Archive for September, 2009
Wednesday Night Open Thread- There Will Be Blood Edition
By request. A picture of Lily and Tunch: Not all inter-species snorgling attempts end well… This is your real open thread.
September 30, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
236 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
What Atrios Said
Sorry for stepping on the open thread, but I agree 100%: I think our society has become a bit hysterical about teen sexuality, and that age limits and punishments for statutory rape have, in some states, started to get a bit exteme even if such relationships are inappropriate. But the undisputed facts of this case [...]
September 30, 2009
· John Cole · 270 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Domestic Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Movies
Cat Food Open Thread
Long day. Question for you all. I’m thinking about moving Tunch to all wet food rather than the kibble, because even though we have been dieting for a year we have only lost 3/4 of a lb. Many of you said your cats were much leaner and more active on an all wet diet, so [...]
September 30, 2009
· John Cole · 84 Comments
Posted in: Cat Blogging, Open Thread
What Avedon Said
This: In other news, it turns out the death penalty in Florida costs $51m a year more than just holding convicted killers for life. But, hey, that’s pocket change compared to the certainty that killing people is good. Of course, I am sure you all know the response from the death penalty crowd- “Get rid [...]
September 30, 2009
· John Cole · 30 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Tough Times on the Wingnut Welfare Circuit
Aww, shucks: Palin’s bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: “The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot.” Maybe she, Carrie Prejean, and Joe the Plumber can go as a [...]
September 30, 2009
· John Cole · 74 Comments
Posted in: Starbursts
A kinder, gentler coup
Maybe I’m way off base on this, but in my opinion, the Conor Friedersdorfs and Nicole Wallaces of the right aren’t so different from coupmeister John L. Perry. The idea of David Petraeus sweeping in and becoming president in 2012 isn’t unethical or unconstitutional, but I can’t help but think that Friedersdorf and Wallace simply [...]
September 30, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 151 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
Don’t call it a comeback
Bret Stephens of the WSJ says neoconservatism is making come back…even though he can’t say what neoconservatism is: None of this is to say that neoconservatism represents some kind of infallible doctrine—or that it’s even a doctrine. Neocons have erred in overestimating the U.S. public’s willingness to engage in long struggles on behalf of other [...]
September 30, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 59 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
Georgia On My Mind
No one could have predicted: A nine-month European Union investigation into the 2008 war in the Caucasus has concluded that Georgia triggered the conflict, but that Russia prepared the ground for war to break out and broke international law by invading Georgia as a whole. Conclusions to the roughly 1,000 page report, released on Wednesday [...]
September 30, 2009
· John Cole · 27 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
Attention, “Fiscal Conservatives”
You would think that this would be the topic of some debate: In a bid to wrangle concessions from the Blue Dog Coalition on healthcare reform, House leaders Thursday released CBO estimates for liberals’ preferred version of the public option that show $85 billion more in savings than for the version the Blue Dogs prefer. [...]
September 30, 2009
· John Cole · 126 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
How The Village Thinks
I know I always put my health at risk when I read the Moustache of Understanding, but sometimes I can not resist. Like today: Sometimes I wonder whether George H.W. Bush, president “41,” will be remembered as our last “legitimate” president. The right impeached Bill Clinton and hounded him from Day 1 with the bogus [...]
September 30, 2009
· John Cole · 130 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media
Late Night Open Thread: More Lexiconning
So, here are the proposed additions to the BJLex I’ve collected since Saturday: Banana Republican Brooks Brothers Riot Calvinball FTW (add as a synonym to ‘This’) He-Man Woman-Hater’s Club – Chris Matthews, Beltway Chapter President Heh, Indeed Millblogger Moderate – someone who gets all their news from network television Movement Conservative (Adult Diaper Division) Poutrage [...]
September 30, 2009
· Anne Laurie · 116 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Open Thread
Tech-illiterate Bleg
Since I know there are professional developers out there, a question. Starting Sunday morning, whenever I attempt to Edit the BJ Lexicon, I’ve been getting the same message: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/jcole1/public_html/bal/wp-includes/general-template.php on line 1524 I’ve tried it on two separate systems, so [...]
September 30, 2009
· Anne Laurie · 37 Comments
Posted in: Science and Technology, Site Maintenance
Seriously, WTF?
You know, when I used the phrase Banana Republicans in the past, I didn’t really think it would come to this: There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic. America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup [...]
September 29, 2009
· John Cole · 277 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Going Galt, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Outrage
Open Thread
Cold here- about 50 degrees. Thirty degree drop in just a few days, so I am couchbound watching Dexter Season 3. When does Season 2 of Chuck come out on DVD?
September 29, 2009
· John Cole · 179 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
The Polanski defense
Amy Sullivan and a bunch of other theocons write that it’s unfair that some pedophile priests have to go to jail when Roman Polanski doesn’t. That seems absurd to me: The new 2,600-page report on physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in Catholic-run Irish schools is “a map of an Irish hell,” said the Irish Times [...]
September 29, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 111 Comments
Posted in: Religion
