(h/t SiubhanDunne) . What’s on the agenda, as everyone gears up for what’s looking to be a busy week? .
Open Threads
Open Thread: Aquaerobics for Cats
(via the Atlantic) Anyone else remember why British humorist Alan Coren published a collection titled Golfing for Cats with a swastika on the cover? NYMag‘s Vulture blog has an anniversary interview with Chris Carter: On September 10, 1993, a strange series called The X-Files infiltrated Friday nights on Fox, with brooding story lines involving government …
Moral Mondays Balloon Juice Meet up
The North Carolina Balloon Juice folks are meeting again: Please post that the NC Triangle-area BJers are meeting in Cary on Thursday, Sept 5, at 7pm at Maximillian’s Pizza Kitchen (around the corner from Maximillian’s): http://maximillianspizzakitchen.com/ Our special guest will be MsSpentYouth, a progressive activist, blogger at DailyKos, veteran of the Moral Monday protests in …
Early Morning Open Thread: Happy Labor Day!
. Professor Krugman has a history lesson: It wasn’t always about the hot dogs. Originally, believe it or not, Labor Day actually had something to do with showing respect for labor. Here’s how it happened: In 1894 Pullman workers, facing wage cuts in the wake of a financial crisis, went on strike — and Grover …
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Late Night Open Thread
Still in a Sons of Anarchy marathon, but fading fast. That’s been my earworm for two days.
Breaking Bad and whatever else you guys watch open thread
Today I installed a six ton long-throw pneumatic bottle jack, and a ratcheting cable puller in the storm shelter so that we can force the doors and lift a car off of it if we need to do that. Also installed a garage door opener and mowed, trimmed, and edged the lawn. Yay, me. And …
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Open Thread: What Might (Not) Have Been
Ah, the inexorable March of History. From John Grey’s TNR review of a Margaret Thatcher biography: … When, after several unsuccessful attempts elsewhere, she presented herself as a potential parliamentary candidate before Conservative Party members in Finchley in 1958, she expected “that the usual prejudice against women will prevail and that I shall probably come …
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