We have it correct. He drugged a 13 year old and plied her with champagne. I’m not sure if that is rape or rape, rape, but is isn’t something a 40 year old man should be doing.

And why is Debra Winger all of a sudden trying to substantiate rumors that the Officer Gentlemen Dude dropped her on her head at some point in time?

“Despite the philistine nature of the collusion that has now occurred, we came to honor Roman Polanski as a great artist. We hope today this latest order will be dropped. It is based on a three-decade-old case that is all but dead except for a minor technicality.”

How horrible that a bunch of people think it’s wrong to fuck a 13 year old, after feeding her Quaaludes and Champagne, and they have gotten together to wreck the life of a genius who has suffered so much already.

And this, giving me my full laugh for the weekend

Imprisoned director Roman Polanski should have been warned that he faced an international arrest warrant before he arrived in Switzerland, the country’s former justice minister said Friday.

Christoph Blocher said a warning would have been fairer to the 76-year-old filmmaker.

So, what now we warn fugitives? What a joke.

Eugene, lately one of the only WAPO columns worth reading, asks in Hollywood’s Shame ,,,,,,,

Could it be that the conservative culture warriors who portray Hollywood as a cesspool of moral bankruptcy have been right all along?

He continues by saying “not really”, but thinks the culture warriors may have a point.

Yea, I know this is getting repetitive, but it’s stuck in my throat, like a dick in the throat of some half conscious teenage girl.

peace

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Reform without a public option can still remedy a lot of these ills, as long as there’s enough regulation. But it’s not clear there will be, which is why Rockefeller is speaking out–and why he should be.

What Rockefeller Understands Johnathan Cohn.

Bad Congressmen. They are like dogs. If you feed them, and obviously the insurance industry is feeding them, they obey. The insurance industry big shots are sitting down to their — not on the healthy diet list, French chef served — dinners this evening, sighing with relief, and doing a impertinent yet malicious fist bump. “We did it again, phew that was close, a bottle of 1945 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild Jeroboam, if you please waiter”.

Addendum: I found this blog saying something which may end up true. Showing that the insurance companies are the only ones laughing this quote says it all.

I actually think we are going to get a reform that is both worse than the status quo and worse than a pure single payer system.

Kudos to our Congress!

As I understand it, insurance companies will not be able to refuse to cover some one, nor will they be able to charge high risk people a premium that reflects their risk. The price won’t be uniform, but the maximum variation will be well below what it would take to correctly price the variation in risks.

As I noted before, this will make premiums for healthy people extra high. And as the WSJ pointed out yesterday, at least on the margin, it will make healthy people want to hold off from getting any insurance until they are actually sick.

Problem solved, you say?

Ahh, but now it appears that the third leg of the trinity will be rule that it will be illegal to not have insurance!

So young healthy people will be forced to buy way overpriced (relative to their risk) insurance. Plus if said young healthy people make good money, they can look forward to paying more taxes to subsidize the purchase of said insurance by others.

Guaranteed Issue, Community Rating, Individual Mandate. They sound so reasonable and innocuous, but they are freakin’ lethal.

Other Chain Yankers:

Love that some film critic is questioning the ethics of the DA in the Polanski case, and only 1 WAPO columnist out of 3 not defending him. Thank you Eugene.

While were on ethics, I don’t care if the Polanski case is politically motivated. It doesn’t make Polanski any less guilty, nor does his age, or his films. His genius means nothing to me. I could have lived without his films. We gain nothing by them, at least not more than we lose by letting someone who raped, and drugged, a 13 year old go free, because genius, celebrity, entitlement, and the support of various film industry persona, makes some think he should.

Peace

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