Archive for October, 2011
Confessions of an Obot
I’m an Obot. I think he’s a better president than Hillary or (the candidate I initially supported) Edwards would have been, and much better than whoever Cornell West and Ralph Nader would support. But this post gets to my concerns about the upper echelons of the Democratic party, more broadly: This belief that New Deal [...]
October 28, 2011
· 
Angry DougJ · 
121 Comments
Posted in: Jump! You Fuckers!, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Political Establishment
Friday Night Open Thread
The “young lady” protestor’s sign just about sums it up. What’s on the agenda for this weekend?
October 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 32 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Open Thread
Ralph Nader and Cornel West’s Plans to Primary Obama Hit A Wall
Nader haz a sad. I haz a glad. Fresh off the heels of The New York Times’ report that Black people still really love them some President Obama, comes the news that Nader’s progressive pony project isn’t going to meet the deadline for qualifying to enter the New Hampshire primary. ::cue tiny violins:: The man [...]
October 28, 2011
· ABL · 233 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Manic Progressive
Chuck Open Thread
Enjoy. I’ll have to stream it later this weekend.
October 28, 2011
· John Cole · 22 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
World Series Game 7 Open Thread
October 28, 2011
· John Cole · 96 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Song of the week
There is no way “Timothy” will ever be topped as the greatest song of the week evah, but JPK will try (also too, I am more of a Candy Apple Grey person).... Hüsker Dü, “Pink Turns to Blue” (1984) I suspect I’m in the minority on this now, but I still count the best Hüsker [...]
October 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 70 Comments
Posted in: Music, Readership Capture
Huntsman Calls Romney a “Perfectly Lubricated Weather Vane”
America throws up in its mouth a little Jon Huntsman (he’s one of the dudes running for the Republican nomination, ‘member?) went on the attack against Romney on CNN today: The former Utah governor called Mitt Romney a “perfectly lubricated weather vane” and Herman Cain “the flavor of the week,” in an interview with Wolf [...]
October 28, 2011
· ABL · 74 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012
Cute overload
Max the doberman takes on a four month old Aussie pup. Your treat for surviving another work week.
October 28, 2011
· Tim F. · 26 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging
Open Thread
Just spent five hours on the road to my undisclosed location in Dick Cheney’s secret lair, and if traffic near you is anything like it was for me, stay off the road. Unparalleled levels of road douchebaggery today. Felt like deathrace 2011. A specific shout-out to the Black SUV with tinted windows who decided me [...]
October 28, 2011
· John Cole · 151 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread
Occupy Defiance
I went out to a county political event last night and saw my friend Dolores. She told me that she was involved in an Occupy group in a city east of here, so I went out there to see how it was going. Defiance is the name of the city. You can read about that [...]
October 28, 2011
· Kay · 43 Comments
Posted in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, Free Markets Solve Everything, Kochsuckers, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
Public radio fires another employee for associating with OWS
Another one bites the dust (h/t several readers who sent this to me): I thought all of this (a sign she held up at an OWS rally) could be fodder for an interesting segment on The Takeaway—a morning news program co-produced by WNYC Radio and Public Radio International—for which I had been working as a [...]
October 28, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 83 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
Christian Nutbag Bryan Fischer Claims Jesus Would Whip Occupy Wall Street Protestors
Your Jesus sucks. Bryan Fischer, spokesperson (excuse me “Director of Issues Analysis) for the right-wing American Family Association really let it all hang out with his latest screed. He claimed that Jesus would not be down with this Occupy Wall Street business, and that if he were to come back today, he’d go right down [...]
October 28, 2011
· ABL · 83 Comments
Tags: #YourJesusSucks · Posted in: #OWS, Fuck The Poor, Fucked-up-edness
Joel Osteen Will Love the Gay Out of You
I bet you will, buddy-boy You gotta love when megachurch leaders and evangelical nutbags say stupid things. Yesterday, I wrote about a “family values” candidate in Virginia who blames liberals and weed for being “in homosexuality” and preying on a minor. Today, I bring you this little doozy— In an interview with the Washington Post’s [...]
October 28, 2011
· ABL · 37 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness, Gay Rights are Human Rights
Sometimes you have to admit defeat
I tried to write a proper analysis of Peggy Noonan’s latest emission. I labored through her evocation of a red and white and purple-prosed America that I suspect only ever existed in Peggy’s wildest gin-dreams: ...The things that divide us are not new, yet there’s a sense now that the glue that held us together [...]
October 28, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 131 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, IOKIYAR, Jump! You Fuckers!, Open Thread
Stuck in Place
I find studies like this to be fascinating: The continuing economic downturn has drastically altered the internal migration habits of Americans, turning the flood of migrants into the Sun Belt and out of states like New York, Massachusetts and California into a relative trickle, an analysis of recent federal data confirms. Essentially, millions of Americans [...]
October 28, 2011
· John Cole · 128 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
