The Chris Moeller Archives

What I was reading during the countdown

I've been absent for a while. I don't think I've ever posted 10 consecutive days, and yet I know you've been missing our semi-daily discussions on events current and unrelated to serial television programs largely long-gone. This is what I've been reading online this month.


-- The most important article might be this one by Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi. It's time to burst the Great Goldman Sachs Bubble Machine and its grip on our economy.

-- One of the most disappointing elements of the Obama Presidency (Can you call it "disappointing" when you predicted it?) is his continued "trust me" approach in trying to get you to forgive his frequent footdragging. The president is not really your friend unless he acts like your friend. Don't buy the rhetoric.

-- The Moellers have one of their tri-annual, gigantic, blowout reunions next summer in sunny California. I hope it's still there.

-- George W. Bush was such a shitty president, it's easy to forget what a rotten one Dick Nixon was. Sometimes abortion is necessary, he argued on one of the Oval Office tapes, like "when you have a black and a white."

-- The newest Los Angeles Laker, Ron Artest, found a marvelous way to honor the late, great King of Pop. He'll be wearing uniform #37 for the Lakers this winter. Don't get it? Duh. The "Thriller" album stayed at #1 on the Billboard charts for 37 weeks.

-- Representative Steve King, the first Iowan elected to Congress whose brain was sculpted from butter, cast the solitary vote last week against placing a plaque in the Capitol Visitors Center acknowledging that the Capitol building was constructed with slave labor.

-- The New York Yankees settled their lawsuit with a fan who sued the team and the city after being thrown out of Yankee Stadium for attempting to leave his seat and go to the restroom during the playing of "God Bless America." How dare this infidel try to use the bathroom during the 7th inning stretch. And the Yankees get bailed out again. The city coughed up $10,000 in cash in the settlement and will pay $12,000 in legal fees to the New York Civil Liberties Union, but the Yankees didn't have to pay anything for your fascist policy of compelled patriotism. I'm pretty sure that even at the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, the SS men were allowed to go to the toilet. The man who filed the suit told reporters Wednesday he planned to spend his $10,000 settlement on a Legends Suite ticket for a Yankees/Blue Jays game in August.


I'll be back with a report from the baseball All-Star Game later in the week.

posted by CM @ 1:03 PM