The Daily Wh.at: Worthy Cause of the Day: Not a single episode of ABC’s uproarious new sitcom Modern Family goes by that I don’t find myself ranting and raving over the pseudo-progressivism of having an openly gay couple on a primetime TV show, and going out of your way to avoid having them show real-world physical affection toward one another. Happily, I am not alone in my diatribe: A Facebook campaign was recently launched to convince ABC to let the adorable duo smooch to their hearts’ content on national television. It may not seem like a big...
Continue reading...May 2010
"HAHA U ARE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE YOU CAN DELETE BUT THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS WAT YOU SED BITCH"
Oops? The Republican vying for Rep. Jerry McNerney’s seat in California’s 11th district, Brad Goehring, posted the following to his Facebook account yesterday: If I could issue hunting permits, I would officially declare today opening day for liberals. The season would extend through November 2 and have no limits on how many taken as we desperately need to ‘thin’ the herd. Of course, he claims it was a joke. And, maybe he didn’t hear about the last few times conservatives made “shooting at liberals” jokes. The post has been deleted, so maybe figured it out. But, as...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman Fries” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today\’s was a little difficult: both columns were a little dry, and neither said anything ridiculous. So, I\’ve...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Good morning, everybody. A woman in Miami Beach, Florida, has reported that Sammi \”Sweetheart\” Giancola, from \”Jersey Shore\” fame, attacked her in a nightclub on Saturday. Now, your morning constitutional: Following Gordon Brown\’s resignation yesterday, David Cameron gets to work today as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and has formed a coalition government with Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats. Cameron is the 13th Prime Minister since Elizabeth II took the throne in 1952 and the youngest (43) to take the job in over two centuries. The BBC has a run-down of his cabinet...
Continue reading...Ross Douthat Suuuuucks.
It will surprise no one to hear that Ross Douthat makes me mad. He makes me mad because his views are stupid, and because he doesn’t seem to believe in things like “data” or “facts,” and he also makes me real mad at the NYT Op-Ed page for hiring him in the first place. As Amanda Marcotte aptly points out in her takedown of Douthat’s column yesterday, his writing typically concludes with a take-home message “so factually incorrect that the newspaper ought to run the correction alongside it.” Marcotte and Rachael Larimore are currently hashing out the...
Continue reading...ConDems?
The insanity that has been the last week of British politics looks to be coming to an end. Somehow a coalition made up of the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives will be ruling Britain (at the pleasure of the Queen, of course.) The Tories did go further than I imagined they would to make this deal happen, a referendum on AV and several cabinet posts to name a few. It seems Nick Clegg will be deputy PM, with other Senior Lib-Dems, including Danny Alexander and Vince Cable, in important roles. Yet, I’m unclear as to how this...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman Fries” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today\’s is from Roger \”Life of the Party\” Cohen\’s column, \”Europa! Europa!\” There is something irresistibly comical about...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Good morning, folks. Bristol celebrated National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy by going to a hot New York club. Here\’s your morning constitutional: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai arrives in D.C. today for a visit hoped to warm the cold relationship between Afghanistan and the U.S. Yesterday, RNC Chair Michael Steele slamed Solicitor General Elena Kagan for \”her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution \”as originally drafted and conceived, was \’defective.\’\” Except the statement Kagan supported was from Justice Thurgood Marshall, and he was talking about slavery. In the U.K., the Liberal Democrats and the Tories have...
Continue reading...Another unelected Prime Minister for the U.K.?
A bit ago, I made a (likely inebriated) prediction to Estes that I suspected that David Miliband, who had served as Foreign Secretary in the last Labour government, would be Prime Minister before 2011. And, gosh darn it, it looks as though it might be closer to reality. Gordon Brown today announced that he will resign as soon as a new government is formed, an action that had been predicted would be a necessary preerequisite to any deal with the Liberal Democrats to form a government. The Lib Dems had first approached the Tories because the Tories...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today\’s is from Paul \”The Little Professor\” Krugman, who in today\’s...
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