Happy Birthday to Kim Richards, 49. Not only was she Tia (and the kid who played Tony really couldn't act at all), but was also a regular on "James at 16", which is a huge big deal for many people my age...it was sort of a 1970s Degrassi, but less Canadian. And she was on "Hello, Larry."
Gut yontif to all those observing the holiday -- you really can't knock a holiday that basically just celebrates happiness for a week, can you? Meanwhile, some good stuff:
1. Sarah Binder on the politics of the Fed.
2. House Republicans have a "replace" plan for ACA, after all. Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll are not impressed.
3. Does Mike Lee's tax plan add up? Matt Yglesias doesn't think so. By the way, as far as I can tell, and granted I just scanned a couple of articles, the health care plan they unveiled was Medicare Part D again -- all spending, no pay-fors. That they apparently haven't managed to come up with something that would expand coverage nevertheless is sort of impressive, but at any rate, Yglesias has the right attitude here -- let's see these things get scored before taking them seriously.
4. Robert David Sullivan has some fun on the 51st state question.
5. Sarah Kliff with an update on health care costs: some bad news, and some good.
6. And Kevin Drum on morning roundup posts. I'm pretty happy with my morning links posts, which are certainly not news roundups, so I don't think it's what he's talking about. I'm not actually 100% certain that it's the best use of the time it takes, but regular readers seem to enjoy them, and I know that at least sometimes I'll nudge something from obscurity to less obscurity. Not always, of course; I include plenty of non-obscure items. For me, there's a bit of a cheat element in it, since it gives me something to put up first thing in the morning that can be prepared in advance...I know I have plenty of readers in the Eastern time zone, so I do want something up relatively early.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
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Kim Richards will always be Prudence on "Nanny and the Professor" to me.
ReplyDeleteC'mon -- we're talking a movie with Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, *and* Donald Pleasence? (The other thing those three had in common was...?)
DeleteNot to mention the thoroughly embarrassing sequel, which only has Bette Davis and Christopher Lee (well, and Jack Soo).
Keep your morning links coming, Jonathan!
ReplyDeleteI very much agree. I am an East Coast reader who appreciates your morning links, which often gets me to read something valuable that I would not have found on my own.
DeleteLet me third (or seventh, and yes I understand Brian. The Publish button has got me a few times) the notion that your morning links are well worth it.
DeleteKeep your morning links coming, Jonathan!
ReplyDeleteKeep your morning links coming, Jonathan!
ReplyDeleteDear Lord you watch a lot of crappy TV
ReplyDeleteThrowing this out there since it's one of your (appropriate) fixations, JB:
ReplyDeleteBack during the Nov 1995-Jan 1996 government shutdown, the US was not engaged in any US military operations (excludes of course UN peacekeeping participation and covert ops, etc, etc). Today, we're in Afghanistan -- a true war, never simply a limited intervention. There are other ongoing US operations one could mention, but Afghanistan makes the point starkly enough.
I hope to see some Democrats eventually explaining that this is a further reason to find the GOP's political strategy and policy agenda (increasingly one and the same) deeply irresponsible. The point can be made in a non-demagogic, non-militarist way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_1995_and_1996
Wrong basic reference link. Corrected:
Deletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_military_operations