Archive for June, 2009
Open Thread
I feel compelled to blog, but I have nothing to say, which, when I think about it, really sums up the history of this website. I will point out this bit of agreement with BTD over at Talk Left. Right now, I am just done with the Sunday talk shows. Right now, they serve no [...]
June 28, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
115 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Milbank to Pitney: You’re a dick
From Ana Marie Cox’s twitter: Sources say that at the end of the Dana/Nico segment, Dana says, “You’re such a dick.” Wishful thinking? Can anyone confirm? (link) @HowardKurtz Nico stands by the quote. Obviously, you both were there. (link)
June 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 106 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media
Speaking Of The Washington Post Getting Things Wrong
Some editor should apologize for this one. This Time, Stakes Are Higher for Americans They’ve met in the World Cup, Gold Cup, Copa America and just 10 days ago in the first round of the Confederations Cup. The settings have ranged from the creaky Yale Bowl to a pretty seaside town in Uruguay, from the [...]
June 28, 2009
· Tim F. · 54 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Pitney versus Milbank
Via Atrios, here’s Pitney smacking down Milbank: Milbank tries to ask Pitney a question about Bush calling on a Fox reporter, but asks it in an inaccurate way. So, let’s pose Milbank’s question as he should have asked it: If there was a Fox reporter who was in contact with a number of Iraqis (possibly [...]
June 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 73 Comments
Posted in: Media
No Criticizing The Royalty
Musing a little more on Dan Froomkin’s new independence, DougJ’s post below makes a compelling case that Dan Froomkin did not have an ideological problem so much as he kept stepping on the beat of the Post’s media critic Howard Kurtz. In fact one should feel at least a little sympathy for Kurtz’s position. When [...]
June 28, 2009
· Tim F. · 45 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Media
CBS Sunday Morning
Have at it. Also, Jack Russell Terrier puppies meet a Great Pyrenees:
June 28, 2009
· John Cole · 106 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
More on the firing of Froomkin
Via Matt Yglesias, the Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander weighs in on the firing of Froomkin: First, it’s not about ideology. My original Omblog post quoted Hiatt as saying Froomkin’s “political orientation was not a factor in our decision.” In my discussions with Froomkin, he has not cited ideology as the primary reason. And several [...]
June 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 55 Comments
Posted in: Media
Saturday Night Open Thread
I’m exhausted. This is an open thread, sort of, but it should be recognized it is a Sanford free zone. Also, just a couple more weeks before Steelers camp.
June 27, 2009
· John Cole · 234 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Open Thread
Some pics of Lily from our morning walk, and we don’t even bother with a leash anymore. I just carry it and use it when we are around people in the public areas or when I see someone coming down the path being dragged by a dog they obviously have no control over. Here she [...]
June 27, 2009
· John Cole · 272 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Open Thread
Call the waaambulance
It’s hard out there for a heath care profiteer: The Senate Finance Committee is pressuring hospitals and insurers to follow the lead of the pharmaceutical industry and pony up to help pay for health reform, industry insiders say. “They are shaking people down, and it’s fair to say that includes a broad range of health [...]
June 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 98 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
It’s Getting Hot In Here
Whatever it takes, I guess: A former mayor found sitting naked and holding a beer at a Rabun County campsite told police he wasn’t the same naked man seen walking around earlier. Mark Musselwhite, 43, said he was hot and had been in the creek, according to a Georgia Department of Natural Resources incident report. [...]
June 27, 2009
· John Cole · 52 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
Climate contrarianism
Get ready for a lot of contrarianism about the cap-and-trade bill. Yglesias has a pretty good take down: I’ve heard some clever people who don’t want to be silly denialists about the threat of climate change, and who don’t want to be silly alarmists about the threat of Waxman-Markey, but who don’t have a self-conception [...]
June 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 33 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Don’t think of an orgy
Cal Thomas on the C Street shuffle: The house on C Street in Washington D.C. referenced by Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina in his stream of consciousness confession of adultery on Wednesday bears no relation to the infamous “little green house on K Street” visited by President Warren Harding and members of his “Ohio [...]
June 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 38 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
Open Thread
By request. Notice how the table cloth print ‘tilts’ to the right. The Belgian started with substantially more gravity… For those homebrewers out there, send me beer pics (portusjacksonii[at]yahoo[dot]com) and I will post them in later open threads. As always, chat about whatever.
June 26, 2009
· Tim F. · 30 Comments
Posted in: Beer Blogging, Other
Snack Attack
Wolverines: Authorities said a couple got into a fight using Cheetos. The Bedford County Sheriff’s Department said a 40-year-old man and 44-year-old woman became involved in a ‘verbal altercation.’ Somehow, the orange puffy snacks were used in the assault. I wonder what their Red State usernames are…
June 26, 2009
· John Cole · 26 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
