“More Rickety Oil Rigs” ~ Real Time With Bill Maher

By: Thursday June 10, 2010 8:14 am

This was an all-around good episode with the likes of Katrina vanden Heuval, Andrew Sullivan, Van Jones and Paul Begala. Obama’s response to BP is debated and poor Sully seems to have fallen out of love with Israel.
Maher is quick to point out misinformation about Hamas and the two-state solution and Judd Apatow is very nervous…

The DCCC has got to be joking.

By: Saturday October 17, 2009 10:28 am

A letter to Chris Van Hollen, DCCC Chairman, in response to emails I have received recently from him, James Carville, and Paul Begala.

“The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good” and Related Platitudes

By: Thursday August 13, 2009 9:19 pm

Of course, all of us have heard about one of the President’s favorite maxims, “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” with its implication that practicality most often calls for us to forego our attempts to reach a hard to achieve or impossible ideal, in favor of acting to achieve a good result that, while not ideal; certainly represents an improvement in our current situation. It’s very hard to disagree with a proposition like that; but while there’s nothing wrong with the idea behind it; the devil is in the details of how you apply it.

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