Archive for October, 2011
Fracking Tensions
It seems fracking is causing all sorts of tension between residents of small communities: The dispute has pitted neighbor against neighbor, and has often set people who live in suburbs or villages against the farmers and landowners who live outside them. The discord is compounded by hard times on both sides and by communication online [...]
October 30, 2011
· 
John Cole · 
55 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Occupy East and West
Out West, Police arrested protesters in Denver and Portland last night. I didn’t see any mention of serious injuries in either of those local reports. In the East, a big winter storm hit New York City and OWS is calling for donations of winter clothing. What’s going on in the occupation in your part of [...]
October 30, 2011
· mistermix · 48 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Jump! You Fuckers!
The Cain Mutiny
Herman Cain and Mitt Romney are essentially tied in today’s Des Moines Register Iowa poll, which is supposedly one of the more well-lubricated weathervanes measuring the fickle caucus-goer/pig farmer demographic. This is interesting because savvy Republican observers have been predicting that Cain’s supposed flip-flop on abortion would sour that group: Mr. Laudner, the abortion opponent, [...]
October 30, 2011
· mistermix · 63 Comments
Posted in: Teabagger Stupidity
All dressed up for the spooky scene
Sometimes the stuff in National Review is so strange that I don’t know what to make of it. Consider that this article (via), about which British colonialist you should dress as to scare your liberal neighbors, goes on for three pages and lists something like eight (I lost count) possibilities: So, what better costumes to [...]
October 30, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 76 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Hoot-Smalley
Former Alltel CEO Makes Odd Connection Between Occupy Wall Street and Rwandan Genocide
Hyperbole much? Former Alltell CEO Scott Ford gave a speech to the local Chamber of Commerce in Fort Smith, Arkansas during which he drew a comparison between the 99 percent Movement and the Rwandan genocide: Ford was the featured speaker at the event held in downtown Fort Smith at the Holiday Inn City Center. He shared [...]
October 29, 2011
· ABL · 93 Comments
Posted in: #OWS
Home At Last
A lovely five hour drive through a snowstorm. Have I ever mentioned how much I love my Subaru?
October 29, 2011
· John Cole · 107 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
No Dark Sarcasm In The Classroom
No, the kids are not alright under GOP rule in Michigan. City fire marshal investigators plan to inspect every Detroit Public Schools classroom after receiving complaints this week about overcrowded classes with more than 50 students. Detroit Fire Department representatives met Thursday with district officials to determine the maximum number of students for every classroom [...]
October 29, 2011
· Zandar · 67 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Decline and Fall, Fables Of The Reconstruction, hoocoodanode, Republican Venality
Layer cake
Kthug touches on one of my favorite topics: What I found myself thinking about, however, is the way the inequality debate illustrates some typical features of many debates these days: the way the right has a sort of multi-layer defense in depth, which involves not only denying facts but then, in a pinch, denying the [...]
October 29, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 117 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Our Failed Media Experiment
Afternoon Open Thread Type Thing
College football appears to be happening around the country, also some sort of localized winter death storm in the Northeast where brimstone and/or razor sharp obsidian is falling from the skies. TNC on Up with Chris Hayes this morning was a nice change of pace, but then Mort Zuckerman showed up to blame everything economic, [...]
October 29, 2011
· Zandar · 99 Comments
Posted in: OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Open Thread, We Are All Mayans Now
“Why Our Generation is Screwed”
I’m at a conference where a twenty-something student is giving an OWS presentation with this title, and he included this graph (click to embiggen). I can’t really argue with him. Last night, Rochester Police arrested 32 protesters at Occupy Rochester. I have to believe the violence in Oakland influenced the police approach, which included multiple [...]
October 29, 2011
· mistermix · 89 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Jump! You Fuckers!
Open Thread: “In Republican campaigns, the difference between an “issue” and a “distraction” is whether the Koch Brothers have busted out the checkbook yet.”
Wherein I once again give thanks to whatever aspect of Murphy, the Trickster God, inspired the NYTimes- owned suits busily destroying the last worthwhile parts of the Boston Globe to give Charles P. Pierce his freedom. The un-mealy-mouthed precincts of Esquire and the boundaryless generosity of regular blogging have given him the chance to produce [...]
October 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 41 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Excellent Links, Open Thread, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality
Five Bucks, Chucked
After being rightfully pegged as the poster child of Wall Street greed in a lousy economy, Bank of America is reconsidering that whole $5 a month debit card fee for its customers. Bank of America is considering softening its controversial policy of charging some customers for making purchases with their debit cards, according to a [...]
October 29, 2011
· Zandar · 41 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Jump! You Fuckers!, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You
Open Thread: “Scott Brown, Tea Party Patriarch”
From Noah Bierman at the Boston Globe’s Political Intelligence blog: A day after a Republican video mocked Democratic US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren as the “Matriarch of Mayhem” for claiming significant credit for the Occupy Wall Street movement, a Democratic leaning political action committee has released “Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch.” The liberal video uses [...]
October 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 44 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat, Warren for Senate 2012
Thug Life
It really is us versus them: A three-year investigation into the police’s habit of fixing traffic and parking tickets in the Bronx ended in the unsealing of indictments on Friday and a stunning display of vitriol by hundreds of off-duty officers, who converged on the courthouse to applaud their accused colleagues and denounce their prosecution. [...]
October 29, 2011
· John Cole · 79 Comments
Posted in: Shitty Cops
What costume shall the poor girl wear?
Humorless libruls just don’t get foreclosure mill humor: Let me describe a few of the photos. In one, two Baum employees are dressed like homeless people. One is holding a bottle of liquor. The other has a sign around her neck that reads: “3rd party squatter. I lost my home and I was never served.” [...]
October 29, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 36 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, Jump! You Fuckers!, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
