You have to hand it to whoever runs Sarah Palin’s operation. They know that she is putty in the hands of spoof comedians. It’s like a feeding frenzy for Colbert wannabes; just ask an innocently worded question and let her mouth run. Just like the McCain campaign, her current handlers clearly recognize the wisdom of …
Archives for November 2009
Open Thread
elmo, Boats on Lake George. Mammoth Lakes, CA. Rob Kleeman, Indiana Sunrise. 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 caption if you want one. Click on …
Adverse Selection
I hope that the rest of the health care bill is freaking awesome. I really do. Because without some major changes the public option is going to suck. What will stop insurers from dumping expensive undesirables into a public ghetto? A guilty conscience? An unprotected public option will do one of two things. Either it …
Thanksgiving outside the Beltway
Stories like this never turn up in Kaplan’s anti-health care reform screeds: Wes and Katie Covington, from Smyrna, Tenn., were already in debt from a round of fertility treatments when complications with her pregnancy and surgery on his knee left them with unmanageable bills. For Christine L. Phillips of Nashville, it was a $10,000 trip …
It Seems We Have a New Wingnut Commenter
This made me laugh: Maybe you could post about the struggle to figure out how the smartest bunch of folks to ever grace the White House could manage to spend $300 billion dollars (the rest to be spent next year, and that’s just the stimulus) and have unemployment be 2% above your fearmongering projections with …
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Happy Thanksgiving
Go eat some turkey.
Late Night Open Thread
I’m lying here with Lily on my chest, and while I love Tunch, I honestly don’t think I have ever loved any one or thing as fully and unconditionally as I love this dog. I know there are some of you who will not understand and think this is an attack on Tunch, but it …