Archive for June, 2010
The story of modern media in one sentence
Jeffrey Golberg: Well, Ta-Nehisi takes Goldblog to the woodshed, but gently, because Ta-Nehisi is too nice a guy for that woodshed business. I’m not sure it’s fair to teen-age boys to call the Atlantic blogs a circle jerk. Update. I’m being totally unfair, the push-back here (from TNC and others) resulted in a near retraction. [...]
June 28, 2010
· 
Angry DougJ · 
54 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Media
Good News From the Supreme Court- Barely
Of course, with one more “originalist” judge just calling balls and strikes, there might have been a different outcome: A public law school did not violate the First Amendment by withdrawing recognition from a Christian student group that excluded gay and lesbian students, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a 5-to-4 decision. The case, [...]
June 28, 2010
· John Cole · 55 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!
Open Thread
Didn’t get half as much done as I needed today- apparently this is the busiest time of the year for the DMV (at least in WV), because lots of tags become due on 1 July. On the the upside, I did go get some tags for Rosie for her collar (or, as my friend Jill [...]
June 28, 2010
· John Cole · 102 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Better To Burn Out
The National Tea Party Unity Convention is moving from July 15-17 to October for a number of bullshit reasons that obscure the real one—apparently, nobody wanted to come. Leave it to CNN to dutifully transcribe the bullshit reasons without applying one bit of skepticism. Here’s a good one: “The heat in Las Vegas in July [...]
June 28, 2010
· mistermix · 124 Comments
Posted in: Teabagger Stupidity
Sargent Unloads
This was fun to read.
June 28, 2010
· John Cole · 66 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
Brazil v Chile Open Thread
Can Chile stop Brazil or will the absence of three of Chile’s defenders make them the first South American team to go home?
June 28, 2010
· Randinho · 89 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Netherlands v Slovakia open Thread
Can Slovakia continue the Cinderella story or will it be Dutch treat?
June 28, 2010
· Randinho · 48 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Add It Up
According to the Houston Chronicle, BP saved $5 million by taking shortcuts while drilling the Macondo well in the Gulf.
June 28, 2010
· mistermix · 23 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything
Byrd’s Passing
The WaPo has an extremely long obit: Robert C. Byrd, 92, a conservative West Virginia Democrat who became the longest-serving member of Congress in history and used his masterful knowledge of the institution to shape the federal budget, protect the procedural rules of the Senate and, above all else, tend to the interests of his [...]
June 28, 2010
· John Cole · 63 Comments
Posted in: Politics
Now There is a Hot Scoop
The Politico: Still, Republicans have settled on a strategy of painting Kagan, who has never been a judge, as a politically driven ideologue. They insist they haven’t ruled out a filibuster, though that seems highly unlikely. I’m sure you are shocked by this.
June 28, 2010
· John Cole · 30 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Flash Mob of Hate, hoocoodanode
Housing
Following up on Krugman’s pessimism, here’s some housing market analysis from Hal “Bondad” Stewart at 538: What does all this mean? 1.) The existing home sales market has farther to fall. There is simply far too much inventory on the market for prices to remain stable. 2.) During the recession, the economy lost a total [...]
June 28, 2010
· mistermix · 30 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M.
Robert Byrd RIP
He was 92.
June 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 59 Comments
Posted in: Other
Turning Japanese
K-Thug says we’re in a true depression: In 2008 and 2009, it seemed as if we might have learned from history. Unlike their predecessors, who raised interest rates in the face of financial crisis, the current leaders of the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank slashed rates and moved to support credit markets. Unlike [...]
June 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 91 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M.
Early Morning Open Thread: The Kids Are All Right
From Max Read’s Gawker post, “High-School Students Plan Hypothetical NASA Mission, Discover It’s Real”: ... In 2009, science teacher Ron Dantowitz gave three of his students a project, asking them to plan a mission to record the disintegration of a spacecraft. It was presented as a hypothetical situation to the kids—James Breitmeyer, Brigitte Berman, and [...]
June 28, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 16 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Science and Technology
Some Thoughts on Sunday’s Games 6-27-10
About six years ago Mercia and I were at a resort in the Dominican Republic on vacation. One day at lunch, Mercia was wearing a Brazil team jersey. In line next to us was an Englishman with a tee shirt that said “Football: We Invented Yet.” He was eying her shirt so Mercia pointed to [...]
June 27, 2010
· Randinho · 36 Comments
Posted in: Sports
