Archive for August, 2010
Iraq
Bobo and various other neocons have been on a crusade to get liberals to “admit that the surge worked”. This is part of a larger effort to rehabilitate George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and neoconservatism. Of course, there’s no doubt that violence did start to go down a great deal in Iraq about six [...]
August 31, 2010
· 
Angry DougJ · 
137 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
Open Thread
Actually forgot about the Presidential address, so I was accidentally spared the horrors of the post-speech chatter from the bobbleheads. We have a fourth Fantasy football league: http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/register/tos?league_id=637772&password=alsotoo Go register.
August 31, 2010
· John Cole · 188 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Open Thread: At Home in the World
Change of pace, wind down for the evening. The NYTimes Style section recently printed an article on Mary Catherine Bateson entitled “An Anthropologist’s Take on Homemaking”. In Dr. Bateson’s parlance, homemaking is not so much about decoration and renovation. Rather, it’s a metaphor for community, for the design of an environment — professional or domestic [...]
August 31, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 78 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Open Thread
Glenn Beck is not the white Malcolm X
There are many things wrong with Reihan Salam’s comparison of Glenn Beck to Malcolm X, and Adam Serwer points to a number of them: Except for the fact that Malcolm’s father was murdered by white supremacists who were never brought to justice, his memories of the KKK terrorizing his family, his general experience of white [...]
August 31, 2010
· E.D. Kain · 128 Comments
Posted in: Crock Pot Craziness
Elmer Gantry, ver. 64.2.10
If you’re Glenn Beck, the Lonesome Rhodes path to supremacy is blocked with a Limbaugh-sized… ego. That guy ain’t going away without a fight that would damage both contenders. On the other hand, there’s an opening for Heartland America™’s Most Conspicuous Jeebus Huckster—Franklin Graham just doesn’t have his old man’s charisma, and Rick Warren is [...]
August 31, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 41 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, C.R.E.A.M., Green Balloons
Who are you calling gay, smart guy?
Daniel Larison on the idea that Beckstock was an awesome moment of Mormon-evangelical unity: In other words, when Mormons and evangelicals are at their worst and are indulging their least admirable tendencies to idolize the country at the expense of their religious teachings, there is a chance for them to find common ground. If you [...]
August 31, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 101 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Burkean bells
Another PayPal story
I’ve been using credit cards for almost everything for all of my adult life. I have had exactly one instance of fraud on one of my credit cards: someone bought a $500 “all natural playhouse” (I’m not sure what this is) with my American Express card via PayPal two years ago. Also too: do we [...]
August 31, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 31 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity
DAY 76 of PAYPAL’s REIGN OF ERROR
Another day, another automatic response: Ten years, and now they just can’t be sure I am who I am. They only have my address, a copy of my bills, ten years of doing business with me, a copy of my driver’s license, my bank information and numerous transfers to and from said bank with no [...]
August 31, 2010
· John Cole · 109 Comments
Posted in: Assholes
Maybe They Should Dress Up as Pimps?
Tucker Carlson’s vanity project is killing me. In a post titled “New Left Media uses Trojan trick to get interviews,” we learn the following: Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll, the two young journalists behind “New Left Media,” tell attendees at Tea Party and other conservative rallies that they are student journalists working on a school [...]
August 31, 2010
· John Cole · 149 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, Teabagger Stupidity
The Shift
I know I’m supposed to be reading the Beck rally like tea leaves, but, sadly, I’m cynical, I’ve seen this movie before, so I can’t. A few weeks before organizing a massive rally on the Mall that had the feel of a religious revival, Glenn Beck sought the blessing of some of the country’s most [...]
August 31, 2010
· Kay · 90 Comments
Posted in: Election 2010
Regression to mean
A resident of Murfeesboro, TN talks to TPM about how things have changed. I hope this isn’t typical of what’s going on in the country: Sbenaty expressed shock over the atmosphere in a town he’s lived in for 30 years. For most of that time, he said, the community has been extremely supportive and welcoming. [...]
August 31, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 36 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Burkean bells
I Hear Luke Russert Edited It
I am sure this will be a bestseller: “Dirty Sexy Politics,” written by Meghan McCain, daughter of former Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona, goes behind the scenes on the campaign trail and in the spotlight to discuss why she thinks the Republican Party has veered from its roots. The last few chapters [...]
August 31, 2010
· John Cole · 33 Comments
Posted in: WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
Everyday people
When I lived in Athens, Georgia, I had a Persian friend who been educated in Paris. I joked to her once about having been sorry she ever left Paris to end up here and she told me “No, I like it much better here.” I asked why and she said “In Paris, I got a [...]
August 31, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 88 Comments
Posted in: Assholes
WaPo Suspends Wise Ass
I’m kind of shocked that an institution that weekly publishes the climate lies of George Will is doing this: The Washington Post has suspended veteran sports columnist Mike Wise for publishing fabricated information on Twitter. He announced the one-month suspension on his radio show Tuesday. Wise claimed Monday that he wanted to prove a point [...]
August 31, 2010
· John Cole · 38 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Sports
“The Mother of All Grizzlies”
Dahlia Lithwick at Slate has a wonderful tribute describing how “Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows how feminism is done. Again.” ... Palin and the Mama Grizzlies also owe a debt of thanks directly to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who almost single-handedly convinced the courts and legislatures to do away with gender classifications in matters ranging from a [...]
August 31, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 49 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Excellent Links, Seriously
