Archive for August, 2011
I Like This Version Better
This is Jamison Foser’s edit of the Perry/Obama comparison picture (click to embiggen). I like it better than the one Libby Spencer made. It would be perfect if the title was something like “Let’s Not Get Fooled Again”. I realize that it’s less high-minded and more backward-looking, but it encapsulates the extremely simple, winning message [...]
August 29, 2011
· 
mistermix · 
110 Comments
Posted in: Perry-tinnitus, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
the new new hotness
So after a useful discussion of policy options and empirical distinctions in the comments of my last post, my usual trolls showed up and started flogging a new line: I am again misrepresenting Yglesias because he has no policy ideas in mind at all. According to them, when he titles a post “Public School Choice” [...]
August 29, 2011
· Freddie deBoer · 101 Comments
Posted in: Education
Monday Morning Open Thread
Maureen Dowd, self-appointed Queen Bee Mean Girl of the Villagers’ lunchroom, is the perfect reviewer for Darth Cheney’s new book: Vice’s new memoir, “In My Time,” veers unpleasantly between spin, insisting he was always right, and score-settling, insisting that anyone who opposed him was wrong. His knife-in-her-teeth daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, helped write the book. The [...]
August 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 24 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
She claimed that it just ain’t natural
I agree with Libby Spencer that Limbaugh’s Obama/Perry photo comparison is not only inaccurate and more-than-vaguely racist but also artificial, given that the pictures are 30+ years old. This is a better comparison and, yes, even in this gun-lovin’ NASCAR nation, Real Murkins don’t want Yosemite Sam in the White House (do they?):
August 29, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 61 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Hoot-Smalley
Sweet science
Both the NYT opinion pieces for tomorrow deal with religion and Republican attitudes towards science. I’ll tell you now, get it over, that I actually agree with Chunky Bobo here: Finally, journalists should remember that Republican politicians have usually been far more adept at mobilizing their religious constituents than those constituents have been at claiming [...]
August 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 96 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness, Hoot-Smalley
Sunday Evening Open Thread
(Ballard Street via GoComics.com) I’m actually pleased that Irene has been a severe disappointment to the television weathermongers, since there’s been enough damage and disruption to satisfy the rest of us, thankyewverymuch. How’s the upcoming week looking in your area, with or without existential moments?
August 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 102 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Open Thread
It’s hard out there for a pimp
Tbogg is right, soon these guys will be teaching third-graders and moving their own lawns: One investment banker who participated in the survey described a breach of the “tacit understanding” that he or she would be well compensated. Considering “the sacrifice I make in my personal life (100-hour work weeks, canceled vacations, etc.), this business [...]
August 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 94 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M.
clarification and student mobility
Fairness prompts me to direct you to this post from Matt Yglesias, who feels that my earlier response to him misrepresented his views. I’ve never been one for half apologies, and I do think that a lot of what I said was and is relevant to his points. (I really hate the “I’m sorry if [...]
August 28, 2011
· Freddie deBoer · 114 Comments
Posted in: Education
What the Hell is He Talking About?
I’ve read this Frank Bruni stream of consciousness about three times now, and I swear I can’t figure out the point of it.
August 28, 2011
· John Cole · 77 Comments
Tags: Don't Eat the Brown Acid · Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
Then they came for the overpriced produce…then they came for the sports network
As a first step towards following all the right-wing fantasies that dominate our discourse, I’m trying to keep track of what wingers are boycotting right now. Whole Foods is in trouble because somebody suggested Muslims could buy food there during Ramadan if they wanted to. ESPN is in trouble because they told one of their [...]
August 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 111 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now
Eternal Vigilance…
... is the condition upon which God hath given liberty to man, you know. And while “liberty” is rapidly rising to the level of “patriotic” as a word as hollow as Annie Dillard’s frog, all of John Philpot Curran’s fury still holds when we’re talking the defense of our own minds in the face of [...]
August 28, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 44 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, The Money Party
Howard Dean, Libya and Being “Anti-War”
Howard Dean is a fairly vocal supporter of the Libyan intervention: “It’s very smart. You don’t put boots on the ground. You don’t commit trillions of dollars to a war in Iraq,” he said. “You do it with the other tools that we have that frankly work much better over the long term because you don’t [...]
August 28, 2011
· mistermix · 126 Comments
Posted in: War
All The Bullshit That Is Fit to Print
Why, yes, readers! That is in fact an op-ed piece in the Politico by… Chuck Norris.
August 28, 2011
· John Cole · 58 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
Hooray! We Got Him!
We just killed another terrorist you and I have never heard of, and presumably this time we win: A drone operated by the Central Intelligence Agency killed Al Qaeda’s second-ranking figure in the mountains of Pakistan on Monday, American and Pakistani officials said Saturday, further damaging a terrorism network that appears significantly weakened since the [...]
August 28, 2011
· John Cole · 212 Comments
Posted in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
This Kind Of Thing Drives Me Crazy
Americans do love a show: US President Barack Obama warned the US east coast was in for a “long 72 hours” as he led his government’s response to Hurricane Irene at a disaster command center in Washington. Obama on Saturday chaired a meeting at the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) set up at the Federal [...]
August 28, 2011
· John Cole · 86 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Our Failed Media Experiment
