Archive for the ‘The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts’ Category
Fight the real enemy
After reading ABL’s post on the new front in the Global War Against Women and Zandar’s post on the sad-sack establishment pearl-clutching over the Evil of leaking a few documents from a right-wing propaganda outfit, I feel compelled to come out with something that’s been on my mind for a while: I view the American [...]
February 21, 2012
· 
DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
192 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
54 million, estimated
Yesterday, certain religious leaders and Republicans gathered in Congress to plan how to best to destroy those portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that regulate employee health plans offered by large businesses as part of employee compensation packages. Employee pay, in other words. Just to be clear, because there seems to be [...]
February 17, 2012
· Kay · 67 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Rules for traditionalists
I’m reading Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, not because Alinsky is our co-pilot at Balloon Juice and not because Newt Gingrinch doesn’t want anyone to read the book, but because the title has the word “rules” in it. There are rules for that? Great. Why didn’t anyone tell me? I love the book. There’s a [...]
February 12, 2012
· Kay · 52 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Education, Election 2012, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
The Evil That Men Do
Charles Murray is pimping a new book, alas. TBogg and Roy have already taken a couple of whacks at the most risible bits of his latest attempt to promote the natural order of things. It’s hard to see this one making much of a splash, outside the usual quarters. In it, Murray looks specifically at [...]
January 28, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 96 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Fables Of The Reconstruction, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
Giving Up on Hitting a Moving Target
The latest Fox News bullshit meme is that Democrats are giving up on white middle-class voters, which as Steve Benen explains, of course they aren’t. The origin of this was a piece by Tom Edsal that pointed out that white, non-college-grad males are leaving the Democratic Party and are hard to persuade. As Benen and [...]
December 3, 2011
· mistermix · 93 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
A funny thing happened on the way to the Applebee’s salad bar
Everyone’s been egging me on to tackle Bobo’s latest. I’ll summarize: the librul arts types who are protesting Wall Street excess should instead focus their anger on all the Red State monosyllabic young bucks going back for seconds and thirds at the Applebee’s salad bar. Today, college grads are much less likely to smoke than [...]
November 1, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 69 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
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
Tea Party corporate backers might want to start vetting these candidates
This is state level Tea Party insanity, but the Governor has now stepped in, so I think it merits a mention: Governor Chafee on Wednesday joined the chorus of political leaders calling for state Rep. Daniel P. Gordon to step aside, following his recent arrest and revelations about his lengthy criminal history in Massachusetts. “While [...]
September 25, 2011
· Kay · 69 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Corrections, Teabagger Stupidity, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
Senator Brown (not that one, the good one)
I met with a representative from Sherrod Brown’s campaign last Thursday evening. They’re starting early because they anticipate a tough race. I appreciate that she contacted me, and allowed me to play expert on my little neck of the woods. I hope I was helpful. I have all sorts of directives I must deliver, as [...]
August 23, 2011
· Kay · 36 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority, Republican Venality, Rumormongering, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, The Money Party
Stranger in a Strange Land
I’m not saying Mitt Romney won’t be the Republican nominee next year—though if I were a betting man, I’d lay a small wager (pizza scale, not rent money) that he’ll fall short. But I do believe that planners at DOD see Romney’s ear as the US Strategic Tin Reserve—and that can’t be good for either [...]
August 22, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 100 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Republican Stupidity, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, The Money Party
Open Thread – Delusions of Grandeur
One of my favorite bloggers, Lance Mannion, has up a lovely post about Andrew Sullivan. I haven’t had a credit card for years, because I actually live like a fiscal conservative. We’re sure you do, Andrew. But you know what else you live like? A man with a six-figure income and no children. Getting a [...]
August 10, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 87 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
Great Lakes Restoration
I’ve talked about the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative here before, but that was in the context of Ohio Governor John Kasich, who is a close friend of Rupert Murdoch, by the way. I’m troubled by that relationship. I’m concerned. I would even go so far as to say that Kasich’s passionate defense of Murdoch in [...]
August 8, 2011
· Kay · 89 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2011, Election 2012, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, The Money Party, The teabagger's apprentice
There is no future in England’s dreaming
The British are learning just how awesome Hooverism is right now too: A slowdown in Britain’s growth in the second quarter means that the economy is weaker than thought and has no chance of meeting its official growth target this year. The eagerly awaited preliminary GDP estimate for April to June showed the economy growing [...]
July 28, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 154 Comments
Posted in: The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, The Math Demands It, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, We Are All Mayans Now
Exciting News! Well, it was expected, but still
The next step: SECRETARY OF STATE HUSTED CERTIFIES SIGNATURES FOR REFERENDUM ON SENATE BILL 5 Petitioners have met Constitutional requirements to place issue on November ballot COLUMBUS – Secretary of State Jon Husted today certified that petitioners seeking a referendum on Senate Bill 5 have collected 915,456 valid signatures, meeting the necessary requirements to place [...]
July 21, 2011
· Kay · 31 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2011, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
Vermont and Washington are also far apart
I’ve been looking into Vermont’s brand new single-payer health care law.(pdf). I’ll just pick out some highlights: As provided in Sec. 4 of this act, upon receipt by the state of necessary waivers from federal law, all Vermont residents shall be eligible for Green Mountain Care, a universal health care program that will provide health [...]
July 19, 2011
· Kay · 50 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Rare Sincerity, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
