Banana Republic

Damn funny.

Your Morning Irony

By Matthew Yglesias bio

Just a few New York Times headlines that popped out at me this morning:

Senate
Approves Bill Protecting Gun Businesses

Lawmakers'
Pet
Projects Find Home in Bill

Unending
Graft Is Threatening Latin America

I think it would be a mistake
to construe the political forces governing the United States at the present
moment as representing "conservatism" in any sort of traditional sense as one
might find in a book on political theory. A graft-ridden banana republic, on the
other hand, is not a terrible model.

For any of you interested in politics, he's one of the more entertaining writers. His stuff is regularly here and here.