Archive for February, 2010
Apparently All of Canada is on Acid
Anyone else watching this bizarre closing ceremony? And apparently, Canada is the home of giant beavers. There are jokes a plenty to be made with that one.
February 28, 2010
· 
John Cole · 
180 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Pink and Brown
I guess this is what passes for Republican he-manism in Massachusetts: “We’re in the famous truck,” he pointed out, needlessly. “It’s a regular truck.” Yes and no. As Arianna, the younger of his two daughters, told me, he originally purchased it not so he could haul lumber but so he could attach it to a [...]
February 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 54 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now
I know the answer, but…
I still have to wonder how the Sunday shows could not find a moment to mention that Senator Jim Bunning is obstructing 1.2 million Americans from getting unemployment benefits just to be a dick. One would have thought that this might merit a comment somewhere. On ABC there was ample time to discuss the departure [...]
February 28, 2010
· Dennis G. · 40 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Movies, Open Thread
USA v. Canada Overtime Thread
Wow. And for those of you who do not care about hockey, let me bitch about something else trivial while people all over the world suffer from hurricanes and earthquakes and I lose all perspective about how good my life is, but I just broke another DAMNED CAN OPENER. Link me to the mother of [...]
February 28, 2010
· John Cole · 279 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Guns Don’t Kill People
I will never, ever, ever understand the American gun fetish, and I spent a number of years in the military: A gun instructor accidently shot a student in the foot Saturday during an NRA class to receive certification to carry a concealed weapon, Orlando police said. Robert Frauman Jr., 50, was taken to Florida Hospital [...]
February 28, 2010
· John Cole · 93 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity
Welcome to Washington
Steve Benen flags what he calls a “a surprisingly long chat about Desiree Rogers” on whatever Stuffy’s old Sunday morning is called now. Here’s a brief summary (I’m leaving out the parts where Cokie Roberts sounds reasonable because I don’t believe they’re real): DONALDSON: People who work for the president understand or should understand their [...]
February 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 45 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now
USA v. Canada Hockey Open Thread
My God. If Barry Melrose and Liberace were to mate, the spawn would look like Don Cherry just did a moment ago.
February 28, 2010
· John Cole · 181 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Speaking of Niall Ferguson
The Washington Monthly did an excellent, ultimately sympathetic portrayal of Niall Ferguson a few years back that is well worth reading. It sums up the general “conservative intellectual” thing quite well. His influence comes from his dramatic, sweeping intellectual style, whose theme is, more or less, “Everything you thought you knew about history is wrong.” [...]
February 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 69 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives
CBS Sunday Morning
Have at it! ***Update*** Or maybe not. Comcast has now decided I no longer deserve CBS, either. I’m now down to basically AMC, USA, SYFY, and HBO. And there is a thirty minute hold to get through.
February 28, 2010
· John Cole · 110 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Early Morning Open Thread
I liked Cyndi Lauper when we were both pushing thirty, and I like her 25 years later: She is still doing “All Through the Night” in concert, although not quite in the same style: Fair warning: Unless you have made peace with your memories of the 80s, do not YouTube the search string ‘pipers pit [...]
February 28, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 43 Comments
Posted in: Music, Open Thread
Finally one of Abramoff’s Congressmen is in jail…
Too bad it is only former Congressman John Sweeney and too bad that it is for drunk driving and not the crimes he committed in office. Still, the little weasel is behind bars and that can’t be bad. Back in 2006 I wrote about Sweeney’s involvement with Abramoff over at the GOS. And later that [...]
February 28, 2010
· Dennis G. · 25 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Open Thread
Complex adaptive systems
I’m never sure if it’s worth blogging about things like this, but sometimes I suddenly see commentators, usually conservative commentators, using a phrase I’ve never heard before and I wonder if it’s going to become part of their standard shtick. A few weeks I read Jim Manzi argue that we shouldn’t try to do anything [...]
February 27, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 77 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now
How Krugman became K-Thug
Just finished the New Yorker Krugman piece. I realize that what the world needs now is another Bob Somerby like I need a hole in my head, but I’m always struck by what a watershed event the 2000 election was: It was the 2000 election campaign that finally radicalized him. He’d begun writing his column [...]
February 27, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 54 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now
Blerg
For some reason, Comcast has decided I do not need half of my channels, including all of the ones with the Olympics. I do have Sci-Fi, though, and was wondering if anyone had seen Beyond Sherwood Forest. Also, here is another open thread.
February 27, 2010
· John Cole · 121 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Balloon Juice Store Update
An update on the Balloon Juice store: I have just learned that the commissions generated from the Balloon Juice Online Store for Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue (with Little Bitsy being one of our shining star rescues) have passed the $500 mark for the first two weeks of being online. Thanks to the loyal Balloon Juice [...]
February 27, 2010
· John Cole · 70 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
