Archive for June, 2009
Pete Campbell lives
It’s good to know we live in a meritocracy: In one e-mail exchange, University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman forced the law school to admit an unqualified applicant backed by then- Gov. Rod Blagojevich while seeking a promise from the governor’s go-between that five law school graduates would get jobs. The applicant, a relative of [...]
June 26, 2009
· 
Angry DougJ · 
16 Comments
Posted in: Other
Riddle Me This
For reasons I can not understand in the least, farm-raised salmon, all pink from dye and jam packed with PCB’s, continues to be a dollar or two more expensive than wild caught salmon. For the life of me, I can not figure out why. And farm-raised Atlantic salmon is even more expensive than the other [...]
June 26, 2009
· John Cole · 95 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Prepare for an anti-Obama Shit Fit
This will get ugly: The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations. Such an order would embrace claims by former president [...]
June 26, 2009
· John Cole · 96 Comments
Posted in: The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Bathsheba smiles
The latest from Sanford cracked me up: I have been doing a lot of soul searching on that front. What I find interesting is the story of David, and the way in which he fell mightily, he fell in very very significant ways. But then picked up the pieces and built from there. TPM’s Zach [...]
June 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 75 Comments
Posted in: Humor, Republican Stupidity
A Comparison
James Joyner thinks the coverage of MJ’s death is over the top, and I completely agree. I will, however, note that while the MJ coverage is over the top, it still pales in comparison to the three day self-absorbed wankfest that followed Tim Russert’s death. Also, via Michael Calderone, we learn that Meet the Press [...]
June 26, 2009
· John Cole · 95 Comments
Posted in: Media, Popular Culture
Friday Beer Blogging: Trippel Threat
Last month I decided to brew two batches more or less at the same time so that I’d have something with which to welcome some friends to their new house and new position in Michigan. As soon as the pale ale went into secondary fermentation, I rinsed the primary tub and put a Belgian Trippel [...]
June 26, 2009
· Tim F. · 76 Comments
Posted in: Beer Blogging
Another Crooked Detroit Democrat
And this time a well-connected one: Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond. U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said, “The defendant now stands convicted.” The one count of conspiring to commit bribery is punishable for up to five years [...]
June 26, 2009
· John Cole · 49 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Democratic Stupidity
Good news for Mitt Romney
It always is, in Marc Ambinder’s world: John Ensign and Mark Sanford are revealing TMI. Sarah Palin is struggling with her state legislature. John Huntsman, Jr. is headed to China. Mike Huckabee is ubiquitous. Haley Barbour is meeting with strategists in smoky back rooms. Tim Pawlenty has to get through the rest of his term.[....] [...]
June 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 96 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Republican Stupidity
Any Day Now
I understand that the wheels of justice grind slowly, but for the love of everything holy could the delicate and genteel members of the Minnesota court please get off their asses and issue a ruling in the Coleman/Franken case? It has now been almost a month since they heard the case, and the state and [...]
June 26, 2009
· John Cole · 46 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Politics
The Family
Here’s a bit more about the group that funds C Street, from Jeffrey Sharlet: Ivanwald, which sits at the end of Twenty-fourth Street North in Arlington, Virginia, is known only to its residents and to the members and friends of the organization that sponsors it, a group of believers who refer to themselves as “the [...]
June 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 65 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
Another SCOTUS Ruling
This is interesting: Crime laboratory reports may not be used against criminal defendants at trial unless the analysts responsible for creating them give testimony and subject themselves to cross-examination, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 5-to-4 decision. The ruling was an extension of a 2004 decision that breathed new life into the Sixth Amendment’s [...]
June 26, 2009
· John Cole · 54 Comments
Posted in: The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
C Street
One of the things from the Sanford presser that I didn’t understand at the time was his mention of C Street. The AP had a piece about C Street a few years ago: Six members of Congress live in a $1.1 million Capitol Hill town house that is subsidized by a secretive religious organization, tax [...]
June 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 38 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Burkean bells
The Last Social Safety Net
Between the comments on the ‘Rethinking Retirement’ post this morning, and the ‘Say What’/gay-marriage comments this evening… it occurs to me that for a lot of Americans, marriage has become the last social safety net. The heavy hand of tradition—I’m talking law, not religion, because the ‘religious’ component to marriage has been secondary to its [...]
June 25, 2009
· Anne Laurie · 64 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Politics
Open Thread
Off the Wall or Thriller? *** Update *** There is no point in trying to be funny on the intertrons when the master still breathes.
June 25, 2009
· John Cole · 216 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Say What?
Sullivan gives this Mike Potemra quote a “Yglesias Award” nomination, which is given to “writers, politicians, columnists or pundits who actually criticize their own side, make enemies among political allies, and generally risk something for the sake of saying what they believe.” The quote: “As someone who favors gay marriage, I think this Sanford scandal [...]
June 25, 2009
· John Cole · 64 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
