Archive for August, 2011
On “Outing” Apple’s New CEO
Last Thursday, Reuters economics blogger Felix Salmon posted “Don’t ignore Tim Cook’s sexuality“: Tim Cook is now the most powerful gay man in the world. This is newsworthy, no? But you won’t find it reported in any legacy/mainstream outlet. And when the FT‘s Tim Bradshaw did no more than broach the subject in a single [...]
August 29, 2011
· 
Anne Laurie · 
90 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Science and Technology
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor?
I’d gladly do it. We got to get ABL back here somehow! Also too, I love begging and hoping-against-hope songs, so I’m making this a regular feature until ABL comes back. Jewish Steel is a big Clapton fan and requested I start with this one. What are your favorite beg-you-to-take-me-back songs?
August 29, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 153 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Music, Readership Capture
Very superstitious, writing’s on the wall
I try to be rational, but the ghosts and weeping effigies get to me sometimes. I can’t shake this feeling that a full-on teahadist will be the Republican nominee in 2012, that it will probably be Rick Perry, and that it may not even be close. While much of this article is stupid (e.g., VPs [...]
August 29, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 73 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now
Monday Evening Open Thread
(Ted Rall’s blog) Things are tough all over: 527 group waned after Gingrich campaign imploded in June The Newt Gingrich money machine that raised $52 million in just four years to promote his ideas and image, American Solutions for Winning the Future, has quietly gone belly up. _ Gingrich set up the 527 group in [...]
August 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 53 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything, Open Thread
Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You
Analysts predict a run on crayons: It’s official: Michele Bachmann has a book deal. Sentinel, a conservative imprint of Penguin Group (USA), announced Monday that the Republican presidential candidate’s memoir will arrive in November and already has been completed. The book, reports of which first circulated in June, is currently untitled. Sentinel declined comment on [...]
August 29, 2011
· John Cole · 230 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Our Failed Media Experiment, She Has The Electrolytes We Need
“The terrorists lost. But who won?”
Frank Rich has an excellent, elegiac essay in New York Magazine’s “Encyclopedia of 9/11” issue: It was “the day that changed everything,” until it didn’t. Even in the immediate aftermath, you could see that 9/11 was less momentous for some Americans who were at a safe remove from the carnage and grief. By late September, [...]
August 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 71 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, An Unexamined Scandal, Excellent Links
The shape of things to come
Another poll out showing Perry with a big lead nationally in the Republican primary. Recently, Perry signed one of those nutty anti-marriage equality pledges. Perry is a big fan of Glenn Beck favorite Cleon Skousen. One way or another, this is the year Millerism/Anglism/O’Donnellism goes national. If Perry implodes, some other kook will crank it [...]
August 29, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 59 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley, Perry-tinnitus
Today in Assholes
Literally: Arango’s excuse for posting pics of himself on gay/bi hookup phone ap Grindr—including one of him bent over, cheeks spread, senatorial asshole winking at the camera—isn’t as catchy as “hiking the Appalachian Trail” or “lifting your luggage.” Those two were pure poetry. But Arango’s excuse is delightful in its own way: Arango wasn’t looking [...]
August 29, 2011
· mistermix · 80 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Gay Rights are Human Rights
Fantasy Football League Open Thread
A note from the commissioner: Football is back! Hello everybody….MattT here, “the Commish.” It’s time to get the BJFL Fantasy Football League rolling again! And just in time….without a little gridiron distraction I think the Bachmann/Perry clash of idiocy is going to drive me nuts. This year I’m going to cut back and only manage [...]
August 29, 2011
· John Cole · 18 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Today In Glibertarianism
Let’s just do a round-up of stupid shit from Galt’s Gulch rejects. 1.) First, the low-hanging fruit (from the Hunting of the Snark by way of TBOGG): 2.) Also via TBOGG, we learn that the Galtian hunters who eat what they kill feel that they are under-appreciated in their cushy finance jobs. The poor bastards. [...]
August 29, 2011
· John Cole · 107 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Free Markets Solve Everything, Glibertarianism, Technically True but Collectively Nonsense
The Next Confirmation Battle
According to the Times: Alan B. Krueger, a Princeton University professor who recently served as chief economist for the United States Treasury, was tapped on Monday by President Obama to head the Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Krueger, 50, was probably chosen in part for his award-winning research on the job market, an asset at [...]
August 29, 2011
· John Cole · 111 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Open Thread: Let all the children boogie, Doctor
Philip Sandifer at Tardis Eruditorium sent me scurrying to watch Mr Bowie on Top of the Pops. Those eyes, those lips, those hips, all mine again for three more minutes, with little Micky Ronson sidling into shot just like he sidled through the bedroom door that wet Sunday afternoon in David’s suite in the Dorchester, [...]
August 29, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 43 Comments
Posted in: Music, Open Thread, Television
Lean Times for the Banks
I know you will attack me for being simplistic, but these people make me want to vomit: Battered by a weak economy, the nation’s biggest banks are cutting jobs, consolidating businesses and scrambling for new sources of income in anticipation of a fundamentally altered financial landscape requiring leaner operations. Bank executives and analysts had expected [...]
August 29, 2011
· John Cole · 111 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything
Midmorning thread
Experts agree that the most important habit of effective people is to start off the week with the right attitude. #2: when you have a task, do it right or stay home. Believe it or not, somewhere in that mess he’s holding a ball. Use this thread to share your own strategy for success. Or [...]
August 29, 2011
· Tim F. · 24 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Open Thread
Remember Wikileaks?
Wikileaks has released another 100,000 cables, and they’ve created a page with 30 new revelations. I thought the China ones were most interesting: “The following is neither an overstatement nor is it hyperbole. It is a fact. The contaminated waters of the Pearl River and other water sources in Guangdong are as serious a threat [...]
August 29, 2011
· mistermix · 116 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
