Awesome.
Open Thread
Go to town.
Open Thread
Via Josh Marshall:
If Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe had a life of its own, it would get a tax cut from a President Obama.
Vent.
If You Can
I know times are tough, but if you are so inclined to toss a few bucks to a good friend of this blog, I would appreciate it.
A present:
Rhode Island in the fall, sent in by a reader. The colors mirror what we see all over West Virginia this time of year (but with more mountains!).
Open Thread
For the record, I really do not care about Joe the Plumber’s background. All he did was ask a candidate for President a question, something I wish everyone got the chance to do at least once in their life. More power to him, and Obama seemed to enjoy the conversation, to boot. If I have the background right, Obama was right near his house, so he was not a plant, and then McCain foolishly thrust the poor SOB into the middle of a heated election. If anything, it makes me think less of the idiots in the McCain campaign, something I thought impossible. Now there are actual MSM reporters going all through his shit and posting it everywhere, and quite frankly, it sucks. Leave him alone. I am not saying you all have done anything wrong because I have not had time to check the comments today, but I looked at memeorandum and saw that mess and wanted to preempt any of it here.
Granted, the right-wing whinging is particularly rich after the Beauchamp/Schiavo/Graeme Frost incidents, and the attempts to blame media conduct in regards to Joe the Plumber on the Obama campaign are stupid and predictable, but just leave the guy alone. I don’t agree with him on a lot of issues, but the guy deserves the privacy I would want for myself and for the rest of you. And this, from the Counter-Sniffer in Chief, is just ridiculous.
On the other hand, it seems I have once again failed to be cynical enough in the Verizon/McCain thing.
At any rate, I may or may not be back later today, so here is a thread for you to talk about something other than that poor guy from Ohio who now has people digging all through his shit. Show some god damned decency, everyone.
*** Update ***
Folks, there is a marked difference between reacting to stupid things he tells the press and rooting through shit on the internet speculating about him. Comment all you want to any idiotic things he says.
*** Update #2 ***
And I have to say that this, coming from the Counter Sniffer in Chief and high priestess of the wingnut lynch mob, is just ridiculous.
Tuesday Thread
Thread it like you mean it.
His KungFu Is Still Strong
The Kung Fu Monkey reacts to Rich Lowry’s sparklevision:
Modern American Conservatives have sunk to the intellectual and emotional level of the guy who thinks the stripper really likes him.
Palin terrifies me. She is Warren Ellis’ Smiler, in a way Bush never was. I cannot sense any core beliefs except … well except nothing. All I can see is the winking, giggling folksy void. They tell her to spew some bullshit, and she salutes smartly and sells the hell out of it. Asked to go forth and spread old canards about Senator Obama being a “friend of terrorists”, something she never seemed to show any interest in before, she does so not just efficiently but with a perky glee. The proper human response, when asked to say things like this about a political opponent and Senator of the United States is so fundamentally “fuck no” that it is the unheard test question immediately following “You’re in the desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, struggling, and you’re not helping — why is that?”
There’s no shame, no consideration, no apparent native curiousity … but even more creepily no resentment at being treated like a prop, no chafing at her handlers assuming she’ll say absolutely anything they put in front of her. How can a human exist so fueled by hubris but without an ego? My lizard brain is screaming.
Bladerunner reference FTW.
BTW- Atonement on HBO tonight- worth watching?