Marlow’s Listener

classical music is not a wonder of the human world, it’s a repellent against mildly anti-social behavior

Ben Bernacke, Tim Geitner and Sheila Bair are still in office, but Hank (the “Tank”) Paulson is on the beach and the newly published author of this inside-the-Beltway first-person I-was-there.

So, what do you get the man who has everything? We can safely assume that Paulson, the CEO of Goldman Sachs at the time, was well [...]

Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, an eatery where the right-on, “yes we can,” ACORN-loving, public-option-supporting man or woman of the people can tuck into a nice table d’hôte menu of scallops, guinea hen, and tarte tatin for a modest 95 clams—wine, tax, and oppressively sanctimonious and relentlessly conversation-busting service not included.

When I was in [...]

As for Jester, he knows plenty, and isn’t talking.

I know! In order to encourage competent people to serve in government, let’s bring them back, after they’ve returned to the private sector, and frog march them into a Congressional hearing where they can be heckled from the grandest of grandstands and be painted as villians [...]

This vile, narrow strip of crumbling asphalt zigzags uphill like an amusement park thrill ride, rising from the cool Pacific Coast over steep mountains and into hot, dusty highlands.

Taurus muscle car? As in 0-60 in 5.2?

Cast a glance at the geographical shape of the secessionists’ territory, with its long stretch of coast on the Atlantic Ocean and its long stretch of coast on the Gulf of Mexico. So long as the Confederates held Kentucky and Tennessee, the whole formed a great compact mass. The loss of both these states drives [...]

The theory is undeniably crazy — but not crackpot, which is a distinction worth drawing.

Of course, a small automobile would only be useful for the mites to drive around in, and I suppose our Christian interests don’t go that far.

Keith Bardwell, the local justice of the peace, has a personal policy that he will not license interracial marriages.