Archive for May, 2010
That was fast
Via Atrios, James O’Keefe will be on Good Morning America tomorrow morning. And Politico asks the important question: James O’Keefe will probably end up a wealthy man out of this, with a Regenery book deal and a wingnut welfare sinecure. Who says crime doesn’t pay?
May 31, 2010
· 
Angry DougJ · 
85 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now
NHL Open Thread
I got yelled at for forgetting a Stanley Cup thread the other day, so here ya go.
May 31, 2010
· John Cole · 38 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Good news for Bobby Jindal
Even the liberal New Republic is impressed: Constantly jumping in and out of National Guard helicopters and drawing up plans for additional “burrito levees” and “boudin bags” needed to stop the oil slick from flowing further into his state’s marshes, Jindal has quickly mastered the details of the issue. At a press conference in New [...]
May 31, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 56 Comments
Posted in: Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now
A Look At Group A
France’s coach, Raymond Domenech must have thought that the gods were smiling on him when France emerged in Group A facing the following opponents: Mexico, South Africa and Uruguay. While none of these nations are pushovers, it could have been much worse for Domenech, chiefly if the draw had left them with another tough European [...]
May 31, 2010
· Randinho · 37 Comments
Posted in: Sports
PR Fail
Talk about tone deaf: At least nine fishermen hired by BP to use their boats to help with oil cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico have been hospitalized with serious heath problems, including one who “busted his skull” after collapsing on a dock. When asked about this clear pattern of illnesses of workers who come [...]
May 31, 2010
· John Cole · 29 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Free Markets Solve Everything, General Stupidity
Math for Assholes
Leave it to the NRO to go the extra mile: “One final note on proportionality: Fifteen “peace” activists dead is a tragedy, but they represent only one one-thousandth of the death toll of a French heatwave.” And the number killed on 9/11 was only .00012% of the death toll of Bubonic plague. I guess that [...]
May 31, 2010
· John Cole · 108 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To
Happy Memorial Day
I almost forgot- last Friday my hometown unveiled a new memorial for veterans, and they had a nice little ceremony. My small town has a ton of veterans, and many from WWII and Korea still alive. It was very cool: It says 2009 on the stone, but we just got it last week (a touch [...]
May 31, 2010
· John Cole · 19 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Flotilla Round-Up
I’m really not sure what Israel or her loud-mouthed supporters here in the United States think they achieved by mounting an assault on a Turkish relief vessel in international waters, but the you know what is now officially hitting the fan. Some links: 1.) Turkey vows to send more aid to Gaza, this time guarded [...]
May 31, 2010
· John Cole · 418 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Foreign Affairs, General Stupidity
Open Thread
The entire blogoverse in four panels…
May 31, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 23 Comments
Posted in: Humor, Open Thread
Lacrosse National Championship
Here’s a thread for the three or four of you who care. I’m in the “ANYONE BUT NOTRE DAME” category right now.
May 31, 2010
· John Cole · 47 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Earth tones all over again
I agree that the press is partying like it’s 1999/2000: Ms Dowd’s involvement is fitting, as this may be the sorriest spectacle of content-free public hyperventilation since Al Gore’s earth tones. The difference is that in this case the issue is deadly serious; it’s the public discourse that is puerile. There is plenty of room [...]
May 31, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 64 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now
I learned the truth at seventeen
Marc Ambinder (who has really been tearing it up lately) has a take on the repeal-the-seventeenth craziness that I hadn’t heard before: Two recent Tea Party-backed candidates who had success in beating Washington-designated candidates are quite taken with the idea of repealing the 17th amendment. Ratified in 1913, it provides for the direct election of [...]
May 31, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 81 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley, Politics
Open Thread
Tried desperately to find some good news, and came up short, so here is a crappy open thread for you.
May 31, 2010
· John Cole · 60 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Like the Fonz
I suppose this really is the only way forward with conservation efforts- make it cool: As summer finally arrives, you might want to think about more than just the sun and the waves when you hit the beach. Think about what the lifeguard is driving. If you’re in Los Angeles, there’s a good chance that [...]
May 31, 2010
· John Cole · 68 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
I’d Like a Stupak Amendment For This, Please
Your liberal media covers the Israeli raid on the flotilla: The Israeli Navy raided a flotilla carrying thousands of tons of supplies for Gaza in international waters on Monday morning, killing at least 10 people, according to the Israeli military and activists traveling with the flotilla. Some Israeli media reports put the death toll higher. [...]
May 31, 2010
· John Cole · 289 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Foreign Affairs, Our Failed Media Experiment
