Archive for March, 2011
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: I have some good news and some bad news. Tonight marks our last Thursday Night Menu. That’s the bad news. The good news is I’ll still be food blogging and I’ll still occasionally post full menus. I have at least a dozen recipes in the queue that I want to [...]
March 31, 2011
· 
Anne Laurie · 
38 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
The shock will probably kill you
How this brother keeps a Murdoch gig (via Wonkette) I’ll never know, but I need to read Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”. The GOP is anti-democracy: With the GOP, “this whole democracy thing” is “very inefficient,” warned Klein. Republican governors are using “a fiscal crisis as a pretext to do stuff they otherwise want to [...]
March 31, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 71 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Fucked-up-edness
Florida GOP: The word “uterus” is “inappropriate for children and other guests.”
Hell hath no fury like a vagina scorned. The GOP is scared of your crotch, ladies. I’m serious. Last week, during a debate on Florida legislation that would prevent union dues from being automatically deducted from government paychecks, Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) used his time during floor debate to call the GOP out on their hypocrisy. [...]
March 31, 2011
· ABL · 73 Comments
Posted in: Republican Stupidity, Vagina Outrage
Attention Black Ladies! Stop Having So Many Abortions Already! You Might Abort Our Next “Dear” Leader!!
Not to be outcrazied by Arizona, here comes TEXAS! Good news, y’all! Life Always, the Texas-based (but not reality-based) anti-abortion group responsible for the black genocide posters (pictured here) which were slapped up all over New York City a few weeks ago, and which prompted this bit of hilarity from Kristen Schaal and Larry Wilmore, [...]
March 31, 2011
· ABL · 57 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, KMBA, Vagina Outrage
Open Thread: NIXONLAND Update
(Ben Sargent cartoon via Gocomics.com) Speaking of Republican shenanigans, this week’s NIXONLAND discussion will take place Sunday evening at 7pm EDT, so people have a chance to take advantage of the later sunsets.* Chapters under discussion will be “Trust”, “If Gold Rust”, and “The Presidential Offensive”—closing with the unmasking of a murderous sociopath who ensnared [...]
March 31, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 27 Comments
Posted in: Nixonland, Open Thread
So, Apparently I Blew That One
It appears I was wrong to trust Lawrence O’Donnell, who should know better, as he is constantly pointing out his Senate experience, but he flat up lied about Paul and others: John Cole you are so willfully misled: 1. Senate Resolution 85 is non-binding; it DOES NOT have the force of law. 2. It was [...]
March 31, 2011
· John Cole · 87 Comments
Posted in: Corrections
Mulva? Dolores?
You can not make this shit up: During last week’s discussion about a bill that would prohibit governments from deducting union dues from a worker’s paycheck, state Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando, used his time during floor debate to argue that Republicans are against regulations—except when it comes to the little guys, or serves their specific [...]
March 31, 2011
· John Cole · 44 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity, Vagina Outrage
Tea and sympathy
Nate Silver looks at the polls and says the Tea Party is genuinely growing unpopular among most Americans. Obviously, I’m no fan of teatards and I think that the American public is right to look unfavorably at them. But also too I think this is happening because the media has branded the Tea Party as [...]
March 31, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 50 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
Yes Dear, I Do Remember When Women Were People Too
Blogging in haste whilst waiting out the sprout’s martial arts class, this from the ACLU blog seems an excruciatingly appropriate follow up to ABL’s post below: On December 23, 2010, [Bei Bei] Shuai, a 34-year-old pregnant woman who was suffering from a major depressive disorder, attempted to take her own life. Friends found her in [...]
March 31, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 58 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Vagina Outrage
Open Thread
Took some pictures today of Rosie, and am emailing them to my friend who places dogs. I can’t take it any more. I’ve earned my star in heaven 72 virgins paid my debts to society and now I need this dog out of my life. I want my old life back with just Tunch and [...]
March 31, 2011
· John Cole · 79 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging
Gates on the Hill
If anyone watched the full testimony, if you can think of anything else that stood out, please fill us all in. However, I really liked this: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told Congress on Thursday that he opposed having the United States arm the Libyan rebels fighting Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and that it was up [...]
March 31, 2011
· John Cole · 97 Comments
Posted in: War
Shamelessness
Although I am skeptical about the Libya stuff, the shamelessness of some of the critics has been simply ridiculous. People who, like me, cheered on the invasion of Iraq, are now running around screaming about the “imperial Presidency” and other crap like that. It’s absurd. I’m not sure we are doing the right thing or [...]
March 31, 2011
· John Cole · 276 Comments
Posted in: War
Everybody get in line
Open thread, I figured we could use one.
March 31, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 100 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Am I the Only One To Find This Creepy
And opportunistic: Representative Gabrielle Giffords is still in the hospital, but some of her most ardent backers are so enamored of the idea of her running for the Senate that they describe the inevitable campaign commercials: the deep-voiced narrator recounting what happened to her, the images of her wounded, then recovering and speaking into the [...]
March 31, 2011
· John Cole · 87 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Politics
More of This, Please
Hats off to Jake Tapper for this exchange: The temperature in the White House briefing jumped up Wednesday afternoon as Jake Tapper and Jay Carney vented some of their frustrations with each other publicly. At one point, Tapper dissed Carney by saying he could provide a “room full of straw men” for the White House [...]
March 31, 2011
· John Cole · 172 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
