Question: What do you call a person who believes that government, and not the market, should control an economy? Or one who believes that it is the role of the government to step in and buy up effective control of troubled private corporations — corporations troubled in many ways because of prior government interventions — with (future) taxpayer money? And — and this is the really important part — is

Why all the formality? I say we just put all the corporate fat cats into a Colloseum, have them fight armed members of the treasury department, and then let our new Emperor give a thumbs up or thumbs down to decide the fate of the survivors. At least then we could like, place bets and shit.

So suggests Chris Seiple, writing in the CSM: In the course of my travels — from the Middle East to Central Asia to Southeast Asia — it has been my great privilege to meet and become friends with many devout Muslims. These friendships are defined by frank respect as we listen to each other; understand and agree on the what, why, and how of our disagreements, political and theological; and,

…one bit of “smart diplomacy” at a time… **** (more here and here.) *** update: Biden jumps in to help out! (thanks to Abe)

Do with it as you please.

Surprise! “Obama Town Hall Questioners Were Campaign Backers”: […] while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National

Jimmie Bise, Blogger of The Sundries Shack, considers what’s behind the amazing popularity of British MEP Daniel Hannan, whose pantsing of (one-eyed, unelected Scottish asswipe) Gordon Brown has become a viral sensation in the US, and reading the tea leaves, sees a solidification in the ranks of American conservatives, if not their elected representatives. Go read the whole thing. Things have gotten so bad for Gordo that even Fausta’s begun

For your amusement and edification: Sometimes the threat of a cockslap is just the threat of a cockslap. Freud said that, I think.

Afraid not. Maybe next week, though — provided I don’t make the mistake of leaving an entire tray of hash brownies on the counter again, where it turns out any little bastard with curled toenails and access to a step stool can can reach it. — On the other hand, the pantry is suddenly filthy with bags of Cheese Doodles and those single-serve packets of peanut butter and pretzel Combos,

Welcome to the New World Order, to be introduced using AGW and “climate change” as it’s Trojan Horse: A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for