Archive for September, 2010
Cover of the Rolling Stone
Let’s everybody go buy at least one copy of the October 15 issue of Rolling Stone, and see if we can stealth-seed them into the waiting rooms at the dentist, Jiffy-Lube, Gymboree, the break room at the office, and wherever “low information” voters might be in need of an easily palatable update on How The [...]
September 29, 2010
· 
Anne Laurie · 
116 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority, C.R.E.A.M., Election 2010, Excellent Links, Popular Culture, Seriously
It’s Money – Nothing More, Nothing Less
Henry Waxman, of all people, serves up another reminder that corporations run DC by adopting the Google/Verizon net neutrality plan as his own: How did we get from FCC Chair Julius Genachowski’s proposals for clear net neutrality enforcement and ISP transparency rules based on limited common carrier provisions to this?First, factor in massive pushback, lawsuit threatening, and Capitol [...]
September 29, 2010
· mistermix · 16 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Free Markets Solve Everything, General Stupidity, Science and Technology
There’s No Place Like the Senate
If Jim DeMint can singlehandedly shut down the Senate by just clicking his heels together three times, I can only imagine what he would be like as minority leader. I hope I see that day soon. This guy is a one-man wrecking machine.
September 29, 2010
· mistermix · 46 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority, Republican Stupidity
Early Morning Open Thread: Pumpkin Season Pet Rescue
From commentor Bowler1701: This is Pumpkin. When she was a tiny kitten, I grabbed her from under the hood of our Beetle. We already had a house full of cats so I was going to ask our veterinarian to find a good home for her. After a few seconds of holding her close I couldn’t [...]
September 29, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 40 Comments
Posted in: Cat Blogging, Open Thread, Pet Rescue
Pot, kettle
I don’t see another explanation for what Tom Friedman was doing when he wrote this column: The Tea Party that has gotten all the attention, the amorphous, self-generated protest against the growth in government and the deficit, is what I’d actually call the “Tea Kettle movement” — because all it’s doing is letting off steam.[.....]The [...]
September 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 137 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, We Are All Mayans Now
The white hot intensity of a thousand suns
I don’t think I have to explain the context for this video, given what’s gone on at this blog and at another the past two days.
September 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 91 Comments
Posted in: Other
Replaceable, Replaceable, Replaceable, Jazz.
Watching Get Him To the Greek, and finding it pretty amusing.
September 28, 2010
· John Cole · 52 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Flexbooks
ED and DougJ’s posts about their hippie views on the school system made me want to mention the CK-12 institute and their innovative textbook creation system called Flexbooks. This system allows K-12 teachers to assemble subject textbooks from state-approved content, add in their own teaching materials, and download the result in ebook or pdf form. [...]
September 28, 2010
· mistermix · 49 Comments
Posted in: Science and Technology
A Picture Says It All
With the new cuts in food stamps scheduled, this is what someone is supposed to survive on in a week: How is that in anyway healthy? If unseasoned potatoes, rice, and oatmeal is all I ever could eat, I’d probably sell my food stamps and buy liquor and cigarettes, too.
September 28, 2010
· John Cole · 203 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Progressive FanFic
I really want to let this go, because I’m a believer in the old maxim to “never argue with an idiot, they just drag you down to their level and then beat you with their experience,” but Jane Hannity is at it again: I’ve never said you needed more than fifty votes in reconciliation. She’s [...]
September 28, 2010
· John Cole · 244 Comments
Posted in: Green Balloons, Manic Progressive
Rock bottom
I remember seeing Dennis Miller do a very thoughtful interview with Al Gore back on the Dennis Miller talk show; unlike most hosts, Miller had read Gore’s book—Earth in the Balance—quite carefully and I remember telling a friend “why can’t Charlie Rose do this with his guests’ books”. Even though Miller’s been a full-fledged winger [...]
September 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 82 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Hoot-Smalley
Open Thread: Headline of the Day
Tom Scocca at Slate: “Politico: The President’s Next Chief of Staff Will Probably Be a Person With Political Connections“. And it took three reporters to break that brilliant scoop, too: “The function of the country’s chief executive, according to Politico, is not to administer the country as effectively as he can, according to the goals [...]
September 28, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 45 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, General Stupidity, Open Thread, Our Failed Media Experiment
The Settlement Freeze
I’ve been waiting for Emily to talk about this, but she apparently is off basking in her new-found celebrity, but I’m wondering what the take on this is from you all: This week, world leaders reportedly telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to urge him to extend the freeze. French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for [...]
September 28, 2010
· John Cole · 92 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
Bill Paying Moms
For whatever reason, Republicans don’t like to admit that most of their support comes from white men. So right on cue, we’ve got a new non-male demographic group that will propel Republicans to victory in November, Bill-Paying Moms (h/t Commander Guy). Never mind that the reality is a huge gender gap, with women tending to [...]
September 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 50 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Politics
Afternoon Animal Thread
A picture of Boghan and the newly acquired Ellie posing in the woods near Cooper’s Rock: That ear action on Ellie just kills me. She really looks like the kind of dog you see in dogfood commercials.
September 28, 2010
· John Cole · 44 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Pet Rescue
