Over Two Months Now And...

I'm finally getting around to blogging. I chalk it up to Obama disappointment depression followed by the Obama satisfaction elation that came after the HCR bill(s) passed.

If you haven't ever read the conservative writings of Jonah Goldberg, you can easily Google his missive that matches up to this letter from me to the Anchorage Daily News:

How does someone get to be a “fellow” at the American Enterprise Institute (Opinion: Jonah Goldberg, March 22) and not know that it was Republican President Warren G. Harding that first and most famously uttered the words: “Return to Normalcy,” not Franklin Roosevelt.
How does Goldberg get away with saying that, “The 1920s was a decade of roaring economic growth,” while failing to add that the false economic growth he cites rested on the backs of the working class. Laborers, farmers and the emergent middle class saw little or no improvement in their condition. Predatory lenders only made them think they were “getting ahead.” Indeed, the disparity of wealth in America in 1928 is only rivaled by the disparity of wealth in 2008, just before the current recession.
And how funny is it that the Daily News continues to publish right-wing pundits like Jonah Goldberg? Pretty funny, given the apparently purposeful ineptitude of conservative research and fact check departments.

Also worth a Google search:

Bill Maher: "New Rule: You Can't Use "There Will Be No Cooperation for the Rest of the Year" as a Threat If There Was No Cooperation in the First Half of the Year" Courtesy of HuffPo, and

Charles M. Blow's "Who's Country is this?" from the NYT.

And if anyone's interested...
My next book to get: "The History of White People," by Nell Painter (I always wondered about us white folk).

My current read: "Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State" by Garry Wills