I hate to bring this up on a Friday night or, honestly, to go here at all, but we live in a country where carrying around pictures of the Dachau death camp to “protest” health care reform makes you an authentic representative of real America.
I wish there was [...]
Hard core dork tonight- Monk, White Collar, and a lot of Dragon Age, which I will tell you is by far the best RPG ever made by Bioware. Even better than KOTOR.
[...]Look, I know unemployment is over 10%, there was a shooting in Texas and another in Florida, the Republicans just staged a hatefest on the Capitol steps, and Afghanistan is still an issue, and Health Care reform is moving forward slowly, but what happened to all the hard hitting journalism [...]
Josh Marshall has said that the reason for the bizarre disconnect between national media and reality is simply that “Washington is wired for control”, that years of Republican political dominance has made it so that most of the important non-elected players see the world through Republican eyes. It’s certainly [...]
The lead story at memeorandum is Robert George’s condemnation of Obama’s insufficiently weepy statement after the Fort Hood shooting yesterday:
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the [...]
This is, as always, brilliant:
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The thing you need to keep in mind is that the lunatic he is mocking, Glenn Beck, is one of the driving [...]
General Winfield Stuck, The odd couple.
Yutsano, honeybee.
Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short [...]
I just heard some former administration official (Bush era, I am assuming, since he wore a bow tie, and using the Tucker Carlson/George Will theorem, the surest sign that someone is both an asshole and about to start spewing bullshit, but who knows for sure) on CNN state that more [...]
Independents are herds of cats who find out what they think through a meandering process of discovery. Right now, independent voters are astonishingly volatile. Democrats did poorly in elections on Tuesday partly because of disappointed liberals who think that President Obama is moving too slowly, but mostly [...]
I got nothing, and the news coverage is dominated by the shootings in Ft. Hood, and I don’t have anything to add to the speculation there.
I will say this, though- the speed with which Lily picks up anything even remotely edible and begins to chomp on it while I am [...]
Your weekly soul- and tummy-warmer, thank you Bad Horse’s Filly:
it’s always good to have a soup recipe on hand for when the cold weather returns. And there’s nothing better on a cold night than Creamy Potato Cheese Soup.
On the board tonight:
(1) Cream of Potato Cheese Soup
(2) Orange-Walnut [...]
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