summer jobs, Ohio State hired a new football coach – for $26 mil over six years. Problem solved.
