Archive for July, 2010
Amazingly Enough, Shit From 30,000 Feet Still Looks Like Shit
Chuckie T. is losing sleep over the private emails of liberals: “I am sure Ezra had good intentions when he created it, but I am offended the right is using this as a sledgehammer against those of us who don’t practice activist journalism. “Journolist was pretty offensive. Those of us who are mainstream journalists got [...]
July 28, 2010
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John Cole · 
41 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Our Failed Media Experiment
Another Open Thread
Timely. Psych is about UFO’s Does Psych have the best theme song ever, btw: Not playing Starcraft because my video card sucks. Guess I need to get a gaming machine.
July 28, 2010
· John Cole · 58 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Open Thread
Some pics. First, the garden, which is about to explode: I picked a bunch of maters today, but am reaching a critical mass point. As you can see, one of the plants is so heavy with fruit it is dragging the stake over and I had to prop it up. Going to have to figure [...]
July 28, 2010
· John Cole · 101 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Cat Blogging, Dog Blogging, Open Thread
It Ain’t Like He’s Talking About Some Omniscient, Omnipotent Being Who Demands You Go Worship Him Every Week and Who Is Gravely Offended by Gay People He Allegedly Made and Janet Jackson’s Nipple
Normally it is Dennis Kucinich who gets flamed for this stuff, now it is John Podesta: John Podesta is a distinguished Washington insider. He is currently the president of the liberal Center for American Progress, and previously served as co-chair of Barack Obama’s presidential transition team (2008-2009) and White House chief of staff for Bill [...]
July 28, 2010
· John Cole · 162 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Religion
No True Scotsman
This could be fun: Joe Sestak continued Monday to distance himself from Nancy Pelosi while at the same time tying his Republican opponent Pat Toomey to George W. Bush. Sestak, speaking at the Pennsylvania Press Club, was asked whether he believes Speaker of the House Pelosi is a liberal or a pragmatist. Sestak describes himself [...]
July 28, 2010
· John Cole · 36 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity
#GOPmathfail
Here’s one of the wingnut flunkies in training “tanned (in a prairie, sun-chapped sort of way)” hoops playing himbos the Republicans are going to trot out for 2012: Appearing on Fox News, Thune and host Greta Van Susteren discussed the bill’s call for the creation of a Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, tasked with reducing [...]
July 28, 2010
· John Cole · 42 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Republican Stupidity, Technically True but Collectively Nonsense
Still Making Their Own Reality
This cracked me up: NY Times- AZ Law Blocked! AP- AZ Law Blocked! CNN- AZ LAw Blocked Col. Mustard and the wingnut chorus- Key Parts of AZ Law Upheld!
July 28, 2010
· John Cole · 74 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Teabagger Stupidity
Bravery, bullshit, and scientific illiteracy
Andrew Sullivan has an interesting post up in which he semi-apologizes for the Bell Curve and argues that it is important to argue about Israel even if it brings out anti-Semitism just as it was important to discuss racial differences even if it brought out racism. I don’t think it’s a good comparison, but I [...]
July 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 172 Comments
Posted in: Other
They’re So Important, Sharks have a Week Dedicated to Watching Senators
Of course the egomaniacs in the Senate are now against reforming the filibuster: Senate Democrats do not have the votes to lower the 60-vote threshold to cut off filibusters. The lack of support among a handful of Senate Democratic incumbents is a major blow to the effort to change the upper chamber’s rules. They won’t [...]
July 28, 2010
· John Cole · 154 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Politics
Just Can’t Shut Up
Jeffrey Lord, who thinks that Shirley Sherrod’s relative—who was beaten to death in 1945 by 3 men while handcuffed—wasn’t lynched because there was no hanging, three isn’t a mob and the Supreme Court said the men were “acting under color of law,” tops all that in this interview: Lord says he doesn’t want Sherrod to [...]
July 28, 2010
· mistermix · 138 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Black Jimmy Carter
Open Thread
It’s been a while since we had an open thread, and this picture seems to cry out for a caption. (It’s from today’s Wonkbook.)
July 28, 2010
· mistermix · 88 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Pricing the Volt
This still seems a little high to me: General Motors on Tuesday put the base price of its Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in car capable of driving about 40 miles on battery power without using gasoline, at $41,000 before a $7,500 federal tax credit. The Nissan Leaf, a fully electric car that goes on sale in [...]
July 28, 2010
· John Cole · 110 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Can You Hear Me Now?
Adding further fuel to the argument that Apple should drop AT&T (or at least treat them the way Don’s hooker treats him), here’s a study showing that Verizon smartphone users use more data than AT&T smartphone users. It’s not iPhone data hogs breaking the AT&T network, it’s AT&T management’s unwillingness to invest.
July 28, 2010
· mistermix · 35 Comments
Posted in: Science and Technology
Guess Who
“President Obama has the power to stop this ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ business. Just sign an executive order. I don’t know why it’s taking so long—it’s not fair. We should stop this nonsense.”
July 28, 2010
· mistermix · 119 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
Yawn or Apocalypse, Day 2
Tom Ricks (via): A huge leak of U.S. reports and this is all they get? I know of more stuff leaked at one good dinner on background. Of course, Ricks’ dinners didn’t include anyone willing to tell him that the Taliban used surface-to-air missiles to shoot down US aircraft, or that the US paid Afghan media [...]
July 28, 2010
· mistermix · 94 Comments
Posted in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
