My day to day life has been consuming my time a good bit, but did want to stick my head in for a few moments and address some recent events in the world’s most popular sport. I’ve been putting this post together in my head for weeks and one of the points I was about …
Archives for October 2011
Busted, disgusted
An interesting piece by Nate Silver on conservative blogosphere reaction to the Cain sexual harassment story (which is starting to interest me in terms of phenomena like this, if not in and of itself): The conservative blogs that I counted were those that had been linked to on Memorandum, an aggregation website, either Monday night …
RSS reader bleg
The new version of Google Reader is a disaster, weird colors, doesn’t size properly, red buttons everywhere for stuff you don’t want to do. Are there any decent RSS readers for Mac? I tried bloglines but it makes it a pain to migrate my Google subscriptions over. Is there anything else that’s good? Am I …
Virginia GOP Halloween-themed email featuring zombie Obama with a bullet in his head? [updated]
Not cool, dudes. Surprise! Some Republicans somewhere did something really stupid: Virginia Republicans were in apology mode Monday over a Halloween-themed email that depicted a zombie-like President Obama with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head.
Speaking of incoherent speaking
ABL wrote something below that reminded me of a seemingly forgotten nugget from those sepia-toned years way back in Bush junior’s first term. Did anyone else watch shrub’s live address after the New York blackout in 2003? Completely. Shitfaced. I mean beet-red, unable to frame a sentence in common English, needs help to and from …
Yes, we Cain
I have no interest in this Cain sexual harassment story. Do any of you have any interest in it? There’s only one part that amuses me, and that’s the conservative claim that the librul media did this. I agree with those who say that Rove dropped a dime here. Not that there’s anything wrong with …
Monday Night Open Thread
Had about 45 kids tonight and ran out of candy with 45 minutes left, so I had to turn the front porch light off and hide. Really weird- last year was a nicer night, and I had half as many kids. This year it was drizzling, and there were kids everywhere.