Sentential Links #186

Linkage….

:: Last week, when White House communications director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded the way it always does. It denied the accusation with a straight face while proceeding to confirm it with its coverage.

:: So to sum up: Sarah Palin’s “drill” plan involves ignoring how much oil is actually in the ground, how quickly it can be drilled, how easily it can be accessed, and the basic reality of the global oil market. And this is where she thinks she is an expert. (For some reason, being a Republican “expert” doesn’t mean you have to know what you’re talking about. That’s why John McCain keeps showing up on teevee to talk about Afghanistan, a topic on which he’s made a cottage industry being wrong about.)

:: Honestly, I have no idea what the GOP would do. As near as I can tell, they don’t currently have a single idea, realistic or otherwise, for reducing the deficit in the long term. My guess is that if they suddenly found themselves back in power, they’d fumble around for a while and then, having thought of nothing else to do, try to pass some sort of tax cut. It wouldn’t make any sense and it would make the budget situation worse, but they just don’t have any other policy ideas. They are the Party of One Idea. And it doesn’t matter that their one idea is the primary reason we are in such a bad budget situation in the first place.

:: For a bunch of people of pooh-pooh the “victimology” of minorities, it would be hard to find a bigger bunch of crybabies than American right-wingers these days.

:: Yes, Solomon Kane. He may call your wife a harlot and punch you out for taking the Lord’s name in vain, and he definitely won’t let your child engage in anything so Paganistic as trick or treating, but when you want a man who will almost certainly bring your youngsters home undevoured and not in thrall to ancient evil, this dour Puritan is the name that parents trust.

:: At the end of the day, I don’t think the problem is the people who want to figure out where books get shelved. It’s people who want to remove the books entirely, and would very much like to burn them. It’s people stealing books as a way of making sure that other people don’t read them.

:: So I showed you the new Doctor Who logo yesterday, but it strikes me that some of you young’ns haven’t really seen the old ones. Allow me to introduce you to them then.

All for this week.