Archive for October, 2010
Hipster Beaux-Arts Bing Crosby
Although I don’t think I’ll read the new Keith Richards biography, I am enjoying reading about it, especially this piece by Tom Watson (via), which describes Keef as looking like a “hipster Beaux-Arts Bing Crosby”. Everyone seems to want to write about this, and it makes me sad that the book came out so close [...]
October 31, 2010
· 
Angry DougJ · 
119 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Hoot-Smalley, Other
Steelers/Saints Open Thread
Go Stillers!
October 31, 2010
· John Cole · 163 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Straight Pride Night Open Thread
Dan Savage likes to say that the reason breeders don’t have a pride parade is because they already have Halloween, so I’m getting my drink on to celebrate our special day. Also, too: 215K, bitches.
October 31, 2010
· mistermix · 113 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Big Suckers
Why is anyone, and I mean anyone, paying attention to anything these clowns have to say? I’m serious. How stupid do you have to be to believe anything featured at that website?
October 31, 2010
· John Cole · 76 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Bring on the Brawndo!, Our Failed Media Experiment
How We Love A Man In A Uniform….
Lost in the general haze of stupid/evil that hangs over Sarah Palin was a grace note in her recent speech supporting indictment-in-waiting Joe Miller, her cherished anti-Murkowski senatorial candidate. In a sparsely attended rally for the fading Teabagger senatorial candidate, Palin recalled Miller’s military background, and asked “are we even fit to tie his combat [...]
October 31, 2010
· Tom Levenson · 126 Comments
Posted in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Lies, Damned Lies, and Sarah Palin
NFL Open Thread
Your team sucks.
October 31, 2010
· John Cole · 211 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Hey Now!
This was one of my favorite shows when it was on, so I’m glad to see the Larry Sanders Show will finally be available on DVD. Rip Torn was genius.
October 31, 2010
· John Cole · 35 Comments
Posted in: Television
PSA: Firesheep
If you use wireless in public location (like Starbucks), it’s possible that someone else can use a Firefox extension called Firesheep to “sidejack” your Amazon, Facebook, Twitter or Google account (among others). This allows them to do things in your name on those accounts, and perhaps even steal your password (under rare circumstances). Though the [...]
October 31, 2010
· mistermix · 26 Comments
Posted in: Science and Technology
Fear and Self-Loathing
I’m glad he finally pointed this out: President Obama deflected heckling by AIDS protesters during a Saturday rally, suggesting they take up their cause with “the other side” that’s opposed to funding. A group of people interrupted Obama’s speech before 9,000 in Connecticut chanting “Fund Global AIDS.” The president was quick to respond to the [...]
October 31, 2010
· John Cole · 194 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Bring on the Brawndo!
Carter
Bill Maher’s entire interview with Jimmy Carter has been posted at HBO, and it’s worth watching just to remember the disconnect between the view of Carter that’s been cemented into pundit’s brains and the reality of the man, who was a smart, pragmatic and effective president. This interview spends a little time on Ted Kennedy’s [...]
October 31, 2010
· mistermix · 37 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links
Early Morning Open Thread: Lucky
From commentor Gemina13: In 2004, I lived in Brea, CA… I took the 110 (Harbor) Freeway to work and back home each day. Traffic at rush hour was usually slow torture. On July 26th, 2004, it was the hottest day of the year, with temperatures in the 90s and relative humidity. I had just mentioned [...]
October 31, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 38 Comments
Posted in: Cat Blogging, Open Thread, Pet Rescue
A simple voter’s guide to the Arizona elections
I’ll confine my advice to the state-wide propositions. You can basically assume that anyone you vote for in Arizona with an® next to their name is going to be well to the right of Barry Goldwater and most Democrats are going to vote similarly to your moderate Northeast Republicans. Arizona is far from the reddest state [...]
October 31, 2010
· E.D. Kain · 44 Comments
Tags: 2010 elections, Arizona, election guide · Posted in: Domestic Affairs
What Al said…
Back in 2007 and 2008 there were two people who seemed consistently correct in their pre-election analysis in the long primary season and then the General. One of them was Nate Silver and his 538, but his analysis was (and is) mostly about the numbers and very little about the why. The better analysis to [...]
October 30, 2010
· Dennis G. · 267 Comments
Posted in: Election 2010, Open Thread
I Don’t Have the Energy
To properly tear into this Pat Caddell piece in the WaPo, so if someone else would like to, I’ll gladly post it. It really is the most breathtakingly shameless thing I think I’ve ever read in the WaPo. I’m sure Breitbart will quote it in his new gig at ABC news. Heckuva job, media. Also, [...]
October 30, 2010
· John Cole · 181 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Black Jimmy Carter, Our Failed Media Experiment
The Very Definition of a Clusterfuck
This WaPo piece on the foreclosure crisis and the complete and total mess the banks have made of things is infuriating: Kevin Matthews, a Gulf War veteran, was initially rejected when he applied to his lender, USAA, for a modification of the mortgage on his Baltimore rowhouse. But when a housing counselor contacted USAA on [...]
October 30, 2010
· John Cole · 57 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Free Markets Solve Everything
