Archive for August, 2009
aimai 1, Klein 0
Hey, the Greenwald “acolyte” Joe Klein mocked was longtime Balloon-Juice commenter aimai of No More Mister Nice Guy Blog (via Atrios)! Last week I went to a cookout on the beach here with some old friends (Sausages and seafood, but no cocktail weenies!) Every year they do a cookout, and then a birthday party, and [...]
August 31, 2009
· 
Angry DougJ · 
86 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media
Pre-Enlightenment nation
I’m guessing this high-school is a feeder for Regent U: T-shirts worn by the Smith-Cotton High School band have evolved into controversy among parents. The shirts, which were designed to promote the band’s fall program, are light gray and feature an image of a monkey progressing through stages and eventually emerging as a man. Each [...]
August 31, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 58 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
You Have to Be Kidding Me
Joe Klein on why Glenn Greenwald is not a serious person: For the past several years, Greenwald has conducted a persistent, malicious campaign to distort who I am and where I stand. He is a mean-spirited, graceless bully. During that time, I have never seen him write a positive sentence about the US military, which [...]
August 31, 2009
· John Cole · 115 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Media
It’s just a matter of time
Right now, it’s still okay for journalists to make fun of Glenn Beck. But if he keeps his ratings up for much longer, it won’t be. BriWi will be calling into his show and saying that Beck has actually yet to get the credit he is due, comedians will be censured for making fun of [...]
August 31, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 24 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
Monday Night Open Thread
This gave me a laugh: Talk amongst yourselves. *** Update *** I’m not sure how many of you get the National Geographic channel, but at 9 pm there is a two hour special debunking all the 9/11 truther stuff.
August 31, 2009
· John Cole · 195 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Damned Busybodies
Picture via Yet another reason I have no interest in organized religion- this long and tedious discussion at the American Spectator examining whether or not Ted Kennedy was a good Catholic. Religion isn’t so much about God and spirituality and your fellow man for these wankers, it is just another competition and another way to [...]
August 31, 2009
· John Cole · 86 Comments
Posted in: Religion
Coffee Talk
Ran out of coffee this morning, so I ran to the store. I was in a rush, they were out of Peet’s, so I grabbed a thing of Seattle’s Best Saturday Blend. This may be the worst coffee I have ever had, and I have had Army coffee. Not only is it bad, it is [...]
August 31, 2009
· John Cole · 125 Comments
Posted in: Food
We kill the beast, kill it
Bloggers are supposed to hate Matt Bai, but I can’t remember why. I generally like his pieces and this one is no exception: For all the shouting that has dominated these town hall meetings on health care lately, they have yielded a few important insights. The first is that the town hall itself has probably [...]
August 31, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 61 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Dirty Jobs
Another busy day at the Atlantic…
August 31, 2009
· John Cole · 36 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, General Stupidity, Going Galt
The War With China Starts on 24 September
Excellent news: Yep, you heard that right: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will travel to Hong Kong for her first commercial speaking engagement, a keynote address at the CLSA Investors’ Forum September 23. Given that foreign policy was a soft spot for Palin during the 2008 campaign, this will give her a chance to boost [...]
August 31, 2009
· John Cole · 38 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
DougJ’s earlier post today on Cheney reminded me of this article from Walter Pincus the other day: Morale has sagged at the CIA following the release of additional portions of an inspector general’s review of the agency’s interrogation program and the announcement that the Justice Department would investigate possible abuses by interrogators, according to former [...]
August 31, 2009
· John Cole · 43 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Cox and bow-ties
Even though I find them both relatively amusing, there’s something deeply sickening about the success of Ana Marie Cox and Tucker Carlson. Neither is a reporter. Neither knows anything about policy or about how government works. Yet they’re on tv in quasi-serious settings more or less constantly. So this kind of cracked me up: NYC: [...]
August 31, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 66 Comments
Posted in: I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To
What are insurance premiums premia like in Galt’s Gulch?
Krugman today: That’s especially true for health care, where growing spending has made the vested interests far more powerful than they were in Nixon’s day. The health insurance industry, in particular, saw its premiums go from 1.5 percent of G.D.P. in 1970 to 5.5 percent in 2007, so that a once minor player has become [...]
August 31, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 60 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Domestic Affairs, Politics
Tears of a torturer
For someone so enamored of enhanced interrogation techniques, Dick Cheney sure is a sensitive guy: “I guess the other thing that offends the hell out of me, frankly, Chris, is we had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from Al Qaeda. The approach of [...]
August 31, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 67 Comments
Posted in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
Open Thread
Because I care.
August 31, 2009
· John Cole · 70 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
