Archive for July, 2011
Reader video
As we await the excitement of the House vote on the Boehner plan, let’s entertain ourselves with a new reader video, from the band Super Duper. Update. The reader is a member of the band, that’s how these things work.
July 28, 2011
· 
Angry DougJ · 
53 Comments
Posted in: Music, Readership Capture
Why do bad things keep happening to Rupert Murdoch?
Oops: Britain was awash in a new surge of outrage over the phone hacking scandal on Thursday, as news emerged that Scotland Yard had added to the list of probable victims a woman whose 8-year-old daughter was murdered by a repeat sex offender in 2000. The tabloid at the center of the scandal, The News [...]
July 28, 2011
· Kay · 97 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
Facing a court case when the child’s support late
Is there a better poster child for all that’s wrong with teahadism than this clown? Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a tax-bashing Tea Party champion who sharply lectures President Barack Obama and other Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children, according to documents his ex-wife [...]
July 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 88 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
Wisconsin recall bleg
I’m looking for pound notes, loose change, bad checks, anything.
July 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 23 Comments
Posted in: Bleg, C.R.E.A.M.
There is no future in England’s dreaming
The British are learning just how awesome Hooverism is right now too: A slowdown in Britain’s growth in the second quarter means that the economy is weaker than thought and has no chance of meeting its official growth target this year. The eagerly awaited preliminary GDP estimate for April to June showed the economy growing [...]
July 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 154 Comments
Posted in: The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, The Math Demands It, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, We Are All Mayans Now
Open Thread
I know that you all are quivering with anticipation to learn which Baker’s Rack I purchased, so here it is. I got the silver one with the butcher block. A little pricier than some of the suggestions you all made, but I saw the one from target you all were recommending and it was a [...]
July 28, 2011
· John Cole · 46 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
John Keynes’ body
I think that Washington’s embrace of Hooverism is of a piece with its embrace of global warming denialism. Once upon a time we were all Keynesians, just as once upon a time Tim Pawlenty and other Republicans supported a carbon tax. Then wealthy interests decided they didn’t want increased government spending during a recession, just [...]
July 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 67 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Fools! Overton Window!
We are all Herbert Hoover now
Don’t expect the economy to get better anytime soon: Whatever the validity of their arguments, for now the anti-Keynesians have prevailed. Part of the reason is optics: at a time when citizens are cutting back, it looks good to engage in a bit of sympathy rhetoric about Washington “tightening its belt.” On Monday night even [...]
July 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 158 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Company Men
Good post on some post hoc editing at the Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg. This blind spot does not reflect well on James Fallows.
July 28, 2011
· John Cole · 76 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
Philosopher not Proctologist
Here’s a really uninspiring quote from the judge leading the inquiry into the phone hacking scandal: He said it was critical that the inquiry concentrated on “the central and most important issue”, adding the “focus of the inquiry is the culture practices and ethics of the press in the context of the latter’s relationship with [...]
July 28, 2011
· mistermix · 22 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
Spotify Lives Up to the Hype
For those of you looking for a distraction from the debt ceiling, here’s a review of Spotify after the break.
July 28, 2011
· mistermix · 45 Comments
Posted in: Music
Tea Party Republican Defaults on Child Support
A debt is what you owe, and renouncing it doesn’t make it go away: Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a tax-bashing Tea Party champion who sharply lectures President Barack Obama and other Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children, according to documents his ex-wife filed [...]
July 28, 2011
· Kay · 66 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
Thursday Morning Open Thread
(Ted Rall’s website) Tom Junod posted this in Esquire’s Political Blog two weeks ago, but I don’t think I’ve seen a better analogy for the GOPers’ intransigence since then: Ah, but that’s vision for you: Some men see the economic peril that is and say “Why?”; others dream of the economic peril that never was [...]
July 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 18 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Open Thread
Open Thread
Apparently there are no baker’s rack for sale at the Robinson Town Center in Pittsburgh. My friend’s flight came in at 10, so I went up way early to shop at Costco and look around. Imagine the thrill creeping up my leg at 8 when I arrived and the greeter told me they close at [...]
July 27, 2011
· John Cole · 101 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Memo to Hyperventilating Wingnuts
Cease your worrying and nattering—the question of whether xenophobic loners will have the freedom to cut-and-paste 1500 page racist missives in Norway after this weekend’s slaughter has been answered by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg: At a press conference at his Oslo residence, Stoltenberg underlined his commitment to openness, defending freedom of thought, even if includes [...]
July 27, 2011
· mistermix · 77 Comments
Posted in: Assholes
