Another night with my favorite lady:
Watching an episode of Longmire, which is actually really fun. Plus it has Starbuck.
*** Update ***
Tunch is just fine, for those of you asking:
by John Cole| 84 Comments
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Another night with my favorite lady:
Watching an episode of Longmire, which is actually really fun. Plus it has Starbuck.
*** Update ***
Tunch is just fine, for those of you asking:
This post is in: Election 2012, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
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My thanks to commentor Lahke, because I like Steven Sondheim even more than I loathe Willard Romney.
And for the Obama Optimists among us, for your FaceSpace Pinterest wallboard tweets, via Matt Taylor at Slate:
Sam Stein at the Huffington Post gets hold of an Obama TV spot airing in key swing states (but unannounced by his campaign) that responds to Republican Super PACs that have been pummeling him with his “the private sector is doing fine” gaffe in their ads
Apart from the ever-popular setting one’s hair on fire, what’s on the agenda for this evening?
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by DougJ| 176 Comments
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With so much drama in the BJC, I thought we could use something like this:
Share your own links and facts or talk about whatever.
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Via LGF, some music to raise up your spirits. (The documentary, it appears, is available for streaming on Netflix.)
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And for those who need distraction from fretting over the intransigence of the Roberts Court, Paul Krugman and Robin Wells have a review that the NYRB headlines “How Politics Is Crushing the Economy” and they call “Getting Away With It“:
When Obama was elected in 2008, many progressives looked forward to a replay of the New Deal. The economic situation was, after all, strikingly similar. As in the 1930s, a runaway financial system had led first to excessive private debt, then financial crisis; the slump that followed (and that persists to this day), while not as severe as the Great Depression, bears an obvious family resemblance. So why shouldn’t policy and politics follow a similar script?
But while the economy now may bear a strong resemblance to that of the 1930s, the political scene does not, because neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are what once they were. Coming into the Obama presidency, much of the Democratic Party was close to, one might almost say captured by, the very financial interests that brought on the crisis; and as the Booker and Clinton incidents showed, some of the party still is. Meanwhile, Republicans have become extremists in a way they weren’t three generations ago; contrast the total opposition Obama has faced on economic issues with the fact that most Republicans in Congress voted for, not against, FDR’s crowning achievement, the Social Security Act of 1935…
So… What’s on the agenda for the start of the new week?
by John Cole| 26 Comments
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My big plan was to go to bed after Newsroom, but once again I got sucked into a complete viewing of the Blues Brothers. It’s just perfect.
Orange whip?
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I got the solar powered attic fan in and running yesterday. The A/C seems to be working a bit less, but we’re still too early to know how long the payoff will take. Sitting around watching DIY network, and wondering where these people get all this energy to work outside.
Going to a movie with the soonerdaughter here shortly. Soonerson has been having a devil of a time finding a job this summer, as has his cousin. OK has low unemployment primarily because of the energy sector, but the cities still have a surplus of talent, and that’s making things hard for young people. Why hire an 18-year-old when a 25-year-old with a degree can be had for the same price?
Anyway, not much going on around here today. Got the mowing done this morning, so I don’t have to be outside in the heat this afternoon. It’s supposed to reach 99 to 100 today and get hotter during the week.
EDIT: After some deliberation, I passed on the unit from Home Depot, and bought this one from Amazon.
by $8 blue check mistermix| 14 Comments
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Work Drugs, “Philadelphia’s premier Bat Mitzvah and Quincenera party band”, has a new album ready for pre-order on Bandcamp. When I find a band I like, I tend to buy their music via Bandcamp because they have a no bullshit business model: stream whole tracks and if you like it, buy it. I first learned about Work Drugs from a great local music blog, Tympanogram, which is back after a short hiatus.
Here’s an open thread.