Seven beers with the wrong woman? Here’s seven minutes, in which Val Jarrett hits one after the other out of the park. Thank you, Rachel Maddow, for whom it’s a “little Christmas” whenever Obama gives a big speech. Not kidding.

Rachel got in maybe four qq. The rest was Here’s-Valerie time.

Seven beers, etc.? Here:

Seven Beers With The Wrong Woman
She made me get up and dance
Around and around we circled
‘Til I missed my money from my pants
I asked her if she had seen it
She smiled up at me and said, “No!”
To this day to me, it’s a big mystery
I wonder just where did it go.

He says “you guys” in a speech to Congress. Stumblebum.

We cant allow that tax cut to expire. It would hit middle-class families with a tax increase at the worst possible time, the president said Thursday. And some of you may have heard — I said to folks yesterday, especially my good Republican friends, I said, you guys have made pledges never to raise taxes on everybody ever again

Notre Dame coach post-loss:

I don’t know if I have a definition for this one except our kids, I feel for them after this one in particular, Kelly said.

Is the guy still playing who received special treatment last year when the St. Mary’s student complained about his sexually attacking her, she who committed suicide a week or so later?

Sarah Palin pronounced a pox on all their houses.

People of Chicago and Cook County, does this remind you of you?

Not sure what to make of this, but the commenter makes an interesting point:

Psychologically, and perhaps biologically, women [are] more naturally conservative/paternalistic, and would exchange the uncertainty of liberty for the peace of authority, of course, as long as they were the authority.

One might even go so far as to say that the socialistic welfare state exists mainly because of women’s suffrage. They exhibit this tendency in how they run households and how they try to control their spouses.

Hmmm.

Fr. John Harvey’s conversion story.

Domestic terrorism

 

Oh gosh, Wisconsin had it worse.

Notre Dame coach has to do a better of “managing [his] emotions.”

Oh yes, and trying to keep his players out of the lives (and death) of St. Mary’s girls.

May I count (some of) the ways in which this story is a wreck.

1. The lede: “Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy.” Which politicians? REPUBLICANS. So: Republicans . . . often blame etc. Kevin G. Hall is being either coy about this or feckless or devious.

2. Nine very small companies are named, some of whom cast blame where Kevin Hall says his sample of owners says it should go.

3. Hall lays out the off-cuff, inexpert opinion of some of them in a context that calls for their talking about their own situation. Sloppy.

In sum, he has a thesis based on an anonymously created survey by newsies who know mostly what they read in newspapers (a la Will Rogers) on which their story is based that doesn’t always back up their “surprising” findings.

MOREOVER, Chi Trib gives it an entire page (p. 3) of its big-for-them five-page business section. Read it yourself.