LinkSwarm for May 17, 2013

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Lawrence Person

And here’s another Friday LinkSwarm!

  • A reporter comes out and says the IRS harassed him after he did a tough interview with Obama.
  • The IRS knew about the scandal in 2012, but decided to wait until Obama was safely elected.
  • Why was the press so slow to pick up on so many of Obama’s scandals? Part of it is the media watchdogs are sleeping with the wolves.
  • Eurozone shrinks for sixth consecutive quarter and no one knows what to do about it. Well, that’s not true. I know what to do about it: Cut all budgets until they match receipts, reform the welfare state, and abandon the Euro. But I suspect Eurocrats would prefer another six quarters of shrinkage (at a minimum) before they’re willing to contemplate such heresy…
  • Republican in charge of Hispanic outreach in Florida switches to the Democratic Party. That’s some mighty fine staffing you’ve got going on there, Lou…
  • Nurse Bloomberg, putz that he is, is doing his best to ensure that Republicans take the Senate.
  • Those 1967 Israel borders liberals are always harping on sure didn’t do anything to prevent war.
  • Hugo Chavez’s socialist paradise is running out of toilet paper.
  • Dear Depressed People: There’s a tiny chance everything isn’t hopeless bullshit.

    • About Lawrence Person

    Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His political work has appeared in National Review, Reason, The Freeman, Liberty and The World & I. His SF has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis.
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