Archive for May, 2009
Before You Abuse, Criticize, and Accuse
Building on DougJ’s post about Lanny Davis reciting nonsensical right-wing talking points, the whole silliness of the empathy outrage has really been pretty funny. Aside from the fact that archives show both Samuel Alito and George H. W. Bush waxing eloquent about the benefits of empathy, the notion that you can take Obama’s appeal for [...]
May 28, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
99 Comments
Posted in: Politics
Oh, Lanny
Sic semper from Fox contributors: Some Democrats and political analysts are urging the White House to shift course and concede that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made an error when she suggested in 2001 that Hispanic women would make better judges than white men. “She misspoke,” said Lanny Davis, a White House lawyer and spokesman [...]
May 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 68 Comments
Posted in: Media
Tragically Unhip
I suppose I am dating myself, but I honest-to-goodness remember a time when Dennis Miller was actually kind of funny: Of course, that was a really long time ago. (via)
May 28, 2009
· John Cole · 119 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
Open Thread
I had dijon mustard on my sandwich for lunch, and it was delicious. I also felt a strange urge to read Chomsky afterwards.
May 28, 2009
· John Cole · 172 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
We’re On a Road to Nowhere
This is what punditry looks like on autopilot: In the case of the Sotomayor appointment, while she’s likely to coast through the Senate given the Democrats’ sheer numbers, the American public needs to understand why this is such a radical pick. The Obama/Sotomayor idea that judges, instead of making impartial rulings based on the law [...]
May 28, 2009
· John Cole · 85 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
Their own personal Jesus
I guess the Republican 11th commandment trumps the Bible’s 2nd: And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” — Mark 14:30 (ESV) [.....]The incidents of late with Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Dick Cheney, and others is why I raise this. [...]
May 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 57 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Clown Shoes
It Just Never Stops
Apparently now the new meme du jour floating around the WingNet is that Chrysler dealerships were closed in such a manner as to punish Republicans. Anyone want to bet how this is going to turn out? Also, I’ll just note that the same people now screaming about this were, just a few weeks ago, screaming [...]
May 28, 2009
· John Cole · 66 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
Reading Recommendation (Not Political)
Because there are a number of Terry Pratchett fans here, and some suspense /mystery readers as well, I would like to recommend Castle Freeman Jr.’s novel ALL THAT I HAVE. It’s a little book, only 165 pages, because that’s exactly enough pages to tell the story (stories) it wants to tell. Imagine Sam Vimes as [...]
May 28, 2009
· Anne Laurie · 71 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture
Hangin Tough
I just wanted to take a moment and let you all know that we will have a new front page poster starting soon, and the newest member of the staff is frequent commenter “Anne Laurie.” She’s feisty and opinionated, loves animals, and I’ve been a fan of her comments for some time now. Probably far [...]
May 27, 2009
· John Cole · 104 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance
Suck on this, accountants
I’ve been waiting for Taibbi to comment some of the recent Friedman-related news, but I think we’ve waited long enough now (from a recent New Yorker piece via Michael Roston): Thomas Friedman, the Times’ chief foreign affairs columnist, lauded the efforts that Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., has made to keep the newsroom intact, saying, “I just [...]
May 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 34 Comments
Posted in: Media
Open Thread
Chuck rules. Just thought I would throw that out there. Sure, it is silly, and immature, and dorky, and that is what I like about it. I’m actually having more fun with this show than I have in a while. My brother and I agree that one scene from season one may be some of [...]
May 27, 2009
· John Cole · 87 Comments
Posted in: Television
Prop 8 To Undergo Equal Protection Test
Jonathan Turley reports that Prop 8 will receive some scrutiny in federal court, and some heavyweights are on the team: Theodore B. Olson, the U.S. solicitor general under Bush and his lawyer in Bush v. Gore, and David Boies, who represented former vice president Al Gore in that case, have joined forces to challenge Proposition [...]
May 27, 2009
· John Cole · 83 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
They’ve Gone Plaid
The evidence keeps piling up against Sotormayor, and now President Gingrich has joined Tom “Nuke Mecca” Tancredo and Rush Limbaugh in deciding she is a racist: On Wednesday, Gingrich tweeted: “Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman.’ new racism is no better than old [...]
May 27, 2009
· John Cole · 76 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity
An enigma wrapped inside a riddle, shrouded in an American flag
Modern conservatism is nothing if not self-contradictory. It stands athwart history yelling “stop”, but it would never interfere with the free market forces that drive history. It worships Burke and Oakeshott, but it distrusts anyone who’s read a non-Regenery book in the past year. It believes that Ivy League pedigree is a true mark of [...]
May 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 66 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
She never spoke Spanish to me
Things just keep getting worse for Sotomayor: Sotomayor also claimed: “For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir — rice, beans and pork — that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events.” This has prompted some Republicans to muse privately about [...]
May 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 92 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Burkean bells
