Archive for May, 2011

Left Behind

by John Cole

Interesting news in the mideast: Hundreds of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip arrived here by the busload on Saturday to pass through the reopened border into Egypt, taking the first tangible steps out of a four-year Israeli blockade. “I feel this is the start of freedom,” said Hasna el-Ryes, 45, a Gaza resident waiting [...]

May 28, 2011 · John Cole · 85 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs

The Beast In Me*

by Tom Levenson

I’m still enjoying that special lassitude that comes from trying to persuade my bone marrow to pump out enough red blood cells to deal with the oxygen pressure at 2,600 meters—Hello Bogota!.... ...but I’ve been watching this blog go ape over the last few days (in a good way) and feel the need to see [...]

May 28, 2011 · Tom Levenson · 66 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized

Champions League Final Open Thread

by Randinho

Sorry to have been away from posting, but we’ve had some issues to deal with as well as a vacation to Portugal, where I had the pleasure to be in Porto when FC Porto won the Portuguese Cup and was about an hour away from Porto when they won the Europa League Championship. More on [...]

May 28, 2011 · Randinho · 59 Comments
Posted in: Sports

Open Thread

by mistermix

Cleek reminded me yesterday about a local band called Muler. All proceeds from their current album go to a worth charity, and Bandcamp gives you a free listen, so if you’re interested, give it a shot. A lot of indy bands are using Bandcamp and I really like it. It lets you listen to a [...]

May 28, 2011 · mistermix · 34 Comments
Posted in: Music, Open Thread

Painful Facts

by mistermix

Yesterday there were some questions in the comments about how big the vouchers would be under the Ryan plan. I had tossed off $15,000 as the number, but some people thought it was $8,000. I asked our resident non-lazy blogger, Kay, because, well, I’m lazy. Kay pointed me to the CBO letter to St. Paul [...]

May 28, 2011 · mistermix · 122 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse

Open Thread (the bloghost is on the bottle edition)

by John Cole

Being a child of the 80’s, shit like this just happens after a couple drinks: It sounds really good with tequila. *** Update *** Never let you down with the stereo sound: Rooster: I just love the Talking Heads, but what is it about this song that just makes it so likable: And just like [...]

May 28, 2011 · John Cole · 93 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Music, Open Thread

RIP, Gil Scott-Heron

by John Cole

Dead at 62: But it ain’t over:

May 27, 2011 · John Cole · 45 Comments
Posted in: Music, Open Thread

Open Thread

by John Cole

What a long day. Didn’t get back from the hospital until 7:30, and then had to do some stuff around the house before heading over to a party at my friend’s house. Saw an empty laptop and said to myself- I think I need to check in on the folks. Actually- I am at the [...]

May 27, 2011 · John Cole · 188 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

People hate extremist Republicans

by Angry DougJ

The approval numbers for Rick Scott, Scott Walker, and John Kasich are pretty remarkable. I should clarify that the approval numbers for Walker aren’t quite as bad as or Kasich and Scott, but a slight plurality favors recalling Walker, which is bad news for any incumbent. Democrats have taken a tiny lead in the generic [...]

May 27, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 79 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives

Friday night with the dog

by Tim F.

Max and his friend Axel (right) do their usual pre-play dance. I shit you not, this can take ten minutes. Max prefers to stalk so slowly that you have to look away and back again to see that he moved. Axel will stay perfectly still and then scoot forward on his belly one foot at [...]

May 27, 2011 · Tim F. · 19 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging

Friday night book and open thread

by Sarah Proud and Tall

I love books, almost as much as I love authors, and have spent much of my life collecting as many of both as I could. Frankly, however, my authors have often been a bit of a disappointment in the sack. Not Hemingway, of course. During the years where I was undercover as Castro’s mistress (Fidel [...]

May 27, 2011 · Sarah Proud and Tall · 97 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Books, Open Thread

The “500 billion” attack is back, and it’s wearing white shoes

by Kay

This fact-check piece is about a series of lies Pat Boone is being paid to tell about Ryan’s plan to end Medicare. Not particularly interesting or remarkable: a conservative group (60 Plus) retained a paid hack to go out and spread the gospel. But. This one lie he’s telling should probably get some attention, because [...]

May 27, 2011 · Kay · 52 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Corrections, Domestic Affairs, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

The GOP: A Gang, Not A Party

by Anne Laurie

(Ben Sargent via Gocomics.com) Further to Tim F’s post, Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly points out how “McConnell puts Medicare in the ransom note“: The Republican debt-ceiling strategy hasn’t been subtle: GOP officials are threatening to cause a recession, on purpose, unless Democrats give them the spending cuts they want. It’s Hostage Taking 101… [...]

May 27, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 172 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Republican Venality

Do not go gentle under that good bus

by Angry DougJ

Gin and Tacos asks and answers: Even among the unpopular solutions, why would they propose something like Medicare cuts – let’s be honest, even the GOP knows this is political suicide – before tax increases, defense spending cuts, and so on? The answer is pretty obvious: because when the chips are down, they will stab [...]

May 27, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 131 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Lindsey Graham's Fee Fees, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts

I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for fuckin’ nothing. I’m not gonna do it.

by Tim F.

It makes perfect sense to have some limit on how high government debt can get. You can’t have a situation where some poorly thought out program or budgeting accident runs up the national debt like a tween with no texting plan on her phone. After all, Congress can always raise the limit when the need [...]

May 27, 2011 · Tim F. · 122 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Republican Stupidity, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility

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