Archive for February, 2011
Open Thread
This is genius- cats quoting Charlie Sheen. (via the comments but I’m too lazy to look to find out who exactly posted this)
February 27, 2011
· 
John Cole · 
48 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Open Thread: “Not One of Us”
Either Dana Milbank has decided that there’s more of a future outside the Media Village bubble than in, or else Scott ‘Busted for Koch-Sucking” Walker has rushed his narrow pink arse a little too far out in front of the conventional wisdom. Milbank saved his piece on “Scott Walker’s unprincipled rigidity” for the big Sunday [...]
February 27, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 61 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality
Late Night Open Thread: Castoff Carnivores
From the WSJ, “Circus Animals Find a Home on Colorado Range“: 50-year-old former high-school math teacher Pat Craig… shares his three-bedroom house here on the plains of eastern Colorado with 13 dogs, five cats and three parrots. He has other creatures in his backyard: three packs of wolves, 66 black bears, 13 grizzly bears, two [...]
February 27, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 40 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Pet Rescue
I’d Happily Take Some of That ‘Decline’
Fascinating piece from one of James Fallows’ guest bloggers at the Atlantic. Eamonn Fingleton discusses “The Myth of Japan’s ‘Lost Decades‘”: Question 1: Given that Japan’s current account surplus (the widest and most meaningful measure of its trade) totaled $36 billion in 1990, what was it in 2010: (a) $18 billion; (b) $41 billion; or [...]
February 26, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 62 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Excellent Links, Foreign Affairs
Open Thread
Not sure what I am going to do tonight. Supposed to go to a Mardi Gras party, but the thought of being hungover tomorrow sounds like no fun, and the thought of going to a Mardi Gras party and being surrounded by drunks while I am sober sounds worse, so I think I will simply [...]
February 26, 2011
· John Cole · 119 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
You Can’t Blame DADT For This
This made me laugh: The USS Green Bay deploys on her maiden voyage.
February 26, 2011
· John Cole · 104 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Open Thread, Sports
A Question About DOMA
Sorry if this has already been addressed elsewhere, but I don’t know where to look. I thought that one of the key reasons that the DOJ was defending DOMA was not because Obama is some kind of bigot, but because it is the role of the DOJ to defend laws written and lawfully passed. It [...]
February 26, 2011
· John Cole · 281 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights
Don’t roll out the lifeline til they’re clean out of reach
Steve Benen on Republican governors turning down federal money for infrastructure projects: Keep in mind, it’s ideology, not practical concerns, that lie at the heart of these governors’ reactionary moves. The states turning down investments for high-speed rail, for example, were effectively handed a gift—jobs, economic development, improved infrastructure—but Republicans like Rick Scott and Scott [...]
February 26, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 84 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Hoot-Smalley
Solidarity rallies
Use this thread to talk about solidarity rallies. Also send me any pictures (or link to pictures in the thread) and I will post some if I get them before 1 today (I am going off the grid at around 1 pm today til about 10 pm tomorrow).
February 26, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 91 Comments
Posted in: Fuck The Middle-Class, Going Galt
First They Came for Rock and We Were Silent
What the fuck could be “Christian” about a big band and, more importantly, what’s next? A Christian klezmer band? The Jesus Christ Chamber Orchestra?
February 26, 2011
· mistermix · 79 Comments
Posted in: WTF?
The Reagan Mythology
The good folks at Think Progress have some startling news for wingnuts: As the Main Street Movement of students, workers, and other middle class Americans erupts across America, many conservatives have invoked the legacy of former president Ronald Reagan to demand that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker® not back down from his push to end collective [...]
February 26, 2011
· John Cole · 37 Comments
Posted in: I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Wingnut Event Horizon
I Don’t Understand These Humans
Chris Lee, the Congressman who used his real name to respond to a Craigslist ad, and resigned because of it, was also apparently using his real name when posting an ad on Craigslist for a “passable TS/CD (transexual/cross-dresser)”. Lee, who represented NY-26, and Eric Massa, who represented neighboring NY-29, were both married with children, and [...]
February 26, 2011
· mistermix · 58 Comments
Posted in: WTF?
Saturday Morning Open Thread
Best wishes and stout companions to all attending today’s solidarity rallies, and condolences to those kept away by inclement weather and the myriad other irritations of daily life. As a reminder, this week’s book discussion of NIXONLAND involves Chapters Eight and Nine, a mere thirty pages. Come join the conversation Sunday at 4pm EST, and [...]
February 26, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 26 Comments
Posted in: Music, Nixonland, Open Thread
My flight was cancelled because Al Gore is fat
I won’t be at the solidarity rally tomorrow after all because I got snowed in up here in fly-over country. So I thought I’d do a post of two unrelated items lacking the sturm und drang of most of the week’s topics. 1. Why isn’t this detail from Ian Murphy’s epic prank call getting more [...]
February 25, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 126 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Readership Capture
The Air Up There
Well done, Pennsylvania: Just a week after repealing a policy requiring an environmental assessment of Marcellus Shale gas well permit proposals in state parks, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has announced it is suspending and reconsidering key air pollution controls governing the drilling industry. The latest policy changes, detailed in today’s Pennsylvania Bulletin where [...]
February 25, 2011
· John Cole · 112 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Burkean bells, Free Markets Solve Everything
