Archive for May, 2011

Open Thread: When Everything Changed

by Anne Laurie

So, I will put up the first thread to talk about Gail Collins’ When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present on Wednesday, June 8, at 8pm EDT. Part I, the first three chapters, is just 60 pages, but we’ll see how far everyone gets… My paperback copy reprints [...]

May 29, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 40 Comments
Posted in: Books, Open Thread, When Everything Changed

Giving the Dog a Bone

by John Cole

It’s been about 48 hours since someone sent a photo of an engorged under-wear clad penis from Anthony Weiner’s twitter account seemingly directed at some young co-ed, and right-wingers are in a tizzy: One thing is for sure, we can expect these intrepid sleuths to tug on every lead, massaging the facts until they get [...]

May 29, 2011 · John Cole · 160 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To

And In Other News…WASF

by Tom Levenson

Just got round to Richard Wolff’s Friday column at Guardian.com, and he paints a macrocosmic view of why the US is in such deep trouble—and why it matters in a two party system when (a) both parties draw from essentially similar financial bases of support, and (b) one of those two parties decides to crash [...]

May 29, 2011 · Tom Levenson · 100 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor

Dog Rescue Bleg – Memphis Area

by Anne Laurie

From commentor DeeLoralei: I’m in desperate need of someone to rescue a great Border Collie, a three year old female, her name is Elliot and she’s a super terrific dog who needs a new loving home. She keeps picking fights with a female pit bull she lives with and she keeps losing those fights. Tonight [...]

May 29, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 15 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Pet Rescue

Today in Santorum

by mistermix

Apparently, Rick Santorum has a Twitter problem along with his Google problem. (via) Also, too: Dog pee can’t stop Santorum.

May 29, 2011 · mistermix · 51 Comments
Posted in: Assholes

We Are All ADHD Now

by mistermix

ED had an interesting video on his site about educational reform, and it mentioned that ADHD is a bit of a regional phenomenon. I wondered if that was true, so I took a look and found that not only is ADHD regional, but it’s also a growing “epidemic”: Here’s 2003 (click to embiggen). This is [...]

May 29, 2011 · mistermix · 134 Comments
Posted in: Education

An American in Moscow

by Sarah Proud and Tall

Amid shouts from gangs of men and threats of beatings, police officers arrested more than a dozen gay rights activists, including a few foreigners, who attempted to hold a rally in Moscow on Saturday. Among the arrested were Dan Choi, an American Iraq war veteran and gay rights campaigner, and Andy Thayer, a Chicago-based activist, [...]

May 29, 2011 · Sarah Proud and Tall · 80 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Gay Rights are Human Rights

Somehow this got past Fred Hiatt

by Dennis G.

A few days ago, an environmentalist who thinks Climate Change is big problem got an opinion piece in the Washington Post. His name is Bill McKibben and I think he managed to get it pass Fred Hiatt with snark. For example: Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of [...]

May 29, 2011 · Dennis G. · 48 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Our Failed Media Experiment

Technical / YouTube Bleg

by Anne Laurie

Somehow I have lost the ability to use the ‘embed’ function on YouTube… I can still load a clip and watch it, no problem, but when I hit the ‘Share’ button my machine goes into the Infinite White Screen of Nothingness. I’m using Firefox 3.xx, and I’m guessing some subroutine has corrupted itself / been [...]

May 29, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 26 Comments
Posted in: Bleg

I’m not waiting on a lady

by Angry DougJ

I’ve come to realize that it’s pathetic for me to to hope that Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann will get into the Republican primary. My support for anything that pisses off David Brooks is no better than conservatives’ support or anything that pisses off liberals. Anyway, I suspect that Steve M. has it right on [...]

May 29, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 65 Comments
Posted in: Politics, We Are All Mayans Now

Views differ

by Angry DougJ

Sometimes I want to go home, sit in a hot bath, and open my veins. A self-described liberal at the liberal Washington Post: But the killing of Osama bin Laden four weeks ago has revived the old debate about whether torture works. Could it be that “enhanced interrogation techniques” employed during the George W. Bush [...]

May 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 42 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now

Anti-Breastfeeding Ordinance in Forest Park, Georgia Angers the Uterati

by ABL

First our uteri, and now our milk-filled tatas? Whatever happened to Our Bodies, Our Selves? Lawmakers in Forest Park, Georgia recently passed a law banning all public nudity, except for live theatrical performances and women who breastfeed infants under the age of two. Wha!? Really? I don’t get it, y’all. John Mayer said that our [...]

May 28, 2011 · ABL · 305 Comments
Posted in: Vagina Outrage

The GOP’s ‘Uncle’ Joe Biden?

by Anne Laurie

Dave Weigel at Slate has a post on the latest CNN poll of likely GOP voters’ opinions of likely GOP candidates, which mostly announces the unimpeachable: Republicans are still hungering after a knight on a white horse to save them; “serious” candidates Pawlenty and Gingrich can’t break out of the single digits, even with all [...]

May 28, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 72 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Open Thread, Republican Stupidity

Because We Haven’t Had An xkcd Open Thread For A While

by Tom Levenson

Honi soit qui mal y pense: I got the heads up to this from John Sundman, a Twitter buddy, (@jsundmanus) who complains that it “is factually wrong; an astoundingly rare occurrence.”  Guess why.  (Sundman’s answer after the jump.)

May 28, 2011 · Tom Levenson · 61 Comments
Posted in: Humor, Open Thread, Sports

I Blame the Gays

by John Cole

Also too, single people: Three mornings a week, when Becky Leung gets ready for work, her boyfriend is just getting home from his overnight job. When her mother drops hints about her twin sister’s marriage, she laughs it off. And when she thinks about getting married herself, she worries first about her career. Leung, 27, [...]

May 28, 2011 · John Cole · 82 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs

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