Archive for February, 2011

Cooperation is overrated

by Angry DougJ

I really recommend you read the Forbes blog piece ED wrote and linked to earlier. I don’t know enough to say much, pro or con, about Michelle Rhee or Joel Klein but I was struck by how much this quote from Rhee is just the kind of thing elites like to say to plebes: “Cooperation, [...]

February 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 46 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, We Are All Mayans Now

Stand Up America: Palinites to Drive Their Cars and Then Pull Over and Sit There for an Hour

by ABL

FREEEDUM! In a stunning display of Teabilly slacktivism, Palinites are planning to block traffic for an hour in order to – to – well what the fuck do I know what they’re doing it for:1 Sarah Palin called the Obama Administration’s actions as [sic] the “Road to Ruin”! [Uh, no. The Road to Ruin broke [...]

February 28, 2011 · ABL · 107 Comments
Posted in: Crock Pot Craziness, General Stupidity, Lies, Damned Lies, and Sarah Palin, Seriously, She Has The Electrolytes We Need, Teabagger Stupidity, Wingnut Event Horizon, WTF?

No, Really. Democrats are Just Republicans in Cheap Suits.

by Tom Levenson

The Obama Administration can play it cool when it wants to. Via Feministing by way of TPM, we learn that the forced birth/hate teh gayz crowd took one on the chin last week, and, despite all efforts to the contrary, women (and gays, and transexuals, and just about anyone who thinks it’s none of anyone [...]

February 28, 2011 · Tom Levenson · 70 Comments
Posted in: OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.

The new face of education reform

by E.D. Kain

Over at Forbes I talk about Scott Walker’s plans to layoff 1,500 state workers and cut $1 billion in state aid to schools and local governments. I think Walker is doing what Chris Christie would like to do, and what reformers like Michelle Rhee never had the power to do – he calls it balancing [...]

February 28, 2011 · E.D. Kain · 53 Comments
Tags: education reform, Scott Walker, unions · Posted in: Education

Monday Night Open Thread

by Anne Laurie

At least there’s new episode of CASTLE. And tomorrow, new DETROIT 1-8-7…

February 28, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 21 Comments
Posted in: Humor, Open Thread

I’m Picking Out a Thermos For You (alternate title: Riders on the Storm)

by John Cole

Today’s news from the wetsuit crowd: The Rev. Grant Storms, the Christian fundamentalist known for his bullhorn protests of the Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, was arrested on a charge of masturbating at a Metairie park Friday afternoon. Storms, 53, of 2304 Green Acres Road in Metairie, was taken into custody at Lafreniere [...]

February 28, 2011 · John Cole · 119 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness

Why Do Market Forces Always Feel Like a Stick-up?

by John Cole

We’ve already discussed the recent “discovery” that many people urged to opt in to 401k’s as their primary source of retirement funding are rocking woefully underfunded portfolios. With this, it will get much, much worse: Lawmakers and governors in many states, faced with huge shortfalls in employee pension funds, are turning to a strategy that [...]

February 28, 2011 · John Cole · 74 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Goldman Sachs, hoocoodanode, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

Not surprising

by Angry DougJ

An (admittedly small sample) Public Policy Polling survey finds that if Wisconsin voters could re-do their votes from last November, they’d vote against Scott Walker by seven points. The shift is mostly caused by independent and Republican members of unions turning against Walker. This is pretty much exactly what I thought would happen here. The [...]

February 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 77 Comments
Posted in: Fuck The Middle-Class, Republican Venality

Grrrr . . . .

by Randinho

I was busy all weekend, so I just want to say that being an Arsenal fan is an exercise in disappointment. That is all.

February 28, 2011 · Randinho · 33 Comments
Posted in: Sports

A Modern Parable

by John Cole

This was sent to me: A unionized public employee, a teabagger, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, then looks at the teabagger and says “Watch out for that union guy—he [...]

February 28, 2011 · John Cole · 140 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Teabagger Stupidity

Jailhouse Fox

by Angry DougJ

Who knows what will happen but it sure would be interesting if the head of ABC’s sister network get indicted. I would like to hear the tape of Ailes telling Judith Regan to lie to federal investigators about Bernie Kerik.

February 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 47 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, Hoot-Smalley, Our Failed Media Experiment

Wall Street’s liberal bias

by Angry DougJ

Now we know why Moody’s put out that bogus report (shameless nutpicking but I don’t have the heart to read what the wingnut blogs are saying): Convenient. Apparently Zandi wants to stay on the Obama Christmas card list. Zandi seems to play the role of Washington’s perennial arbiter of Economic Rightness.

February 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 40 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Going Galt

My new education-policy blog

by E.D. Kain

Shameless self-promotion alert: I have a new blog at Forbes on education policy and education reform. My long introduction post is up this morning. In it, I offer a critique of the top-down reforms of Michelle Rhee and others, as well as a more broad swipe at the choice and accountability movement. Lots more to [...]

February 28, 2011 · E.D. Kain · 131 Comments
Tags: education policy, education reform · Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Education

Your booty makes me moody

by Angry DougJ

Another day, another independent economic report saying that the Republican budget cuts will hurt the economy. Last week it was Goldman, today it’s Moody’s. A Republican plan to sharply cut federal spending this year would destroy 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to an independent economic analysis set for release Monday. The report, by Moody’s Analytics [...]

February 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 62 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Domestic Affairs, Our Failed Media Experiment

Rally pictures

by Angry DougJ

The national media ignored the huge rally in Madison this weekend as well as the solidarity rallies that took place all over the country, but I suspect they got a lot of local coverage. Here’s a picture a reader sent in from Madison. And here’s one from St. Paul. There’s a solidarity rally in Rochester [...]

February 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 32 Comments
Posted in: Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Fuck The Middle-Class, Readership Capture

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