Tuesday Night Video – The Daily Show on Mittens vs. Newt

As we follow the returns, here’s Jon Stewart’s take on the Florida GOP primary, from yesterday.

The Idiocy of Austerity

One of my biggest disappointments with President Obama remains his decision to embrace the Tea Party concern with the deficit, giving credence to the lunatic desire to cut services and starve ourselves to prosperity. The CBO now has a new chart outlining in visual terms how the spending cuts are set to damage the economy even further. Bad politics, bad policy.

TV in Review: Sherlock, “A Study in Pink”

Okay, so I’m late to the game as usual with Sherlock…but in a way, aren’t we all late when matched up against Mr. Holmes?

Sherlock premiered in the UK in July of 2010 and is an update of the the classic mysteries penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over a century ago. The opening seconds are quite insistent about how un-Victorian they are — the slickly shot images of modern warfare announce to us that this is not going to be an old-fashioned BBC costume drama.

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Newt’s Electoral Allure

When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we’ll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we’ll want to let him go after one.

–Dr. Keith Ablow, Fox News
“Newt Gingrich’s Three Marriages Mean He Might Make a Strong President–Really”

Callista Gingrich

Image by Gage Skidmore via Flickr

Limerick after the leap

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