Archive for November, 2009
Always Room for Fearmongering in the Idiocracy
Some days I’ve about had it with this country. The absurd over-reaction to the WH dinner crashers was way too much the last few days, but I just saw a ten minute piece on CNN that treated this like it was an enormous deal, and I can’t take much more of this kind of idiocy. [...]
November 27, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
129 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!
He’s Talking To You, Chuck
Unserious person and DFH James Fallow is being all sorts of unvillagelike and calling you out, Chuck Todd: Seriously, when does an official part of the chattering class—one of the weekend talkers, someone from the leading newspapers—look back on these past two weeks in journalism’s effort to represent reality and ask how the dominant narrative [...]
November 27, 2009
· John Cole · 67 Comments
Posted in: Media
Open Thread
By request. BTW- I think I want to mull some cider tomorrow. Any tips or suggestions or advice?
November 27, 2009
· John Cole · 46 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
What Is Good For Priests is Good for Filmmakers
Bernard-Henri Levy: The decision to free Roman Polanski is a wise decision. It honors the people who took it. It shows that the arguments developed by the movie director’s partisans—including those published on the French review’s website of La Règle du Jeu—have finally been fruitful. It shows that Polanski’s French lawyers, Hervé Témime and Georges [...]
November 27, 2009
· John Cole · 189 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Movies
Because the right
Bobo (link fixed) has a piece today about Bruce Springsteen. Shorter Bobo: I really love Bruce Springsteen and feel that I learned from listening to his stories of “teenage couples out on a desperate lark, workers struggling as the mills close down, and drifters on the wrong side of the law”. George Will once composed [...]
November 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 90 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Good News For Conservatives, Music
Just Lucky Timing, I Guess
The Irish government releases a report on sex abuse in the Catholic church: But rather than helping the victims, the church was concerned only with “the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church, and the preservation of its assets,” said the 700-page report, prepared by a group [...]
November 27, 2009
· John Cole · 33 Comments
Posted in: Assholes
The Thanksgiving Sandwich
And now, the best lunch of the year: the Thanksgiving sandwich. Take a baguette, cut it open and add some slices of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, cranberries, and top with some gravy. That is right. You are putting stuffing and gravy inside tasty bread. Wrap it in tinfoil, throw it in the oven for [...]
November 27, 2009
· John Cole · 88 Comments
Posted in: Food
Open Thread
Matt S, Fly Fishing for Bass. JR, The Mall. Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one. Click on the photos for [...]
November 27, 2009
· Tim F. · 5 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Photo blogging
Shopping Madness
How many of you actually intend to go shopping today? *** Update *** What I thought. Most of you are like me and could not be dragged kicking and screaming near a store today. Which reminded me- do any of you remember a couple years back when there was an online call to action to [...]
November 27, 2009
· John Cole · 124 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Who runs Washington
Via TPM, stories like this are important: But lobbyists and many of the businesses they represent say K Street is being unfairly demonized by a White House intent on scoring political points with scandal-weary voters. They warn that the latest policy will severely handicap federal regulators, who rely heavily on advisory boards for technical advice [...]
November 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 53 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Good News For Conservatives
Open Thread
Cranberry dishes are underrated. Also, I love that the NFL always reminds us every Thanksgiving to be thankful we are not Lions fans.
November 26, 2009
· John Cole · 114 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Speaking of Stupid People
One of my newest guilty pleasures is a show on A&E called The First 48. At any rate, what cracks me up is how stupid so many of the criminals are- wear gloves and leave no evidence whatsoever at a murder scene, and then get caught because you used the victim’s cell phone to call [...]
November 26, 2009
· John Cole · 126 Comments
Posted in: Television
Giving Her Handlers Fits
You have to hand it to whoever runs Sarah Palin’s operation. They know that she is putty in the hands of spoof comedians. It’s like a feeding frenzy for Colbert wannabes; just ask an innocently worded question and let her mouth run. Just like the McCain campaign, her current handlers clearly recognize the wisdom of [...]
November 26, 2009
· Tim F. · 77 Comments
Posted in: Teabagger Stupidity
Open Thread
elmo, Boats on Lake George. Mammoth Lakes, CA. Rob Kleeman, Indiana Sunrise. Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one. Click on [...]
November 26, 2009
· Tim F. · 18 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Photo blogging
Adverse Selection
I hope that the rest of the health care bill is freaking awesome. I really do. Because without some major changes the public option is going to suck. What will stop insurers from dumping expensive undesirables into a public ghetto? A guilty conscience? An unprotected public option will do one of two things. Either it [...]
November 26, 2009
· Tim F. · 67 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, Domestic Affairs
