Tom Scocca at Slate has an post examining Tina Brown’s gift for stoking the ever-flickering terrors behind Rich People Problems: Parents of small children! Is your preschooler able to read and write already? If you just nodded “yes,” with a little flicker of pride and satisfaction—well, Tina Brown’s Newsweek has a revelation for you. The …
Balloon Juice
But John, You Can’t Be This Stupid To Really Think He Flip-Flopped on Signing Statements
Yesterday, in the comments: Cole’s not stupid, so I suspect we’re being trolled. Yeah, that’s quite the flip-flop, the way Obama approached signing statements exactly as he said he would in the questionnaire. You’re not getting slaughtered in the comments because of their title, John, it’s because you don’t know what the hell you’re talking …
A Bleg and a Reward
Update: If folks would post links to online versions of their suggestions as available, we’d have a pretty good afternoon concert going, don’t you think? Bleg first…gotta sing for your supper, folks, more or less literally. Here’s the story: I received a note from my younger brother today, another one of my siblings with all …
Tuesday Night Open Thread: Reading
Now that the inaugural Ballon Juice Book Discussion Chapter can see the light at the end of the tunnel for NIXONLAND (four more weeks! four more weeks!), I’d like to (re)propose Gail Collins’ When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present as our next book. (Or one of our …
DC
On Monday night I am thinking Addis Ababa in Silver Spring, 7:30-ish. Send an email if you might want to go so I can call ahead for a table. Beck and Lauriol Plaza both sound like fun, especially that beer list at Beck, but I feel iffy about the price (Beck) and waiting too long …
Bleg!
For those of you who live in DC or visit it a lot, let’s say that you have to choose three or four places to eat before the world ends. I plan to visit Best Cellars for a couple cases of wine, and lunch will probably happen somewhere in Chinatown where (preferably) they don’t speak …
Calling from the VOID
Ian Murphy, the guy who pranked Scott Walker, is the Green Party candidate in NY-26, the seat vacated by shirtless hunk Chris Lee. I don’t think Democrats have a chance in the special anyway, and I like what he has to say. Here’s his introductory video.