The market is getting a nice boost this morning on improved sentiment over the situation in Greece. There are rumors that the EU might throw Greece a bone, and that is helping the euro rally. Of course, the flip-side is that the EU could be going down a slippery slope if they decide to do this, because Spain, Portugal, Ireland, etc. would be the first to get in line.
There’s something pathetically instructive about today’s GOP to be gained from reading Marc Thiessen’s defenses of the torture policies of his previous employer. Obviously, he’s got nothing to work with — trying to argue that simulated executions aren’t torture is a non-starter — but no matter what he makes sure to repeatedly plug his shitty book defending the grossly immoral polices he also defended as a paid hack for the worst elected administration since the Civil War. And then, upping the ante, he claims that you don’t have standing to condemn torture if you haven’t carefully studied this alleged masterpiece of western letters. Everybody’s got to make a buck, I guess. For those who don’t want to get Corner cooties, here’s a summary of his arguments:
Now that one of the great wankers of our era has turned out to be a serial adulterer as well, would it be possible for NPR to desist from quoting Niall Ferguson every time it runs a story even remotely connected to the problem of the US national debt? I understand the logic in the sentence I just wrote makes utterly no sense, but neither does anything Ferguson has to say about monetary policy or, for that matter, the sloppily-defined term that helped make him a wealthy academic playboy in the first place.
