Greetings from a hospital room in Northern Florida. I’m not the patient. I’m taking the night shift of a tag-team family vigil at the bedside of our 95-year-old matriarch, who had some sort of episode that rendered her battier than usual. We’re not sure if it’s a reaction to a new medication or some sort …
Archives for October 2012
I Don’t Give a Damn for Just the In-Betweens
The last couple of days of the Christie/Obama dynamic is one of the most interesting things I’ve seen in a while in politics. Adding to what I wrote this morning, I think that Christie’s supposed emotional outbursts are actually pretty calculated, and that’s even more reason why he should be taken seriously as a politician. …
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Open Thread: Today in Chickenshit Cowards News…
(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) __ Or should that be “cowardly chickenshits”? In any case, your modern Republicans… The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the vulture capitalists who bankrolled those ‘VOTER FRAUD IS A FELONY’ billboards have been outed: Stephen Einhorn – a Wisconsin venture capital fund manager and major GOP donor – disclosed Monday that he …
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“Enough About Me. What Do You Think Of My Hair?”*
I know this is shooting fish in a barrel, but Andrew — really? On a personal level, my wonderful introduction to New York City continues. We’ve had no power since Sunday night, and no idea when that might end… I’m blogging today from a midtown Starbucks, where every available electrical outlet is being used by …
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Mid-Afternoon Open Thread
The polling in the last couple of days has all gone the President’s direction. Of course, 538 and the Princeton Election Consortium have it decisively in the President’s favor the last several days. Princeton reported this morning (before the site went offline) that the re-election likelihood was 93% for the random distribution, and 98% for …
Rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown
I hope all our New York readers are still in one piece. Not because I care about them, but because I’m still planning a Balloon Juice get together on the afternoon of November 11. What’s a good place to meet? We did a place called Walker’s in Tribeca and another called McGee’s on the upper …
The scientists say it will all wash away, but we don’t believe anymore
You know the drill. Teahadists: Al Gore is fat. Bobo/Lane/other VSPs: the limits of prediction, numbers can’t tell us everything. Reality (via): “Look, the city is extremely vulnerable to damaging storm surges just for its geography, and climate change is increasing that risk,” said Ben Strauss, director of the sea level rise program at the …
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