Archive for the ‘Other’ Category
There Was Another Thing I Wanted To Talk About
You know, posting the picture of my fat mug a couple weeks ago was kind of quite liberating. It’s not like I have really been hiding anything- I’ve been pretty open I’m a fat, blonde haired, blue eyed, pasty skinned white guy. But for some reason I never posted a picture, because I guess I [...]
February 11, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
237 Comments
Posted in: Other
Why conservatives can’t do pop culture very well
Yes, somebody actually painted this. And no, I don’t think it’s satire. You have to sort of love the rooster, though. He’s as free as a bird now. The question is: where’s Waldo? You see this is why conservatives are failing when it comes to waging the culture war in the arts, and why they at once [...]
February 9, 2012
· E.D. Kain · 298 Comments
Posted in: Other
Update on Dad
I added this to the other post, but thought I should let you all know what is going on in a new thread. Thanks for the kind words. My mother just called, and she doesn’t know any specifics other than he had a mild heart attack. I tried to get her to tell me if [...]
February 3, 2012
· John Cole · 276 Comments
Posted in: Other
Break on through to the other side
Norm Ornstetin writes that outside groups are outspending candidates 2-1 in the Republican primary so far. I don’t think that the ratio will be anything like that in the general election, because the campaigns themselves will spend much more money. Also too, there are fewer persuadable voters in a general, so the ads probably make [...]
January 21, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 89 Comments
Posted in: Other
Things I read in the Times
1. I get the feeling that the MPAA really wanted SOPA/PIPA to slip through Congress in the dead of night. The more people wake up to the bills’ loopy enforcement provisions the angrier we get, and angry constituents have started to make even the bills’ sponsors very nervous. Keep the pressure on. 2. Sixty percent [...]
January 18, 2012
· Tim F. · 63 Comments
Posted in: Other
Manning Update
The Trial Counsel has rested in PFC Bradley Manning’s Article 32 hearing at Fort Meyer, VA. Today the Defense may begin to rebut the Trial Counsel’s case. This is not a trial, but more like a Grand Jury hearing (with a jury of one), except that the Defense has the right to call witnesses, present [...]
December 21, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 185 Comments
Posted in: Bradley Manning, Fucksaw, Military, Other
Tears of rage
Too much of the coverage of death of Kim Jong Il focused on what it meant geopolitically, or specifically for the United States. Good news for Mitt Romney! Etc. Etc. Reader E sends along a few articles that focus on the plight of the North Korean people, one about the outbursts of crying that North [...]
December 20, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 97 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Other
On a sour note
I was a little sickened by John’s post on Hitchens. Frankly, it made me reconsider blogging here at all. Not just because I’ve never thought much of Hitchens, not just because the post because garnered our first ever link from Politico, but because Hitchens (to his immense credit) is the last person on earth who [...]
December 18, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 225 Comments
Posted in: Other
Not Surprising
I attended a rather liberal college in the 90’s, years which might be the high water mark for feminist thought in America. It was a cozy supportive environment that gave people the chance to – maybe, in a very safe environment – talk about the things that we do not talk about. I showed up [...]
December 14, 2011
· Tim F. · 128 Comments
Posted in: Other
Radio, radio
I’ll be on Virtually Speaking this Thursday at 9 am EDT pm EST. Right now, Dahlia Lathwick is on discussing the upcoming SCOTUS decision on the health care bill.
December 11, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 23 Comments
Posted in: Other, Readership Capture
Be excellent to each other
Lord only knows how I stayed married this long without such expert advise. Also: if you’re a complete wanker then wank about religion, because it’s not like anyone is going to prove you wrong.
December 9, 2011
· Tim F. · 54 Comments
Posted in: Other
Look back in anger
I know I give fellow academics a lot of shit for being politically naive, but the mathematicians I talked to in London last June were all saying exactly what Brad DeLong and Krugman are saying now (via), that Cameron is fucked and that Clegg has probably permanently completely destroyed the Lib Dems (whom most of [...]
December 3, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 102 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Other, Politics
Tie me to the mast, boys
Today’s cyber-whatever deal at Amazon is the Panasonic LX5 for $269. If you do succumb, please use the Amazon link in the right sidebar to make sure the blog gets a cut.
December 2, 2011
· Tim F. · 28 Comments
Posted in: Other
This is Just Horrible
James Joyner’s wife died unexpectedly in her sleep last night, leaving behind an obviously distraught James and two young daughters. She was only 41. It’s just devastating news for anyone, and I feel horrible for him. James, you are in our thoughts.
November 27, 2011
· John Cole · 82 Comments
Posted in: Other
Front Pager behaving badly
Well, I fucked up. No two ways about it. I could try to explain what I was doing, what I was thinking, what I believed to be the case, but none of that sounds like anything other than petty blame shifting when I write it out in the face of what I actually did. I [...]
November 26, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 99 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Fucked-up-edness, Open Thread, Other
