Jenkins is a smart man Tom Smith

Thank God for the Wall Street Journal.  Jenkins explains why if you start with bad policy and then screw it up, the results are likely to be disappointing.

Meanwhile, Krugman explains why we must spend more money. Does he think it's possible for a government to ever get to the point where it should stop spending?  I think when we have 100 million dollar bills, we should call them "Krugmans".

Peggy Noonan has discovered books.  You go, girl.  I like books too.  They're fun to read and you learn stuff.  Does she remind anybody else of the WASP aunt from hell?  When I read her, I feel like I am being bombarded by gigantic Macy Thanksgiving parade scale thought balloons, extremely large and colorful, but empty.  It's unsettling.  Or as Peggy would say, jarring.  Even worse, rather jarring.  O God, I feel so jarred.  It's like, she's on her way to some party with her expensive friends, and she has a sense of something.  Of absence.  Of presence.  Of both absence and presence.  She sees a Christmas tree.  It reminds her -- it's Christmas.  Where are the men we once had?  In the future, we may have less money.  This is a truth.  And then her friend says, "Peggy, you know, money isn't everything."  Now that's a thought worth hanging onto.  Some banality inflated to monstrous size.  If you had me at Gitmo, and read her stuff over and over to me, I would tell you everything I knew.  

Google changes the party line.  Are they being evil, or did something that was evil before somehow change?

Those darn Hollywood commies.  They are difficult to make fun of because they are just so appalling. 

VD Hanson as usual is on to something, or at least two things:  Media atmospherics will change greatly once Obama is in office.  Happy days will be here again.  And also about Rick Warren.  Both Warren and Obama are big salesmen of vague New Agey meets Jesus bromides, all-American flim-flammers. Hope and Change and the Purpose Driven Life are both at bottom marketing strategies, the products of which are, respectively, Obama and Warren.  They belong together.  Maybe they'll fall in love and get married.  Warren probably watched the Denver Obamaclypse and thought "I wish I could fill a stadium like that.  Jesus, will you help me fill a stadium like that?"

And here's one of the few things I've read about the recession I agree with.

Comments

[Paul Sand]

The Google link goes to the Krugman column again. Probably you meant to link to something else?

[james wilson]

Krugman's clueless column is ann example of how it is only failure that can remove us from our illusions. Everything he supposes to be important is flawed or poisoned, but he only wishes to further support his pet dysfunctions through an especially difficult time, which they actually have caused.

[anon]

Your Google article goes to Krugman and your Noonan article goes to the Peter Schiff article.

[Ken Griffey Shoes]

Such a good writing, or by I saw for the first time. I'm quite happy, you are a good writer