Archive for March, 2011
Patriot games
Here’s what will happen in the Republican primary… There will be an early clown show, filled with debates where everyone swears their allegiance to young earth creationism. Then gradually a front-runner will appear and we will be told that this front-runner is a serious person. There may be a Sister Souljah where this serious person [...]
March 30, 2011
· 
Angry DougJ · 
181 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Good News For Conservatives
Here’s Another Open Thread
Since I obviously just spent the last ten minutes trolling my own website. Again. Sorry, I’m cranky and some times I seriously can not help myself.
March 30, 2011
· John Cole · 118 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Balls and Strikes
I wish this were surprising: A bitterly divided Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a jury verdict won by a New Orleans man who spent 14 years on death row and came within weeks of execution because prosecutors had hidden a blood test and other evidence that would have proven his innocence. The 5-4 decision [...]
March 30, 2011
· John Cole · 95 Comments
Posted in: Assholes
But This Time It is Different
Can anyone deny this: Whatever one thinks about the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya—some substantial portion of my readers support it, though Republicans are more enthused about the U.S. taking a leading role—it has unquestionably departed far from the claims that were made about it in the beginning. The no-fly zone was established [...]
March 30, 2011
· John Cole · 78 Comments
Posted in: War, WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
Open Thread
I’m so damned stressed out right now I think I could explode. Oh, and Rosie has another eye infection. There’s another 50 bucks.
March 30, 2011
· John Cole · 37 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Put your hand in the hand of the man who caused the financial crisis
Does Mr. Mitchell really think anyone is listening to him at this point? Today’s competitive markets, whether we seek to recognise it or not, are driven by an international version of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” that is unredeemably opaque. With notably rare exceptions (2008, for example), the global “invisible hand” has created relatively stable exchange [...]
March 30, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 91 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Free Markets Solve Everything
California tumbles into the sea
No one could have predicted: Gov. Jerry Brown announced this afternoon he halted negotiations with legislative Republicans over a deal to place taxes on the ballot to help resolve California’s remaining $15.4 billion deficit. A June election appears to be off the table entirely. Brown is no longer pursuing a two-thirds vote for a June [...]
March 30, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 83 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now
Divide it in sections and then give it away
Republican governors have a very strange relationship with federal rail money: Less than four months after losing nearly all of an $810 million grant, Wisconsin is again seeking federal high-speed rail money – this time to upgrade the existing Milwaukee-to-Chicago passenger line. Gov. Scott Walker’s administration announced Tuesday that the state will seek at least [...]
March 30, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 60 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
The Value of Never Learning Anything Ever
Is that you get to do the same stupid shit with the same predictable outcome over and over again, and each time you can shrug your shoulders and say “Hoocoodanode!”: The Obama administration is engaged in a fierce debate over whether to supply weapons to the rebels in Libya, senior officials said on Tuesday, with [...]
March 30, 2011
· John Cole · 333 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness, hoocoodanode, War
Fuckedushima
The president of TEPCO is in the hospital, suffering from dizziness and hypertension, perhaps because the Japanese government is saying that all of the Fukishima Daiichi plants should be scrapped. Scrapping 1-4 is pretty much a foregone conclusion, since they’re a contaminated mess: One major problem, said Murray E. Jennex, an associate professor at San [...]
March 30, 2011
· mistermix · 68 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness
And When You Starve To Death, John Boehner Will Become Enlightened
From the Bittman piece Anne Laurie highlighted below: [...] But as hungry as I may get, we know I’ll eat well soon. [...]Many poor people don’t have that option, and Beckmann and his co-organizers are calling for God to create a “circle of protection” around them. Some are fasting for a day, many for longer. [...]
March 30, 2011
· mistermix · 126 Comments
Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids
Turning Anger Into Action
Via commentor Barkleyg in DougJ’s earlier post, the We Are One / April 4 website: On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he had gone to stand with sanitation workers demanding their dream: The right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a better life. The [...]
March 30, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 12 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Excellent Links
Is the education reform tide turning?
I find that many of my posts at American Times are pretty cynical – what with the apparently coordinated assault on teachers form one state to the next – but there has been one piece of good news lately: president Obama has come out agains the current standardized-testing regime. This is good news for public [...]
March 30, 2011
· E.D. Kain · 44 Comments
Tags: Barack Obama, education policy, education reform, standardized testing · Posted in: Education
I’ll Take Godwin for $1,000: Wisconsin Rule of Law Edition*
Pre-publication update: Yes, I know that John has already posted on this while I made the error of dining with my wife. But I just love the picture below too much not to press the button. Do not mess with justice, I say. Via TPM, we find that Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi (echoing a [...]
March 29, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 132 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, IOKIYAR
Tuesday Evening Open Thread
Great Elizabeth Taylor quote: “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” (via Simon Doonan at Slate) *********** What’s the annoying stuff in your corner of the world tonight?
March 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 60 Comments
Posted in: Absent Friends, Open Thread
