Archive for October, 2010
One and Done
For those of you keeping score at home, it takes approximately sixty seconds for a Jack Russell Terrier, once tied outside, to knock over the mums, knock over the pumpkin, and then get hopelessly tangled in a yard sign and then start yelping like you are being beaten. Atta girl, Rosie.
October 29, 2010
· 
John Cole · 
61 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Dog Blogging
It’s cold, out there, and rough
Henry Farrell has written the definitive Megan McArdle put-down piece. He lists several examples of where she lied or volubly heh-indeeded some other wingers’ lies and failed to correct herself when she was caught out on it. And he makes a good general point: While I believe that there is an excellent case for intellectual [...]
October 29, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 87 Comments
Posted in: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Pink Himalayan Salt
Grading On A Curve
Jean Schmidt delivers Republican campaign message to 1st graders at a Catholic school: Parents of Cincinnati elementary school students are upset over remarks made by U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt. She reportedly brought up the abortion issue in front of children as young as 6. The school’s principal sent a letter home to parents on that [...]
October 29, 2010
· Kay · 114 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, DC Press Corpse, Education, Election 2010, Flash Mob of Hate
Murder he wrote
Jonah Goldberg calls for Julian Assange’s murder. He (Assange) told the New Yorker earlier this year that he fully understands innocent people might die as a result of the “collateral damage” of his work and that WikiLeaks may have “blood on our hands.” WikiLeaks is easily among the most significant and well-publicized breaches of American [...]
October 29, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 92 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Our Failed Media Experiment
Futility
The NY Times has an op-ed on why lethal injection is in fact tantamount to torture, and I can’t help but think writing about this is just an exercise in futility. The American people are about to go to the polls and elect a large number of people who enthusiastically embrace torture of anyone the [...]
October 29, 2010
· John Cole · 85 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!
Audiences Will Be Granted Sparingly, To the Right Kind of People
Future Senator/Queen Sharron Angle allows that she might possibly speak with the “lamestream media” after the election. “And I’m hoping that as we get into this once I get elected senator,” Angle continued, “that they will be much more civil and we will have a very civil discourse.” Angle’s big beef isn’t with Rachel Maddow [...]
October 29, 2010
· mistermix · 54 Comments
Posted in: I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Teabagger Stupidity
Good day, sunshine
Krugman paints a happy portrait of our political future: This is going to be terrible. In fact, future historians will probably look back at the 2010 election as a catastrophe for America, one that condemned the nation to years of political chaos and economic weakness. I’m inclined to agree.
October 29, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 105 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now
A Juicy Target
Verizon Wireless will pay the FCC a $25 million fine, and refund $52 million to customers, because they set up their network to generate $1.99 in fees every time a customer unintentionally accessed data from a phone. I doubt that a Republican House will have the guts to impeach Obama, but I’m certain that one [...]
October 29, 2010
· mistermix · 15 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything
Early Morning Open Thread: House Bunnies
From commentor Redshift: These are Leland (the dapper gentleman in the grey and white) and Georgia, his trophy wife. They are two of our three current adopted rabbits. Leland had been turned in to a shelter; we don’t know his story before that, but he was a shelter workers’ favorite before he was liberated by [...]
October 29, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 26 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Pet Rescue
B. Yung: “I am tired.”
Why are you voting? It’s been two years since Obama took office. Two years after 8 years of full-frontal tomfoolery and I am tired. I am tired of arguing with folks on the left. I am through arguing with folks on the right. I’m tired of the pundits and the “enthusiasm gap.” I’m tired of [...]
October 29, 2010
· ABL · 98 Comments
Posted in: Election 2010, Open Thread
Take you to his mansion in the sky
Give this family a tax break stat: MUMBAI — The newest and most exclusive residential tower for this city’s superrich is a cantilevered sheath of steel and glass soaring 27 floors into the sky. The parking garage fills six levels. Three helipads are on the roof. There are terraces upon terraces, airborne swimming pools and [...]
October 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 72 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, We Are All Mayans Now
Post Game Open Thread
I don’t watch near as much baseball as I used to since the Pirates have decided to suck like Linda Lovelace for two decades, but I honestly don’t recall the last time I saw an entire bullpen breakdown like the Rangers did in the bottom of the 8th tonight. Just pathetic.
October 28, 2010
· John Cole · 54 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Sports
Stop breaking down
Now that we’ve established that there really were WMD in Iraq, it’s time for the next story: This is the famous strategy created by Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward back in the 60s when they tried to flood the welfare system with so many applicants that it would break down. And their notion was [...]
October 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 38 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now
What Jack Abramoff told me
As some may know I began following the career of Jack Abramoff back in 1999 (and since 2004, I’ve written quite a lot about his scandal over at Dkos). I work at a nonProfit in DC concerned with social, environmental and economic justice. Back in the mid to late 1990s we had a campaign to expose and [...]
October 28, 2010
· Dennis G. · 50 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Election 2010
Now This Is How Its Done
So, you going to send an Imperial Storm Trooper to the Senate?* Which is to say that W. VA Gov. Joe Manchin’s web ads kick ass: More here. Fun. *(Ahhh, Godwin…just can’t quit you, can I. I mean really. We know who Palpatine was, don’t we. And we know who the Sturmabteilungen were, right)
October 28, 2010
· Tom Levenson · 24 Comments
Posted in: Election 2010, General Stupidity, Humor, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People
