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Good Eats

by John Cole

Did a picking tonight: Got an heirloom the size of a softball that should be ready in two days and I’m really excited about that one. BTW- that new series Rubicon starts this Sunday.

July 29, 2010 · John Cole · 72 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb

You Don’t See This Every Day

by John Cole

Interesting: Interview With a Vampire author Anne Rice did some religious flip-flopping today. After saying in a Newsweek interview in 2004 that she would “only write for the Lord” going forward, she posted a message on her Facebook wall this week saying she has quit Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this [...]

July 29, 2010 · John Cole · 108 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture, Religion

Florida politics

by Angry DougJ

This isn’t getting as much attention as it deserves: whack-job millionaire Jeff Greene is now leading Kendrick Meeks in the Florida Democratic primary for US Senate. If Greene gets the nomination, I would expect the Democratic party to throw him under the bus and treat Charlie Crist as the de facto Democrat in the race. [...]

July 29, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 37 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M.

We’re All Paul Krugman Now

by John Cole

Apparently some members of the Fed have noticed inflation isn’t the real problem right now: A subtle but significant shift appears to be occurring within the Federal Reserve over the course of monetary policy amid increasing signs that the economic recovery is weakening. James Bullard, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, [...]

July 29, 2010 · John Cole · 157 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything, The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right

Open Thread: Not Enough Nerd, Newt

by Anne Laurie

Joe Klein, per Andrew Sullivan: Newt Gingrich is clearly running for President. How do I know? He gets dumb and angry when running for office. Or, more realistically, Gingrich has a book to sell. His public persona is always angry, noisy, and stupidity-rich. Greer Mansfield at Wonkette has been kind enough to read, and review, [...]

July 29, 2010 · Anne Laurie · 92 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Open Thread, Republican Stupidity

Perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn

by Angry DougJ

It seems like only yesterday that the New York Times was celebrating Lindsey Graham as a moderate party-bucking maverick: “I may introduce a constitutional amendment that changes the rules if you have a child here,” Graham said during an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “Birthright citizenship I think is a mistake, that we [...]

July 29, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 154 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Daydream Believers

Good For Lanny

by John Cole

As much as I loathe Lanny Davis, I kind of admire his going to bat for Charlie Rangel. I think the comparison to Sherrod is stupid as hell, but, still. I guess I just still really respect loyalty.

July 29, 2010 · John Cole · 58 Comments
Posted in: Politics

Texas Doesn’t Secede…This Time

by Kay

There are more uninsured residents of Texas — 6.1 million and counting — than there are people in 33 states. The state’s elected officials might be expected, therefore, to cheer a federal health care law that is likely to deliver billions of dollars from Washington to Austin and cover millions of low-income Texans. In Austin, [...]

July 29, 2010 · Kay · 110 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Domestic Affairs, Uncategorized

Marching Towards the Police State, Whimpering All the Way

by John Cole

Thanks, Team Obama: The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. The administration wants to add just four words—“electronic communication transactional records”—to a [...]

July 29, 2010 · John Cole · 183 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, War on Terror aka GSAVE®

Open Thread

by mistermix

I have scoured YouTube and think I’ve found a video emo enough for Anne Applebaum, Richard Cohen, Pat Buchanan, Bill Keller, Chuck Todd and all the other put-upon, misunderstood members of the media who have been damaged by wannabes invading their turf. Shed a tear for them in this open thread.

July 29, 2010 · mistermix · 32 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

Santorum

by mistermix

Larison has a good analysis of the stupidity of Rick Santorum’s latest pitch, which celebrates the upward mobility of Americans with a bunch of feel-good, rah-rah, false rhetoric: In many respects, these [downscale, rural and working-class] ought to be constituencies whose interests Santorum would want to defend, since many of them also happen to be [...]

July 29, 2010 · mistermix · 23 Comments
Posted in: Republican Stupidity

MSM Butthurt Roundup

by mistermix

Anne Applebaum turns in the ultimate “you stupid peasants can’t understand anything without us” column on Wikileaks: I didn’t think it was possible, but Julian Assange has now done it: By releasing 92,000 documents full of Afghanistan intelligence onto the laptops of an unsuspecting public, the founder of Wikileaks has finally made an ironclad case [...]

July 29, 2010 · mistermix · 42 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment

Always, Always Wrong

by mistermix

Irvine Housing Blog goes medieval on McMegan, who thinks that all mortgages should be ARMs. Who needs a fixed-rate mortgage when we all know that interest rates will never go up? (This was in yesterday’s comments, but nobody got a chance to post it.)

July 29, 2010 · mistermix · 59 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Free Markets Solve Everything

Open Thread: Howard Dean, No Scream

by Anne Laurie

Nothing ground-breaking, but I think this is a good “forward to your less politically obsessed friends & family members” call to action: ... I don’t believe all or even most of the Republican party voters are racist, but going at least as far back as Lee Atwater, the Willie Horton ads, and the attacks on [...]

July 29, 2010 · Anne Laurie · 29 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Open Thread

It’s About the Fucked-up-edness

by John Cole

What he said: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c

July 29, 2010 · John Cole · 70 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness, Our Failed Media Experiment, War on Terror aka GSAVE®

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