Archive for the ‘Starbursts’ Category
How Doctors Die
Ken Murray, a Family Practice physician at USC, has an interesting post about death: It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the [...]
December 30, 2011
· 
mistermix ... World Peace · 
103 Comments
Posted in: Starbursts
The F-Team
How bad is the Republican field? So bad that Rich Lowry is calling this train wreck the “A team” that “isn’t on the field”: The Chris Matthews “Oh, God” at the beginning still cracks me up. At any rate, at some point conservative “intellectuals” like Lowry are going to realize that the fail parade he [...]
December 26, 2011
· John Cole · 58 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Election 2012, Starbursts, Teabagger Stupidity
Program Notes From The Blogger Formerly Known as Pretentious Art Douche
Dear all, I’ve been even more absent than usual, for which I apologize to any who’ve noticed (and cared about the absence) and wish coal-in-stockings for all those who were cheering the blessed silence. Nothing disastrous has intervened—just a job that continues to kick my ass more than I thought likely, and seems, despite expectations, [...]
December 19, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 21 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, KULCHA!, Starbursts
The Katie Couric “Grilling”
Wingnuts are all upset about the CBS debate last night, and my initial reaction was “Why’d you schedule a Saturday night debate during football season?” But then I read the Politio write-up: But CBS already navigates conservative distrust over Dan Rather’s botched report raising questions about George W. Bush’s National Guard service in 2004 and [...]
November 13, 2011
· John Cole · 87 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Starbursts, Wingnut Event Horizon
Easy Marks
You ever hear a news report about a bunch of people who were swindled and lost their life savings in an obvious scam? I’m talking about the people who lose their life savings to a Nigerian prince who emailed them and said if you just give me our bank account info I will put millions [...]
October 6, 2011
· John Cole · 77 Comments
Posted in: Grifters Gonna Grift, hoocoodanode, Starbursts
Dog Bites Man (This is Very Good News For John McCain)
The sound of fifteen minutes ending. Image: François Boucher, Madame de Pompadour, 1756
October 5, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 52 Comments
Posted in: Starbursts, Uncategorized
Things that make Grammy laugh and laugh
The following are the results of Hot Air’s Monthly Presidential Candidate Poll Results. If you want to sully your computer with the detailed “polling results”, then you can go over here, but frankly one of us giving them hits is probably more than enough. I spent thirty seconds looking at their front page and feel [...]
October 2, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 45 Comments
Posted in: Grifters Gonna Grift, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, My Own Theological Premises About The Nature Of Sex, Post-racial America, Seriously, Starbursts
“I knew I was going to take the wrong train….”
...”so I left early.” Thus sayeth that noted neutrino expert Yogi Berra, Bb.D. Because humankind cannot live by politics alone, here’s a bit of an off-angle reaction to the biggest news in physics since Big Al (as I thought of him through a decade of film-and-book making/writing on the good Dr. Einstein) looked out of [...]
September 27, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 72 Comments
Posted in: Science and Technology, Starbursts
A grifter is gonna grift
Earlier this week the Des Moines Register reported that Sarah PAC has sent out a fund raising letter to supporters asking them to “..send your best, one-time gift to … show her that we support her if she decides to run.” They even included a link to the letter. I think the Quitta from Wasilla [...]
September 24, 2011
· Dennis G. · 55 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Good News For Conservatives, Starbursts, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Open Thread: Cross-Platform Media Promotion
(Doonesbury via GoComics.com) I’d actually been wondering about a collusion between these two before the Washington Post confirmed it: ... the fictional character’s [Roland Hedley’s] arrival in McGinniss’s real life marked the beginning of a beautiful relationship. This month, Doonesbury’s creator, Garry Trudeau, has partnered with McGinniss for a cartoon collaboration. (“A wild rumpus, as [...]
September 12, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 61 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Starbursts
The Thrill is Gone
If this picture (from Reddit, click to embiggen) doesn’t give you your morning dose of schadenfreude, then perhaps Conor Friedersdorf’s collection of various right wing heroes (Erik son of Erik, Coulter) throwing Palin under the bus might do it for you.
September 12, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 109 Comments
Posted in: Starbursts
We’re the Dumbest Country in the World
This is an actual news piece at CNN: We seriously have the dumbest politics in the world, the stupidity of which is surpassed only by the mediocrity of our journalism.
September 3, 2011
· John Cole · 129 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Our Failed Media Experiment, Starbursts
Starburst Memories
This is what August needed: After a more than two-month hiatus, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is planning to crash the presidential party once again with a heartland-themed re-launch of her “One Nation” bus tour this week in Iowa, according to a Palin fundraising email obtained by CNN. Palin is bringing her Constitution-draped bus to [...]
August 10, 2011
· John Cole · 135 Comments
Posted in: Green Balloons, Starbursts
The Witch or the Sorcerer
Not surprisingly, people went with the sorcerer.
July 15, 2011
· John Cole · 109 Comments
Posted in: hoocoodanode, Starbursts
All Starbursts, All the Time
Why is this even a story at the Note: There’s the stereotype of the Sarah Palin supporter, and then there’s Sonnie Johnson. The 30-year-old African-American mother and wife is featured in “The Undefeated” as one of the many people Palin captivated when John McCain thrust her onto the national stage as his vice presidential running [...]
June 29, 2011
· John Cole · 76 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, Starbursts
