Borowitz: Rick Perry Needs to ‘Tone Down’ His Rhetoric, Says Kim Jong-Il ‘He Scares Me,’ North Korean Dictator Says PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report) – Gov. Rick Perry’s performance in this week’s Republican debate, in which he called … [Read more...]
Archives for September 9, 2011
DiMasi sentenced to 8 years
Milton Valencia reports via Twitter that Judge Mark Wolf has sentenced Sal DiMasi to 8 years in prison. His cohort Richie McDonough got 7 years. The sentence strikes me as severe, but not unnecessarily so (I said to myself over … [Read more...]
Today’s must-reads: Social Security and the financial crisis
Every now and then, you read a piece and you think, gosh, if everyone would just read this and think about it, things would really be a lot better. It's rare that you see two such pieces in a single day, but I'm happy to report that today … [Read more...]