Jake Savin

“Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí

October 11, 2004

  • Josh Marshall: The Post-Modern President

    Josh Marshall writes in the September issue of Washington Monthly: “Almost all of Bush’s deceptions have been deployed when he has tried to pass off his preexisting agenda items as solutions to particular problems with which, for the most part, they have no real connection. That’s when the unverifiable assertion comes in handy. Many of… Continue reading

  • The ‘Starve the Beast’ theory

    I was talking with my friend Brad yesterday, while waiting to go to the airport in Durango. He told me about something called the ‘Starve the Beast’ theory being applied by the Republican party, when it comes to their tax-and-spend implementation — a practice which is oddly opposed to everything their party is supposed to… Continue reading