Last night’s GOP debate was a lot of fearmongering talk about ISIS. Let’s also not forget Ted Cruz’s love of the word “carpet bombing,” Ben Carson’s need for boots on the ground, and Trump making bold statements about not only representing the Republican party as opposed to running independently and his call to ban Muslims from entering the US.
Team Blackness had a lot of words–some fueled by whiskey–about the debate, the Planned Parenthood attacks, Daniel Holtzclaw’s conviction and other news that has happened in the last month while we’ve all been moving.
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scav
there’s been a distinct dearth of a certain style of ranting in my life. Ah, good.
Also, go figure. Mr. Affluenza seems to have gone AWOL. Mumsie too.
Villago Delenda Est
“Dr.” “Ben” is all for boots on the ground, as long as they’re not his.
gogol's wife
And as was pointed out at length in the NYTimes, Cruz doesn’t have the slightest idea what the term “carpet bombing” actually means.
rikyrah
Students chant ’16 shots’ at Emanuel’s Urban Prep event
WRITTEN BY FRAN SPIELMAN POSTED: 12/16/2015, 10:29AM
A normally friendly forum for Mayor Rahm Emanuel turned hostile Wednesday when student protesters chanting, “16 shots,” interrupted a ceremony called to jump-start a “citywide strategy” aimed at providing expanded opportunities for “every child and young man of color” in Chicago.
Emanuel announced creation of a “My Brother’s Keeper Cabinet” at Urban Prep Academies, 6201 S. Stewart. It’s a charter school that boasts of sending 100 percent of its African-American male graduates to college.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1185202/protesters-chanting-sixteen-shots-disrupt-emanuels-even-urban-prep
rikyrah
‘STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS’ REVIEW: THE THRILLS ARE STRONG WITH THIS ONE RICHARD ROEPER on December 16, 2015
It’s a return to greatness.
Nearly 40 years after “Star Wars” exploded the pop culture universe and practically became a religion for generations of fans, and a full decade after many of those same fans felt betrayed and defeated by “Revenge of the Sith,” the seventh “Star Wars” movie could well bear the same subtitle as the original:
“A New Hope.”
What a beautiful, thrilling, joyous, surprising and heart-thumping adventure this is. “The Force Awakens” pops with memorable battle sequences, gives us chills with encore appearances by stars from the original trilogy and introduces more than a half-dozen terrific Next Generation characters.
If the U.S. presidential election were held this weekend, director-producer-co-writer J.J. Abrams might carry the day based on geek support alone.
“The Force Awakens” is set about 30 years after the events of “Return of the Jedi.” Of course Abrams begins with the familiar blue text telling us this all takes place “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” and then we get the iconic yellow crawl text giving us some basic backstory and letting us know where we are now.
And then boom! We’re off and running. (More often, flying and soaring and zigging and zagging.)
http://entertainment.suntimes.com/movies/star-wars-force-awakens-review-thrills-strong-one/
Villago Delenda Est
OK, the Balloon Juice seems to be seriously broken right now. I keep getting “yoursite.com” when I click on my Balloon Juice bookmark.
And, just like that, it seems to be fixed.
Alain the site fixer
It’s fixed – Brief hiccup from typo and then worse mis-paste due to panic from the original typo.
Anyway, SSL should be enabled and forced for all.
Villago Delenda Est
@Alain the site fixer: WOOT! You go, Alain!
SiubhanDuinne
Mistrial in the Freddie Gray cop case.
Villago Delenda Est
@SiubhanDuinne: Hmmm….reason for mistrial? When I was on jury duty, I sat in a case of food stamp fraud. Somehow, some very damaging information got slipped into the pile of evidence that had been admitted by the court and it was skewing the jury something fierce against the defendant. So the judge had no choice but to declare a mistrial.
sharl
Looks like another site issue here: in the previous version of this site, Elon’s pieces posted in triplicate.
I’m not an IT person, but I’m guessing this might be a tricky issue to fix…good luck!
ThresherK (GPad)
I too missed TWiB, and if this is your way of making me send money, it has worked.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Villago Delenda Est: ISIS boots are gonna kill us in our beds, doncha know.
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.