Day Tripper

To my knowledge, this is the only Beatle appearance on television featuring Go-Go dancers:

In the Mail

Cagney and Hope, or, how's that Hopey - Cagney stuff workin' out for ya?

A jobs program for lawyers. Jonathan Weil notes how companies bailed out by TARP are now suing each other. In at least one case, the the litigatants are both majority-owned by the taxpayers. And Freddie Mac is suing the IRS! That means you, Mr. and Ms Taxpayer, are paying the lawyers for both sides. And these lawyers make better money than most of us do. What a great country.

The Chairman of the Democratic National Committee refuses to reputiate Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa's "take out those son of a bitches" command, delivered in front of the Presidential seal, immediately before Obama replaced him at the podium:



White House spokesman Jay Carney takes the same position:



By the way, I am alone in believing that Jay Carney is the dumbest ox ever to occupy the position of White House Spokesman? This guy doesn't even know that the Teamsters quite publicly split with the AFL-CIO just a few years ago, after a long history of hostility between the two. He has moments like this seemingly every day:

The Week in Quotes

“There’s no doubt we’re being persecuted. But while I was sitting in my conference room, while agents blocked the door to my office, I decided two things. One, we were going to try and fight this in court. Secondly, we were going to give this issue visibility.” Henry Juszkiewicz

"You can’t design a defense to stop me." Michael Vick

“I don’t claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.” Michael Arrington

"The Tenth Amendment . . . That's the slave amendment."  Jesse Jackson

"[I] pulled our country back from the brink." Barack Obama   Of what? Prosperity? Civility?

"As a result of heavy Guard fire, they've asked for a cease-fire. ... A cease-fire with a terrorist group doesn't make any sense. We want them to leave the border region before any dialogue can be held."
Hamid Ahmadi

"This is a man who has devoted his life to the public domain, whose passion is politics, who is committed to the left. How could he stay out of the supreme confrontation when we have Nicolas Sarkozy in front of us and a categorical imperative to beat him?" Pierre Moscovici  His passion is politics?


"Let's take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong" [sic]. Jimmy Hoffa, the speaker immediately preceding the President of the United States at a Detroit campaign rally

“I’ve seen Detroit prove the cynics and the naysayers wrong.” Barack Obama

“I support him more than 100 percent.” Karen Porter, a Detroit resident who has been unemployed for three years