Oh no. I’ve been dreading this day. This town is just teeming with abandoned cats and it’s stray kitten season. Went down to the porch for a breath of fresh air and a sweet little gray Tort kitten came running up to me. Not at all feral. Jumped in my lap and purred its little …
Archives for July 2012
Open Thread: Voting Fraud IOKIYAR
Olympics Open Thread
Feeling a little tired and under the weather, but psyched for a night of Olympics.
Apropos of Nothing At All (Open Thread)
Separated at birth? and… That’s Ben Bernanke on top, King Hussein (of Jordan) below. Mon semblable, mon frère — in perhaps more ways than the author of that tag intended. Got to this from Yglesias’s (merited) slam on Bernanke, pointed that way by the ever-succinct Atrios. What I’ve done with those much more useful posts …
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Mr. Romney builds an app
You could be the first to know who gets to be Mittster’s number two. Stealing a page from Obama’s 08 playbook, Team Rmoney developed a smartphone app to make the big announcement and it shall be called “Mitt’s VP.” I can hardly contain my excitement. And it appears Team Rmoney is taking the data harvesting …
Turning the Screws
Love it: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years. In a wide-ranging interview with The Huffington Post from his office on Capitol Hill, Reid …
Will the Religious Right Succeed? An Examination of the Hercules Ruling on the Birth Control Benefit
My latest post for RH Reality Check has been published: In May of this year, Jan Brewer signed into law Arizona HB 2625, a bill that would allow employers to opt out of the policy under the Affordable Care Act ensuring that all insurance policies cover preventive health care services for women, including contraception, without …