Archive for September, 2011
Tuesday Evening Open Thread
Jonathan Chait, now at New York’s Daily Intel, is losing hope for a Republican horse race: The search for a viable alternative to Mitt Romney has been a long and oddly futile process. The requirements are not especially strict: one must be a Republican politician in good standing, be interested in becoming president, never have [...]
September 27, 2011
· 
Anne Laurie · 
72 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Open Thread
Dead man’s bluff
The redoubtable Stan Greenberg thinks we really will have a third party candidate of some kind in 2012 but that the candidate won’t do very well: Somebody will run as an independent in 2012. You don’t have 80 percent of voters saying we’re on the wrong track and not have an independent candidate. In 1992, [...]
September 27, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 221 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Our Failed Media Experiment
Tim Kowal’s Proud Stance Against Educated Black Californians
There are many reasons to view libertarianism as the destructive toddler of American politics. Among them is certainly the tendency of libertarians to get all ginned up about totally irrelevant theoretical problems and to remain totally indifferent to real problems. So, you know, the Affordable Care Act sucks because it represents Friedrich Hayek’s creeping serfdom, [...]
September 27, 2011
· Freddie deBoer · 83 Comments
Posted in: Education, Glibertarianism
You Know What Is Next, Don’t You
Now that the cop has been named from the pepper spray incident, and it appears he has had multiple outbursts like this, should he be fired, you know what is going to happen, don’t you? How long before he is the next Allen West? Macing hippies is almost as sure a vote getter in the [...]
September 27, 2011
· John Cole · 68 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness
Centrist Psychobabble
Driftglass reads BoBo so you don’t have to.
September 27, 2011
· John Cole · 25 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Both Sides Do It!, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
Exhuming McCarthy
James Fallows connects the current inability of Republican leaders to repudiate the haters with some earlier US history: One of the earliest political histories I remember reading was on why it took Dwight Eisenhower so long to condemn Joe McCarthy and his destructive, bullying “investigations” during the Red Scare years. I can’t now be sure [...]
September 27, 2011
· mistermix · 75 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012
Further to our Big Bad President (A (mildly) dissenting view)
Kay recently posted on Republican whining that our president thinks governing is actually something worth doing. I agree both with her disdain for the president’s (and, in my view) our polity’s opponents, and her argument that in fact it is important to try to solve problems before they become crises. That’s especially true in the [...]
September 27, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 87 Comments
Posted in: Education
Making Excuses for Authority
If you think that the real standard for a newspaper is whether they’ll dig hard when a powerful local institution is accused of wrongdoing, then compare the lead stories of the Times and Guardian coverage of the Wall Street protests. Here’s the Times lead: When members of the loose protest movement known as Occupy Wall [...]
September 27, 2011
· mistermix · 289 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
Random Barking
Was sound asleep and both girls went TOTALLY FUCKING NUTS barking. Checked the house, walked the perimeter, nothing. Tunch is on his chair unfazed. Immediately, I thought- “I should blog this.” And so I did. This is the message the girls gave me.
September 27, 2011
· John Cole · 26 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Open Thread: “Six Flags Over Dagny Taggart”
One bit of good news on a gloomy Monday evening: Charles P. “Idiot America” Pierce has taken up his new position at Esquire’s Politics blog, and he’s starting with a bang : ... It is not possible to run for president as a Republican these days without at some level having to become a parody [...]
September 26, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 90 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Excellent Links, Open Thread, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality
Do Randroids dream of robotic sheep?
No, they dream of recessions: Here’s a pretty remarkable interview with independent stock and forex trader Alessio Rastani on the BBC this morning, in which he’s either being perfectly candid about how traders are viewing the Eurozone crisis, or he’s just trolling. Anyway, he’s a sociopath. He says that the euro’s collapse is inevitable and [...]
September 26, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 62 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, Sociopaths, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, We Are All Mayans Now
Still you’re hoping that she’s well-spoken
It’s a story as old as the internet itself: someone creates a geek-friendly blog, pretends it’s written by an attractive young woman, and soon enough lots of idiots start reading the blog and crushing on the semi-fictional blog author. The fact that this particular faux hot-girl-geek-blogger was a pseduo-intellectual neoconservative (but I repeat myself) makes [...]
September 26, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 115 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, My Own Theological Premises About The Nature Of Sex
NFL Open Thread
Will the Oliver Willis Rex Grossman era continue?
September 26, 2011
· John Cole · 66 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Open Thread
I’m not sure it is fair to say I have been awol. I just had a busy morning. I had to work on my stance, go over my playbook, and watch film to get used to Ben’s snap count and the blocking assignments, because there is a very solid chance I may be playing tackle [...]
September 26, 2011
· John Cole · 89 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Today in Occupying Wall Street
According to Chris Hedges, this kind of thing is really scaring the insiders: In other news, the NY Times hasn’t noticed other than the snide article I linked to yesterday. The Guardian reports that the name and info of the cop who maced people have been released: Activists connected to the Occupy Wall Street protests [...]
September 26, 2011
· John Cole · 275 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
