Archive for September, 2011
Open Thread: It’s Not What You Know…
(Jeff Danziger’s website) ... it’s who you know. Charlie Pierce, now at Esquire’s Daily Politics blog, points out that no Lawn Order In-Forcement felt inspired to ‘kettle’, much less pepper-spray, a certain “interstate conspiracy to riot and to disrupt a legitimate recount in a presidential election“. Perhaps it’s just that no Floridian Tony Bologna was [...]
September 28, 2011
· 
Anne Laurie · 
54 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Open Thread, Outrage
The best and the brightest
I’m not normally one to hate competent public servants for no reason, but I’ve always hated Peter Orszag. He always seemed liked that sort of faux nice guy geek who would ultimately turn out to be the kind of sociopathic douche who would take millions in dollars of pay-off money from an investment bank, pen [...]
September 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 43 Comments
Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy
No on Issue Two
I made canvassing calls for We Are Ohio the other night. The ballot issue in question is a “citizen veto” of SB5, which is Ohio’s new union-busting law. Technically, the law hasn’t gone in yet, which is why it’s “NO” on Issue Two. I don’t love making canvassing calls, but I will do it, and [...]
September 28, 2011
· Kay · 22 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Daydream Believers, Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2011, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Glibertarianism
Maybe This One Won’t Go Away
Interesting: Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said on Wednesday that the Internal Affairs Bureau will look into the decision of a high-ranking officer to use pepper spray on a number of female protesters at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration on Saturday. *** The video, which has been posted on YouTube and the Web sites of [...]
September 28, 2011
· John Cole · 234 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Shitty Cops
This Made Me Laugh
Saw this on that facebook thing: Pretty much.
September 28, 2011
· John Cole · 63 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights
Amazon’s Kindle Fire
Just curious what all you tech folks think of this new Silk browser.
September 28, 2011
· John Cole · 148 Comments
Posted in: Science and Technology
Open Thread
Sometimes it’s the classics that give us an insight into our shared humanity. Here’s an open thread.
September 28, 2011
· mistermix · 82 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Flirting with Disaster
Chris Christie has definitely gone from being a straight governor to presidential-candidate-curious. He’s probably not going to run, but when he spoke at the Reagan Presidential Library last night, he was a little more coy than usual. Let me first express my surprise that people are actually allowed to speak inside the St. Ronaldus Magnus [...]
September 28, 2011
· mistermix · 170 Comments
Posted in: Republican Stupidity
I’m Looking at the Man in the Middle
Researchers at Argonne National Labs have developed a $10-30 set of parts that can be inserted into a Diebold voting machine and used to alter votes. The machine can be opened by using a standard hotel minibar key, or a similar, easily copied key, and the parts can be inserted in a matter of seconds. [...]
September 28, 2011
· mistermix · 106 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Political Establishment
Early Morning Open Thread: Rosh Hashanah
Via commentor MRK, because it made him smile, as it did me. Shana Tova Umetukah, a good and sweet year, to the believers among us, and may we all be inspired to reflect upon our transgressions and strive for a better tomorrow!
September 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 27 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Open Thread
Boob Tube Fall Line-UP
Obviously, Chuck and Psych, but what else are we looking forward to checking out? I’m kind of intrigued by Jesus in Person of Interest, and might give Terra Nova a whirl. I watched about ten minutes of Whitney and was ready to kill myself, so that is out.
September 27, 2011
· John Cole · 194 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Television
Taste includes both oysters and snails
Spartacus is on TCM!
September 27, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 36 Comments
Posted in: Movies
Just a Few Bad Apples
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September 27, 2011
· John Cole · 156 Comments
Posted in: Shitty Cops
A Dubious Distinction
Goes to Reading, Pa., which most of us around here only know of as an exit on the way to Philly: The exhausted mothers who come to the Second Street Learning Center here — a day care provider for mostly low-income families — speak of low wages, hard jobs and an economy gone bad. Ashley [...]
September 27, 2011
· John Cole · 53 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
“I knew I was going to take the wrong train….”
...”so I left early.” Thus sayeth that noted neutrino expert Yogi Berra, Bb.D. Because humankind cannot live by politics alone, here’s a bit of an off-angle reaction to the biggest news in physics since Big Al (as I thought of him through a decade of film-and-book making/writing on the good Dr. Einstein) looked out of [...]
September 27, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 72 Comments
Posted in: Science and Technology, Starbursts
