Archive for the ‘All we want is life beyond the thunderdome’ Category
At Least Have The Grace To Oil Up…Again
So last time we talked supply and demand and oil/gasoline prices in the US, there was quite a bit of disagreement about whether or not US demand for gasoline makes any difference in gas prices at the pump at all. There was agreement that gasoline price increases are pretty elastic (they respond to oil supply [...]
February 20, 2012
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Zandar · 
103 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, An Unexamined Scandal, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, The Money Party
Next You’ll Tell Me The Sun Is Hot And Made Of Fusion
The National Journal’s latest poll on the federal safety net finds the shocking news that the more money you make, the less you believe America needs as much federal spending on the poor, but not all of the responses were of the Allow Them To Consume Sweet Baked Comestibles variety, either. The survey found a [...]
February 15, 2012
· Zandar · 67 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, Our Awesome Meritocracy, We Are All Mayans Now
House Of Pain
Foreclosuregate rattles on, and it looks like the banks are going to lose their pound of flesh, in this case, $25-$26 billion over three years, in order to get off the hook for roughly 100 times that in real damage to the economy. The final details of the pact were still being negotiated Wednesday night, [...]
February 9, 2012
· Zandar · 55 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Don't Mourn, Organize, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Jump! You Fuckers!, Nobody could have predicted, Our Awesome Meritocracy, the Great American Bubble Machine, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
You may know her as a failed executive, but you may not be aware that she also purges minority voters
I wrote yesterday that there is a lot of voter suppression news out there. The Voting Rights Act is under attack: Today the state of South Carolina sued the Justice Department for blocking its new law requiring citizens to show government-issued photo identification to vote. This is just the latest broadside in what promises to [...]
February 8, 2012
· Kay · 66 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome
Public health includes women
Where we are: Facing vocal opposition from religious leaders and an escalating political fight, the White House sought on Tuesday to ease mounting objections to a new administration rule that would require health insurance plans — including those offered by Catholic universities and charities — to offer birth control to women free of charge. The [...]
February 8, 2012
· Kay · 140 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome
Tuesday Evening Open Thread
(Jeff Danziger’s website) Now that the high holy days are over, I guess it’s safe for a non-participant to ask: Anybody read Joe Nocera’s NYTimes piece on “The Cost of Football Glory“? ... After talking to Booth, I tracked down one other person from Super Bowl X: Jean Fugett, now a lawyer in Baltimore. “Would [...]
February 7, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 71 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Open Thread, Sports
Chart Of Darkness: Belaboring The Point
Following up on Saturday’s post on the latest wingnut meme that Kenyan Soshulist Maths are hiding the truth that the reeeeeeeal unemployment rate among scared, crazy self-piddling conservatives is 157 gazillion percent, we see FOX and Friends is happily joining in the silliness. “Are they playing around with the numbers?” fill-in host Eric Bolling asked. [...]
February 7, 2012
· Zandar · 51 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now, Wingnut Event Horizon
Greek Fire: Burninating The Countryside
As the EU drops the hammer on Greece this weekend saying that the country has to go along with brutal austerity measures including minimum wage and pension cuts or else no bailout and and a default, Irish economist David McWilliams offers this clever 10-minute explanation of the European debt crisis. Please note that the EU’s [...]
February 5, 2012
· Zandar · 34 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, The Money Party, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Occupy the Toybox
Lego figurines, Kinder surprises and other toys played the role of ‘demonstrators’. Photograph: Sergey Teplyakov/vkontakte I would love this even I didn’t have a half-dozen tchotchkes on my desk right now. From the Guardian: Police in the Siberian city of Barnaul have asked prosecutors to investigate the legality of a recent protest that saw dozens [...]
January 30, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 59 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Foreign Affairs
Will they be able to say one thing in Indiana, and another in Michigan and Ohio?
My hope is, actions have consequences: Indiana’s House of Representatives approved a bill that would exempt nonunion employees from paying dues when working alongside union workers, a critical step toward final passage. “What you’re doing to the great state of Indiana, it’s a shame, it’s a shame, it’s a shame,” Democratic Representative John Bartlett said [...]
January 26, 2012
· Kay · 73 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome
Gabrielle Giffords Stepping Down
Via NYMag’s Daily Intel. “I’m getting better… I will return.” Any Arizonans want to tell us about potential candidates who could keep her seat in the (D) column now?
January 22, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 42 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat
If You Have To Legislatively Force Your Theory To Be Taught As Science, You’ve Lost
PZ Myers flags this legislation under consideration in the Missouri House. It seems HB1227 would not only redefine “intelligent design creationism” as actual science, it would then require that textbooks and classes in Missouri schools be forced to teach it as acceptable science along with “scientific theory” evolution. It’s bad enough that the bill attempts [...]
January 14, 2012
· Zandar · 113 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Clap Louder!, Education, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Republican Stupidity, We Are All Mayans Now
Living under the fear ’till nothing else remains
Hello, kiddies. I’ve finally recovered from a New Year’s Eve which involved several thousand happy Portuguese dancing in the streets of Porto, a visit to a gay bar where I was plied with champagne while watching buxom naked ladies swinging on swings to the music of Boney M., and the inhalation of veritable drifts of [...]
January 3, 2012
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 61 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Assholes, Sociopaths
Open Thread: TPM’s 2011 in 100 Seconds
Talking Points Memo boils it down for us. Of course, half these clips will be incomprehensible (except to political junkies with grudges) within five years, and there’s bound to be omissions that future archivists will wonder at. Who’s got nomination(s) for the “How could they not include…?” files?
January 1, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 43 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Excellent Links, Open Thread
Thursday Wednesday Evening Open Thread
Via NYMag, something to bring down the collective blood pressure. I’ve spent the last four hours vainly trying to convince our idiot little dogs that “$1800 of furnace repairs, and no end in sight” will neither be mitigated nor expedited by their racing between the (locked) front door & the (gated) basement stairway, alarm-barking their [...]
December 21, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 144 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Dog Blogging, Open Thread
