Safire’s retiring
from the NYT Ed/Op page to head the Dana Foundation.
When you’re through changing, learning, working to stay involved – only then are you through. “Never retire.”
I hope he stays with the On Language Sunday Mag articles.
Archives for January 2005
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(please note the date correction. I had first posted “Tomorrow”. My apologies.)
The USA Responds, and the UN?
asks The Diplomad
Of course, from the UN’s point of view, too much is never enough.
Lord Layard’s Joy Watch
From Roberto
Their plan would put a lid on property taxes based on income. If you make less than $100,000 a year, your property taxes would be a maximum of 5% of your income. Between $100,000 and $200,000 you would pay a maximum of 6% and there’s no limit on those making over $200,000. In order to make up for the loss in property tax income, the plan would raise state income taxes on “the wealthy”. Unfortunately, the plan defines wealthy as someone making more than $70,000 a year. In New Jersey, a family of a postal worker married to a school teacher makes more than that, and I wouldn’t exactly consider them rich. And if the state doesn’t raise the income tax high enough, the NJ Supreme Court will step in, point to the language in the NJ State Constitution about “thorough and efficient” education and order the state to raise income taxes even further
New Jersians are well on their way to being the happiest people on the planet.
Update Via Barcepundit, the joy spreads to Gibraltar.
Cover the war as a war
Everybody’s been writing about this, but I just found it at Instapundit. It merits a comment.
Tim Blair first commented on this WaPo article, In One Night, Iraqi Turns From Friend to Foe: Man Who Supported U.S. Occupation Calls Americans ‘the Devil’ After Alleged Raid on His House
The article says the Devil Americans went into his house, searched his bedroom where they found his porn collection,
“It was a nightmare,” he said. “I will never forget those bad soldiers when they put the Koran among the magazines.
Within 20 minutes, the soldiers left without arresting him or his mother. While the soldiers went next door to search his neighbor’s house, Imaad began to slap his mother, he said. “The American people are devils,” Um Imaad recalled her son repeating.
Heck, Dog The Bountyhunter’s wife‘s been know to do more damage than that. First, Dog kicks the door in. Dog cuffs you before he asks questions. If there’s nothing amiss, he might let you go. Then Mrs. Dog would come back and kick the young (but rapidly approaching middle age, since he’s 32) porn collector’s butt from here to tarnation if she found out he’d been beating up his mom. You don’t want to mess with Mrs Dog.
The bloggers are all over this one. Roger L. Simon explores The Myth of the Foreign Correspondent; Sisyphean Musings notices that the neighborhood was raided after a car bomb explosion. He also explains what a cordon and search operation is. Neo Warmonger points out that Jackie Spinner, the WaPo reporter, didn’t even know that Um Imaad means “Imaad’s Mom”. Whether Spinner knew or not, Um Imaad’s got her work cut out for her since Imaad’s off his meds.
So it comes down to this: The WaPo gives this sorry excuse of a journalist several column inches for an article that not only ignores vital details of a story, and provides no substantiation of Imaad’s charges, and we’re supposed to feel sorry for an out-of-control, w*nk*r thug?
Small wonder Hugh Hewitt wants the MSM to start covering the war as a war.
Update Say Anything‘s commenters argue on the issues.
My friend, M, wrote asking “what happened to your language? You usually write in more genteel terms”, to which I respond, blame it on the cold weather.
New Jersey weather blogging round-up
Global warming, my A**. Right now it’s still snowing, and the Weather Channel link says the temperature’s “18°F, Feels Like: 3°F”
Barista‘s got a sledding survey. Mary‘s greying. Jeff spent ten hours trying to get home. Bill Power’s been working long hours.
Kate bought herself some red snowboots (way to go!). Jim‘s noticing a State of Emergency, and went to the store.
Dan heard some news on the radio while driving in the snow.
Sluggo‘s angel is on the ground. John & Tracey already started shoveling.
Jack‘s got pictures, and don’t miss his Carnival of the Commies (“We read the blogs that drive you nutty so you don’t have to”) while there.
I might do some shoe shopping while the guys shovel the driveway.
Whitman’s sampler, continued
And I believe that anyone who buys this book at Barnes & Noble should be able to pick up a complimentary pound of coffee over at the Starbucks counter. And not decaf.
Paul Mulshine, in today’s Star Ledger.
Lord Layard’s Joy Watch
Lord Layard’s the guy who thinks higher taxes would make people happy
New Jersey’s the place for him: Property taxes in New Jersey continued their relentless climb last year, with average tax bills rising 6.2 percent, according to a Star-Ledger analysis. Move to NJ, Lordy, and enjoy.
High taxes: my reason for bad hair, (this blog’s raison d’etre, if you may); Lord Layard’s reason for joy.
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