Archive for September, 2011

Pull The Motherfucking Plug Like It’s a Weed

by John Cole

Just had a very bizarre conversation with Walt and Seth, as we were talking about last wills and preferences (we’re all single). I told them (they already knew, so I was not breaking news) that my will had them as being given strict instructions to pull that fucking life support if I was brain dead [...]

September 30, 2011 · John Cole · 122 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

Apparently Everyone is AWOL

by John Cole

So sorry to neglect you all. I’ve been busy all day and just had no time to post. My good friends Harry and Chatman are having a fundraiser tomorrow for Dreams of Hope, which is a Pittsburgh based organization that works to develop lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied youth leaders who promote social change [...]

September 30, 2011 · John Cole · 142 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Open Thread

Open Thread: Large Easy Target

by Anne Laurie

Back in the spotlight, Newton… Fort Dodge, Ia. – Same-sex marriage is a temporary aberration that will dissipate, Newt Gingrich said here today. “I believe that marriage is between a man and woman,” Gingrich said. “It has been for all of recorded history and I think this is a temporary aberration that will dissipate. I [...]

September 30, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 81 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Open Thread, Readership Capture, Republican Stupidity

There’s that number again

by Kay

It’s odd how public figures can make a series of untrue or insane statements, and they don’t get hurt by them, and then they go one more, and it sticks. Is it cumulative, or does the one statement (which is not really any crazier than all the others) just resonate? I don’t know that she [...]

September 30, 2011 · Kay · 154 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor

Changing Business Model

by John Cole

Wonder what the fallout here will be: Bank of America, the nation’s biggest bank, said on Thursday that it planned to start charging customers a $5 monthly fee when they used their debit cards for purchases. It was just one of several new charges expected to hit consumers as new regulations crimp banks’ profits. Wells [...]

September 30, 2011 · John Cole · 261 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything

Good job

by Kay

I am cautiously optimistic: Earlier this year, Ohio Gov. John Kasich® signed a sweeping bill intended to make it harder to vote in his states’ elections. Kasich’s anti-voter law drastically cuts back on early voting and erects new barriers for absentee and even for election day voters. Today, however, opponents of Kasich’s war on voting [...]

September 30, 2011 · Kay · 33 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Democratic Stupidity, Domestic Affairs, Election 2011, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Our Failed Media Experiment, Republican Venality

Anwar Al-Awlaki Dead

by mistermix

Yemen says that US Citizen and Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki is dead. Awlaki is credited with inspiring or directing at least four plots on US soil in recent years – a shooting inside the Fort Hood military base, the failed Times Square bombing, the failed underwear bomber and a parcel bomb hidden inside a [...]

September 30, 2011 · mistermix · 606 Comments
Posted in: War

Give-a-Shitter Status: Broken

by mistermix

This graph shows the difference between Democratic and Republican enthusiasm. There are a number of ways to read this graph. Either we’re back in Nader for President territory going into the 2012 election, or Democrats are more disappointed with Obama than Republicans were with Bush right after Katrina. I’m sure after President Romney and his [...]

September 30, 2011 · mistermix · 218 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity

Bobo decoded

by Angry DougJ

You know that I know that you I know that I have a serious David Brooks problem. So I’m going to try to a new thing: I read all of his columns and summarize each one in 80 words or less. I shut up about him the rest of the tie. I will warn you [...]

September 29, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 111 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute

GOP’s War on Women Careens Onward; Obama Administration Throws Up Roadblocks

by ABL

Republicans are trying to climb inside your uterus again. During the last budget showdown, the Republicans showed America its battle-plan in the War on Women: the GOP is trying like hell to defund Planned Parenthood.  At the time, I wrote the following: I have (or at least I think I have) avoided coming right out [...]

September 29, 2011 · ABL · 71 Comments
Posted in: Vagina Outrage

Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat

by Anne Laurie

From commentor Scott: You had asked for some pix of our gardening efforts. Here’s a couple of the garden along the rail of the upper deck; or, as a friend refers to it, “nice hedge.” It does function as a sight barrier affording us some privacy on the deck. A mix of flowers, ornamentals, vegetable [...]

September 29, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 21 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread

Suffer the children

by Angry DougJ

This puts me in mind of the Chappelle show classic “Kneehigh Park”: When he left Fox News last April, Beck explained it was in part because he wanted “to target the youth.” And, starting on Monday, he will take direct aim with a children’s show on his new GBTV Internet network with the tea party-friendly [...]

September 29, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 48 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now

If you’re down on your luck

by Angry DougJ

Maybe it’s because I saw “My Fair Lady” last weekend and have been listening to a lot of show tunes all week, but I got not one but two fundraising emails from Marcus Bachmann today. It looks like the Bachmann campaign may be going bankrupt. This proves that the grown-ups are still in charge of [...]

September 29, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 42 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley

Occupy Wall Street About to Go Mainstream

by John Cole

This is an interesting development.

September 29, 2011 · John Cole · 281 Comments
Posted in: The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right

Thursday Evening Open Thread

by Anne Laurie

Quick quotes from two of my favorite daily reads. Charlie Pierce at Esquire’s Politics Blog: I’m not sure what the people now occupying Wall Street ultimately will accomplish, but I’m a little tired with the argument that, because we don’t know what they may or may not accomplish, the entire exercise is doomed and useless. [...]

September 29, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 85 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Open Thread

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