Archive for January, 2011
Nixonland: Book Group Reminder
After Checkers, to the cosmopolitan liberals, hating Richard Nixon, congratulating yourself for seeing through Richard Nixon and the elaborate political poker bluffs with which he hooked the sentimental rubes, was becoming part and parcel of a political identity… Four o’clock EST, this Sunday, we discuss the first two chapters of Nixonland.: the Rise of A [...]
January 28, 2011
· 
Anne Laurie · 
58 Comments
Posted in: Books, Nixonland
Inside Baseball for Nerds: “American Bridge”
Greg Sargent, at the WaPo’s Plum Line, says that “David Brock’s big-money outside group gains steam“: It looks like David Brock is getting more serious about building a powerful apparatus on the left to go head-to-head with the flood of outside money conservative groups are planning to pump into the 2012 elections. I’m told that [...]
January 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 35 Comments
Posted in: Cat Blogging, Daydream Believers, Election 2012
Open Thread
I think I speak for everyone when I say that at times like this, when there is a serious crisis overseas, I thank Allah for Sarah Palin’s facebook page.
January 28, 2011
· John Cole · 84 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Open Thread: Sputnik, Not SDI
The DFHs of the lamestream media are, not for the first time, underestimating the low cunning behind Palin’s who-lost-the-space-race “gaffe”: “He needs to remember that, uh, what happened back then with the communist U.S.S.R. and their victory in that race to space,” the Fox News contributor said Wednesday night, reacting to Obama’s reference to Sputnik [...]
January 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 112 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Open Thread, She Has The Electrolytes We Need
Into You Like a Train
Here’s some random news about sex and sexuality: The Catholic Church has decreed that all ejaculations must occur in the vagina. Unless, of course, there’s a little boy involved, then it gets complicated. (via) In not unrelated news, the very Catholic town of Rochester, NY is still debating about whether to have a debate about [...]
January 28, 2011
· mistermix · 97 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links
Rape Victims First, Then Disabled Vets
God, I love the new Republican majority: Tea party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has unveiled a plan for cutting $400 billion in federal spending that includes freezing Veterans Affairs Department health care spending and cutting veterans’ disability benefits. Her proposed VA budget cuts would account for $4.5 billion of the savings included in the [...]
January 28, 2011
· John Cole · 139 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Teabagger Stupidity
The masquerade is over
I probably wouldn’t have minded The New Republic so much if it hadn’t pretended to be liberal while Marty Peretz was at the helm. Eric Alterman (this excerpt is longer than usual, but it makes its point unusually well): Well, it’s finally over. Martin Peretz, who, according to David Horowitz’s Frontpage webzine, “has been a [...]
January 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 70 Comments
Posted in: Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Our Failed Media Experiment
The Rapist Protection Act of 2011
As an expansion of John’s quick post below, I wanted to point out that Teabaggers and wingnuts everywhere are taking it as a great victory and good news that Republican Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) has introduced a Bill to protect child predators and rapists and to ensure that any women or child raped by these [...]
January 28, 2011
· Dennis G. · 172 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Republican Venality
Memphis, Egypt
What is a good place to read about what is going in Egypt? I’d like something without an emphasis on what this means for the United States. I find it more sad than comical that the same people who were angry about the left’s “politicization” of the Tucson shootings are more than happy to use [...]
January 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 170 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
I love the smell of Franzia in the morning
We haven’t had quite enough good old-fashioned winger craziness in our posts recently. So here’s a double shot. The first may be for connoisseurs only, an Althouse bit about how she thinks a liberal plant is harassing an Asian-American Congressman state legislator to make Rush look bad. There’s nothing flashy, but Bieber is in the [...]
January 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 76 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
Also BTW
As Atrios points out, we really do not have any idea what Egypt will look like when and if her citizens kick Hosni Murbarak to the curb. It will probably look a lot like Iran, where a broad-based popular rebellion ousted another corrupt strongman with chummy ties to an English-speaking superpower. Everyone thought that their [...]
January 28, 2011
· Tim F. · 128 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
I Need To Convene a Blogger Ethics Panel
I’m curious if Conor F. will call me shrill or over the top or accuse me of using vile rhetoric if I point out that this makes the GOP objectively pro-rape, to borrow some warblogger terminology from years gone by. That’s right, ladies- the only way you are allowed any say in a pregnancy resulting [...]
January 28, 2011
· John Cole · 62 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Time for a Blogger Ethics Panel, Vagina Outrage, Wingnut Event Horizon
King of Hearts
Republicans in the Arizona state legislature, not content to twiddle their thumbs whilst SB 1070 navigates the courts, have introduced new legislation challenging birthright citizenship: The aim is “to trigger … a Supreme Court review of the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ in the 14th amendment,” said Rep. John Kavanagh, one on the backers [...]
January 28, 2011
· E.D. Kain · 119 Comments
Tags: Arizona, gun control, illegal immigration, public education, right-wingers, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Steven Seagal · Posted in: Crock Pot Craziness
RW ‘Lone Gunmen’ Go Global
The Guardian tells the sad tale of “Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato found murdered“: One of Uganda’s most prominent gay rights activists has been murdered in his home weeks after winning a court victory over a tabloid that called for homosexuals to be killed. David Kato, the advocacy officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda, was [...]
January 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 39 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Green Balloons, Teabagger Stupidity
Egypt
According to the Guardian live feed, the Internet is cut off, opposition leader Mohamed El Baradei is in custody has been detained, and police are siding with rioters in some cities. I’ll leave it up to you to check the Washington Post editorial page to see if the right sort of Muslims are rioting, and [...]
January 28, 2011
· mistermix · 124 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
