Dana Milbank reports that Andrew Breitbart is an angry, angry man… with a book to sell. So I hoped for some much-needed slapstick comedy when Ken Layne at Wonkette posted on Saturday night: KOCH INDUSTRIES Breitbart-Palin Mob’s Next Target: Andrew Sullivan America’s surly unemployed white mouse-clickers need a little direction here. What website needs to …
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Republican voters discover bold and courageous cuts in school funding means less money is sent to their schools
The angry crowds are back, but this time they aren’t wearing silly hats: Battered by angry crowds at suburban school district meetings in recent days, House Republican lawmakers will offer up changes Thursday limiting the budgetary pain inflicted on schools by Gov. John Kasich’s budget proposal. House Finance Chair Ron Amstutz said many changes to …
Some Pirates Will Rob You with An AK47…
… and some with a “flag of convenience” that allows shipowners to avoid millions in taxes, not to mention environmental, health & safety regulations. Rose George in the NYTimes discusses “Flying the Flag, Fleeing the State“: Four American yachters killed; a Danish family of five and two crew members kidnapped: these events in the space …
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Game of Thrones, Borgias, etc.
Open Thread: Ok, Ok. Here’s something that won’t harsh your Easter mellow.
Spike Jonze recorded this video at an event to bring arts back into schools (a worthy cause, to be sure). It’s a collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and LA dancer Lil Buck. Incidentally, I have loved Yo-Yo Ma for twenty years, but now I can’t NOT hear “Yo-Yo Ma and Ghostface Killer to the stage for …
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Sunday Morning Open Thread
__ To those who celebrate it, Happy Easter! __ (Yeah, well, I didn’t use it when commentor Purple Girl sent it for the Year of the Rabbit, and this seemed as good an excuse as any.) __ Who’s got plans?
He Has Risen
Off the couch and is now wandering around the house chirping because we are making a lamb shank and ribs with a dry rub and the SMELL IS KILLING HIM: I have company and am taking the night off. Tammy let her husband loose for the week-end, so we are drinking wine and cooking up …