Archive for November, 2011

The End of the Hermanator

by John Cole

Seeing reports on twitter that Herman Cain spoke to his staff that he was thinking about whether or not he should stay in the race. Apart from all the reasons that DougJ has pointed out in the past, I think this is a tragedy because I was dying to find out whether or not by [...]

November 29, 2011 · John Cole · 113 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Election 2012

Your dreamboat turns out be a footnote

by Angry DougJ

Feel the Newtmentum: up by 15 in Iowa, 23 in South Carolina, and only down 4 in New Hampshire. Who knows if these numbers will hold up, but the voting isn’t that far off, and if they do hold up, Newt has a real chance at being the nominee. How great would that be? After [...]

November 29, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 159 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Hoot-Smalley, I Cain't Fight This Feelin' Anymore

Fare You Well, Congressman Frank

by Anne Laurie

(via Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog) Poor Barney, so many people are saying nice things about him, he’s got to wonder if he accidentally announced his demise rather than his retirement. Per Charles P. Pierce, at Esquire’s Politics Blog: He is, as the Irish say, himself alone. He was Jewish, and gay — and open about both [...]

November 29, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 38 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat, Rare Sincerity

Welcome to the Working Week

by mistermix

Here’s a little Declan MacManus for an open thread. The first song is the first track of the first Elvis Costello album, and it clocked in at 1:22. Good songs don’t need to be long.

November 29, 2011 · mistermix · 23 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

I Want to Bite the Hand That Feeds Me

by mistermix

Elvis Costello has a new boxed set out and he doesn’t want you to buy it: Unfortunately, we at www.elviscostello.com find ourselves unable to recommend this lovely item to you as the price appears to be either a misprint or a satire. All our attempts to have this number revised have been fruitless but rather [...]

November 29, 2011 · mistermix · 40 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow.

Is Our Herman Learning?

by mistermix

Atlanta’s Fox Force 5 has an exclusive interview with a very credible woman who says she had a 13-year consensual affair with Herman Cain, and Herman manages to lie and deny without calling her a harlot. On its face, this seems like progress for Herman. The day is young, however, so we’ll see if he [...]

November 29, 2011 · mistermix · 52 Comments
Posted in: Grifters Gonna Grift

Occupy OKC

by Soonergrunt

ccupy OKC people at Kerr Park, OKC are reporting that eviction is imminent. I drove past the Bricktown police station earlier, and SWAT/SRT vehicles are staged forward there. Bricktown station is about a three minute drive from Kerr park. I don’t know what to make of this because we hadn’t had any difficulties getting permits [...]

November 28, 2011 · Soonergrunt · 78 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Enhanced Protest Techniques

Not Uptight, Not Unattractive

by John Cole

This is insanely bad news: Japan’s science ministry says 8 per cent of the country’s surface area has been contaminated by radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. It says more than 30,000 square kilometres of the country has been blanketed by radioactive caesium. The ministry says most of the contamination was caused by four [...]

November 28, 2011 · John Cole · 90 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized

Thin-Skinned Bullies

by John Cole

I know we have talked about this before, but I am still stunned by the fact that Sam Brownback’s staff tried to get a kid in trouble for tweeting about him. Don’t these people have anything more important to do than send kids to the principal’s office for disagreeing with them? What is wrong with [...]

November 28, 2011 · John Cole · 76 Comments
Posted in: Republican Stupidity, Sociopaths

The Worst Congress Ever Tries To Outdo Itself

by John Cole

Via DKOS: PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the verge of passing a bill that could very well destroy the social web, including Daily Kos. This is no hyperbole. Watch the video above. It is literally an existentialist [...]

November 28, 2011 · John Cole · 101 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Political Establishment, Science and Technology

It’s time

by Sarah Proud and Tall

I have a soft spot in my heart for Australia, and I have spent a lot of time there over the years. Usually I was visiting to check on my mining investments. I got into uranium on the ground floor after a particularly drunken weekend with the Roosevelts in early 1939. Once Eleanor had a [...]

November 28, 2011 · Sarah Proud and Tall · 20 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Rare Sincerity

For A Good Time In Cambridge: TNC on Tuesday edition

by Tom Levenson

Just to add to Ta-Nehisi Coates day at the blog, one last reminder:  any Balloon Juicers in the greater Boston area are more than welcome at Ta-Nehisi’s reading/talk at MIT tomorrow night—Tuesday, 29 November.  The festivities start at 7 in MIT’s building/room 6-120.  (Interactive map here.) Ta-Nehisi will be starting from his work-in-progress, a historical [...]

November 28, 2011 · Tom Levenson · 7 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Stuff About Black People Written By a Black Person

“a bias toward knowing what I’m talking about”

by Tom Levenson

That’s Ta-Nehisi Coates’ credo as stated in the post disembowling Andrew Sullivan that John linked to below. In that piece, Ta-Nehisi writes of his having mostly avoided the race-intelligence pit o’ fail, because he does not to his own satisfaction know enough about the technical arguments there.  As John says, that doesn’t prevent Ta-Nehisi from [...]

November 28, 2011 · Tom Levenson · 73 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Even the "Liberal" New Republic

Feel the Roementum

by Angry DougJ

There are those who say that we should care who Buddy Roemer would choose as his running mate.

November 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 13 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment

Good News for Sports Fans?

by Anne Laurie

One mark of a good writer, like Charlie Pierce, is that he can make me read about topics in which I have no personal interest: And so, on the day after Thanksgiving, when most of America was coming out of a tryptophan-and-Tony Romo-induced coma, and when hardly anyone at all was looking, they came up [...]

November 28, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 69 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Excellent Links, Sports

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