Archive for April, 2011
We’re the kind of country that’s built to last
I love that Jonathan Hari article that John linked to earlier. Sometimes I wonder. Consider: Sarah Palin told cheering rallies that her message to the world was: “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way!”[....]On Libya, he (Donald Trump) says: “I would go in and take the oil… I would take the [...]
April 30, 2011
· 
Angry DougJ · 
122 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
Things I Really Wish Were Online, Progressive Self-Sabotage Edition
In the November 2010 issue of Harpers, Susan Faludi published “American Electra: Feminism’s ritual matricide“: No one who has been engaged in feminist politics and thought for any length of time can be oblivious to an abiding aspect of the modern women’s movement in America—that so often, and despite its many victories, it seems to [...]
April 30, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 246 Comments
Posted in: Crab Bucket Politics, Decline and Fall
Get the Fuck Off My Obstacle!
This epic smackdown of Trump and the GOP is a must read: Since the election of Barack Obama, the Republican Party has proved that one of its central intellectual arguments was right all along. It has long claimed that evolution is a myth believed in only by whiny liberals – and it turns out it [...]
April 30, 2011
· John Cole · 133 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links
I’ll Give Him a Little Credit
Well done, Mittens: Expected Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney tread on socially dangerous ground last night as he talked about the need to “hang” a misery index around the neck of Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president. Romney almost immediately caught himself, with the English major declaring “metaphorically” speaking, but the mix of nervous [...]
April 30, 2011
· John Cole · 199 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Post-racial America, Sociopaths
#1, Obviously
Long piece on libertarianism at LOOG, which concludes with the following: So what’s going on here? Why do libertarians deviate so strongly from our supposed class interests? These interests, remember, demand that we (1) love eminent domain (2) love the Drug War and (3) love the Forever War. Among others. For a devotee of class [...]
April 30, 2011
· John Cole · 133 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism
Pay No Attention to the Invisible Hand Behind the Curtain!
Charles Blow points out why “Silliness & Sleight of Hand” have been the GOP’s resort-of-the-newscycle: Donald Trump is still playing to suspicions of President Obama. And it’s no longer theoretical. It’s theological. For the detractors, truth is no longer dependent on proof because it’s rooted in faith: faith that American exceptionalism was never truly meant [...]
April 30, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 96 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, C.R.E.A.M., Excellent Links
White Rappers Make Me Laugh
(Click to embiggen) Looks like we need an open thread. Am I the only one who thinks this kind of stuff is funny as hell? In the same vein, this cover cracks me up. (From Reddit, where else?)
April 30, 2011
· mistermix · 32 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Law-Abiding Hypocrites
Let’s wring our hands, because some Democrats are using the same laws Karl Rove used in 2010 to create their own giant anonymous PAC full of corporate money: The effort is modeled on the one Republicans started last year — with help from the Republican strategist Karl Rove — that attacked Democrats with a barrage of [...]
April 30, 2011
· mistermix · 36 Comments
Posted in: Lizard blogging, Our Failed Media Experiment
Early Morning Open Thread
I was looking for a listenable version of Tom Paxton’s “The Hostage” (for Sunday’s NIXONLAND discussion), and found this instead. For curious youngsters, the song he mentions at the end of this clip is called “Talking Vietnam Pot Luck Blues”...
April 30, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 30 Comments
Posted in: Music, Open Thread
Credit where credit is due…
I wrote last night about the Washington Post hosting Donald Trump as their guest at this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The responsibility for this decision belongs to the Publisher, Katharine Weymouth. The Trump invitation has stunned many folks at the Washington Post and some are speaking out. Ezra Klein tweeted that it was “embarrassing”, [...]
April 29, 2011
· Dennis G. · 62 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Our Failed Media Experiment
Cowardly Culture Warrior Mitch Daniels Makes His Move
When Mitch Daniels said he wanted to end the culture wars, he meant start one: Republican Governor Mitch Daniels released a statement Friday afternoon saying he will sign legislation stripping federal funds from Planned Parenthood in Indiana, the first state to make such a move. “We do around 500 pap tests a week,” Indiana Planned [...]
April 29, 2011
· Kay · 112 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
So long and thanks for all the fisks
This will be my last post at Balloon Juice. I want to thank John for inviting me to write here. It’s been quite a ride. Lately, however, I have begun to find that I am simply spread too thin. I need to spend more time reading and thinking and taking my time. Less arguing, more [...]
April 29, 2011
· E.D. Kain · 190 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
Shorter David Brooks
“The government I’m doing my best to destroy actually does useful shit, but let me also say something stupid and wingnutty. ”
April 29, 2011
· John Cole · 50 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Sociopaths
Open Thread
Seems like there have been very few flame wars lately, so I will offer this up. If anyone had gone through what I am going through the past five months to get crossfirex running with two ati radeon HD-5870’s, you would understand completely why Apple computers, while not doing everything you want and having limited [...]
April 29, 2011
· John Cole · 277 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Science and Technology, Sociopaths
Two thoughts on the big day
1. Events like this should be like the World Cup of streaking, and yet the whole thing went off without a hitch. I expected better of the Brits. 2. Nobody thinks about strategic alliances anymore. It seems to me that England gains little from marrying a figurehead to some other fruit of English nobility, an [...]
April 29, 2011
· Tim F. · 123 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
