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Eye Rollers (Part I)
Steve Benen comments on the Washington Monthly blog: Long-time regulars may know I have quite a few “conversation enders.” These are comments that lead you to know, the moment you hear them, that the writer/speaker is either clueless or intellectually dishonest, and there’s really no reason to engage the person in a serious dialog. He […]
It Used to Have a Name
I’ve been away, attending a weekend hashing event in Colorado, shirking my duties as a blogger. We’re only just home . . . still unpacking, in fact . . . so this entry will be disorganized and short. Passing through Albuquerque last Thursday on our drive north, I heard on the radio that some New […]
National Day of Fear
Oh for Christ’s sake. Back in April, President Obama signed a law establishing September 11 as an annually recognized “National Day of Service and Remembrance.” Reaction on the right? Uh, about what you’d expect: The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 […]
What They’re Mad About
Digby, writing at Hullabaloo today about the anti-health care crowds that have been mobbing town hall meetings recently: This point is one that continues to amaze me. These people are coming unhinged over expanding access to health care. It’s not about taking away guns or mandating abortion or outlawing churches or some other issue about […]
Chad 2 NTSB: u’ve been pwned
Pwn: internet slang term, derived from the verb “own,” meaning to appropriate or conquer, implying domination or humiliation of a rival. — Wikipedia. From the New York Times, 21 July, 2009: Driven to Distraction U.S. Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving By MATT RICHTEL Published: July 21, 2009 In 2003, researchers at a federal agency […]
Those Were the Days, Gals Like Us We Had it Made
“I don’t think it will be the day after day after day of ethics violation charges that are frivolous, that are ridiculous. I think on a national level your department of law there in the White House would look at this, the things we have been charged with, and automatically throw them out, not make […]
Greening Up
I’m concerned about what appears to be a stolen election in Iran, and even more concerned about government violence and suppression of dissent. It’s encouraging, even exciting, that Iranians are finding ways around government censorship to get their story out to the rest of the world. In this country, conservative politicians are criticizing President Obama […]