David Thompson rips the space-time continuum a new one and pushes Jeff Greenwald in: I saw. I notice the reviewer equates “progressive politics” with “brains”. Thing is, the “progressive” moralising was one of the worst things about Trek, especially in its later iterations. Those “complicated ethical conundrums” were usually heavy-handed, slightly ludicrous and, more importantly, undramatic. Like the mysterious absence of money – which in 40-odd years was somehow never

From Howard Dean. No, not all the crap about this is just more of what Bush started (I thought the Democrats hated Bush); that Americans are optimistic; that the stimulus package is working to revive the economy; and that Obama is good for the economy. That’s to be expected. But rather the plain speak comes from the final bit: “I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight

Well, yes, if you believe Time’s Michael Grunwald: The party’s ideas — about economic issues, social issues and just about everything else — are not popular ideas. They are extremely conservative ideas tarred by association with the extremely unpopular George W. Bush, who helped downsize the party to its extremely conservative base. A hard-right agenda of slashing taxes for the investor class, protecting marriage from gays, blocking universal health insurance

Now, in Slate, Jeff Greenwald fellates Obama and Spock at the same time.

Just Manny being (a chemically-enhanced) Manny…

As I was reading through the comments to the article at Politico trumpeting socialized medicine, I was almost immediately confronted by what I’m certain will be the “second wave” attack strategy from progressives, the major points for which are distilled into this single, angry comment. In response to a commenter who notes that the Obama “plan” is quite vague on the particulars, our “progressive” useful idiot lets ‘er rip: What’s

Terrible how Star Trek has decided to entertain, rather than lecture: The latest film version of “Star Trek,” however, is more brawn than brain, and it largely jettisons complicated ethical conundrums in favor of action sequences and special effects. The film shows the beginnings of the Enterprise crew, tracing how Kirk, Spock and the others came together. All the character quirks are there, and the Enterprise is rendered more realistically

As Dan brought to our attention below, Jim Lindgren relates the government writing off over $7 billion to Chrysler. A nice little gift in and of itself. That leaves the $6 billion in ongoing loans that Obama mentioned, correct? Apparently not. From Evan Newmark, at the WSJ’s Deal Journal, we learn: Perhaps, the Obama team doesn’t believe that America can handle the truth of the Chrysler bailout’s full cost. Let’s

But that’s okay. With no charges, you’ll see no public trials. Instead, the punishment will happen beneath the radar, to be doled out by state bar associations. Remind me again: to whose campaigns does the bulk of ABA contributions go again? From the NYT: An internal Justice Department inquiry has concluded that Bush administration lawyers committed serious lapses of judgment in writing secret memorandums authorizing brutal interrogations but that they

…this time, GOP style… Unfortunately, in an age of soundbite politics, this seems, on the surface, like a necessary evil, this march toward pre-digestion for all the baby birds living outside the Beltway. After all, we need to win over that “moderate middle” — the ones who want government to control healthcare, employing unelected bureaucrats and giving them the power to make decisions about life and death. We have to