Author: Damir Marusic

By Feb 02,2009

Our Post-Racial Future

This screencap from the WSJ has been circulating around the blogosphere: Yeah, definitely not OK. But what about this from TPM? Cuz, you know, he’s BLACK! Like Dre and Ice...

By Jan 31,2009

Parallels

Socially conservative Republicans end up visiting prostitutes and/or tapping their feet in airport bathrooms as a means of soliciting homosexual sex much in the same way that redistributionist Democrats seem...

By Jan 27,2009

A Return to What?

Megan McArdle has a deft post up critiquing the Democratic rush to fiscal stimulus which is well worth your time. In a nutshell, there’s precious little evidence to suggest that...

By Jan 27,2009

Consolidating Gains

“Russia to relocate fleet to Abkhazia” sez the FT. From Sevastopol in Ukraine, that is. So much for all the speculation people (like me) were doing about Russia’s next steps...

By Jan 27,2009

Scared of Cost-Benefit Analysis?

Elana Schor at the newly relaunched TPMDC writes about an LA Times article criticizing Obama’s pick of Cass Sunstein to head up OIRA. In her summary, she makes one truly...

By Jan 21,2009

Irony or Foolhardy Optimism?

I’m not sure if Brad DeLong is kidding here: The inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America offers the possibility of the...