Archive for January, 2010
Early Morning Open Thread: Lexiconning
I have spent some more hours happily OCDing through the Lexicon, adding attributions, cleaning up links, and including such neologisms as PTDB, Green Balloon Juice, Teabuggers, Moderation (Your Comment Is Awaiting)—linked the WP Codex spam list there—and Firebagger: Firebagger – Unfortunate portmanteau of FDL ‘Firepup’ and ‘Teabagger’, possibly coined by Firedoglake commenter Knoxville in December [...]
January 29, 2010
· 
Anne Laurie · 
112 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Open Thread, Site Maintenance
Chinese walls
This is pretty interesting. A Washington Post reporter wrote a post that criticized DC school chancellor Michelle Rhee’s cozy relationship with the Washington Post editorial board. The post was taken off the site and the reporter was called on the carpet. So much for those Chinese walls between the editorial board and the news staff. [...]
January 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 76 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Media
Ain’t nothing like the real thing
This is going into tomorrow’s Washington Post reporter chat, pretty close to word-for-word: Isn’t it fascinating that the lengthy, amplified, magnified speech of the most powerful man in the world with his big captive audience — in the magnificent room and in smaller rooms all over the country — are outweighed by one man’s headshake [...]
January 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 101 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, Hoot-Smalley
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
Take it away, Bad Horse’s Filly: Really? Another week has come and gone? It’s been a busy one, a productive one, but it went by too quickly. Because my schedule has been a bit crazy, you’ll notice someone has joined the What’s 4 Dinner Solutions’ team to help out – JeffreyW has already added some [...]
January 28, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 70 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Dog Blogging, Open Thread
Spirits in the night
I went to a New York State artisanal spirits tasting this afternoon. I know next to nothing about hard liquor, so I learned a lot about distillation. I still don’t understand the difference between the tails, and the head, and the heart, but at least now I understand why vodka gets distilled to 190 proof [...]
January 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 52 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, wine blogging
Go for the jugular
Personally, I don’t have a problem with Sam Alito mouthing “not true” when Obama said the SCOTUS ruling could open the door to an influx of campaign money from foreign donors. If the president bitch-slapped me on national tv, I might mouth something too. I do have a problem with the disingenuous right-wing push-back on [...]
January 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 187 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Domestic Affairs, Good News For Conservatives
Open Thread
You all fill them so fast, I thought I would put another one up before the night shift checks in. I see helicopter Ben got another term. Thoughts?
January 28, 2010
· John Cole · 146 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
An Odd Calm
Granted, I am all hopped up on pain meds and I am ignoring the news and just icing my shoulder while watching Chuck S2 and Mad Men S1, so maybe I am just imagining this, but left blogistan seems to be a little bit less angry at Obama than the past few weeks, and some [...]
January 28, 2010
· John Cole · 233 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
The liberal New York Times
Here’s the Times panel on Obama’s SOTU (via TBogg): * Jeff Shesol, a speechwriter to President Bill Clinton * Lisa Schiffren, a speechwriter to Vice President Dan Quayle * Alan Schroeder, journalism professor * William F. Gavin, a speechwriter to President Richard Nixon * Jonah Goldberg, National Review
January 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 81 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives
“Clintonian”
This is just sad, from the Dickwhisperer: Rochester, NY: Listless is right! Where is the fire that we so often heard from the previous president? Where are the memorable lines “axis of evil”, “Mission Accomplished”, “git r done”? Can we attribute the lack of powerful rhetoric here to the fact that your brilliant colleague Michael [...]
January 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 139 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives
Another Open Thread
Apparently Apple released a product yesterday.
January 28, 2010
· Tim F. · 112 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Mass Effect 2
So how is it? For obvious reasons, Im unable to enjoy it atm.
January 28, 2010
· John Cole · 90 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture
Status Quo
Well, I was hoping that Obama would outline a clear plan towards wrapping up HCR that could rally Congress to finish the job and move on. I feared that Obama would pare back expectations with some plan involving splitting the bill or negotiating with Snowe. As far as I can tell neither happened. Things could [...]
January 28, 2010
· Tim F. · 49 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority
Just Making Shit Up
This is kind of shocking, and then again, it isn’t surprising at all: Well, it’s official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about. Kiriakou, a 15-year veteran of the agency’s intelligence analysis and operations [...]
January 28, 2010
· John Cole · 44 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Torture
Morning Open Thread
Not sure what is going on, but I went to bed miserable, in excruciating pain, and at some point in the night it broke like a fever. In just a few hours of sleep, I have gone from a 8-9 on the pain scale to about a 4-5. I call that a win. Now that [...]
January 28, 2010
· John Cole · 116 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
