Archive for December, 2010
Open thread
I pretty much always wish I was a barefoot gypsy ‘round the campfire singing and playing, but especially this time of year, maybe because I used to go caroling when I was in elementary school. Now we can get down to what is really wrong. Talk about anything except the Daily Dish and Four Loko.
December 29, 2010
· 
Angry DougJ · 
45 Comments
Posted in: Music, Open Thread
There Ought To Be An Award
In the annals of reaching to attain victimization, this Gary Bauer piece should be considered an award winning attempt.
December 29, 2010
· John Cole · 74 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Religion
Moore Nominee Update
Appel responds: The Dish spent much more time this year tracking vitriolic right-wing rhetoric than left-wing rhetoric. I went through all of this year’s nominees and there were roughly ten times as many Malkin nominees as Moore nominees. And don’t forget that there is a second category for right-wing bile – the Hewitt Award. If [...]
December 29, 2010
· John Cole · 72 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
And it stoned me just like geloio
I think we’re more of a plutocracy or oligarchy since the ridiculous don’t really rule so much as they just eat up attention (at least in Paul Ryan’s case), but I still like this idea, from Paul Krugman. The whining from the banksters about Obama not kissing their asses is truly ridiculous. I do think [...]
December 29, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 79 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Going Galt
Feel the birthmentum
A friend just emailed me to tell me that local right-wing radio guy Bob Lonsberry just spent an hour on Obama’s birth certificate. I believe that neo-birtherism—hey, I believe Obama was born here but there are legitimate questions—will gain momentum over the next year. I believe that we will hear at least one non-partisan Village [...]
December 29, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 262 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Going Galt
Open Thread
Ready or not, here it is.
December 29, 2010
· mistermix · 144 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Good Hair
If you get a chance, I recommend watching Good Hair, Chris Rock’s documentary on black hair. I had no idea of the size and reach of the black hair industry ($9 billion/year, the majority of money spent on hair in the US), or the link between hair extensions and Hindu sacrifice. Commenter Emily L. Hauser [...]
December 29, 2010
· mistermix · 110 Comments
Posted in: Movies
Wired’s Response
Bradley Manning is in prison in part because of some chats between him and Wired source Adrian Lamo. As John posted on Monday, Wired has refused to release those logs in full. Last night, Wired responded with two lengthy posts that hinge on this point: We have already published substantial excerpts from the logs, but critics [...]
December 29, 2010
· mistermix · 155 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
Early Morning Open Thread: Mac & Bella
From commentor Jude B: Meet Mac. He is a now four year old black Lab. He is our scared-y dog. He is frightened by noises, both either loud or just unexpected like a dropped paper bag. He is also frightened by new things: a new pillow on the bed, a new desk in the front [...]
December 29, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 25 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Open Thread, Pet Rescue
Another Year-End list published too early…
On Christmas Eve Salon published a list of Wingnutopia’s most crazy made-up Obama scandals for 2010. It was a pretty comprehensive list although some big wingnut freakouts like the so-called ‘Climate-Gate’ didn’t make the list—I guess because it didn’t have an “Obama-did-it” angle to sell. Still, it looks like the list was published a week [...]
December 28, 2010
· Dennis G. · 99 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Good News For Conservatives, Open Thread
No Republic for old men
And another good profile of someone who has deeply damaged our country, an excellent, sympathetic New York magazine piece about Marty Peretz. The short of it: he’s always been too emo for his own good but now he’s old, bitter, and recently divorced, and thus prone to saying excessively whack angry shit on his blog [...]
December 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 88 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
More “Decision Points”
You just can’t beat the London Review of Books. There’s nothing like it here: In the book, as in his life, Bush the postmodernist is a simulacrum: a Connecticut blueblood who pretended to be a Texas cowboy, though he couldn’t ride a horse and lived on a ‘ranch’ with no cattle. He was, and is, [...]
December 28, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 98 Comments
Posted in: Other
Open Thread: NFL & Otherwise
By popular demand, a/k/a Readership Capture.
December 28, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 181 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Open Thread
Militant Moderates
Apparently last night’s post went right over the Sully borg’s collective heads: Do you think they understood the point of my post last night? Like, for example, the people on “teh left” who are all nominated for awards are basically folks with no institutional power, and whose grave sins range from saying fuck too much [...]
December 28, 2010
· John Cole · 219 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Clown Shoes, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue
Make Mine a Manhattan
It seems that an honorary member of the Crow tribe has just signed on with the Black Helicopter brigade and is readying—now, as I write, in some secure undisclosed location (Berchtesgaden?)—the documents of transfer that will (at last!) restore its traditional owners to their rightful enjoyment of just a tiny piece of American soil. That [...]
December 28, 2010
· Tom Levenson · 131 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Seriously
