big ideas
Newt Gingrich went to an Illinois day dinner yesterday, to talk shit. The News Media no longer covers him, because whatever, but someone at the event fortunately had a camera phone to catch his latest formulations of wonder, bigness — massive hot air balloons of Seriousness. For example: “Democracy is simply a shadow event floating [...]
Newt Gingrich claims to think big thoughts that no one else thinks, when really all he’s done in his career is speak or rather be Speakery or historiany, which does not require thought. Case in point: back when his hair was big enough to better shield his ears from hearing the inanity/insanity of what he [...]
The serious proposals for fixing “the housing crisis” in this country have so far amounted to a) Alan Greenspan suggesting the federal government burn down the millions of vacant foreclosures across America and b) an actual government program that allowed Goldman Sachs to buy foreclosures in bulk for pennies on the dollar and then rent [...]
