Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
by DougJ| 32 Comments
This post is in: Sports, Good News For Conservatives
Jon Gruden drives me nuts. You wanna talk about a guy who yells too much? You wanna talk about a guy who thinks he’s being edgy when he says the obvious? You wanna talk about a guy who can flat annoy me?
Then again, the only football announcer I ever liked was Pat Summerall.
Update. Who is more annoying, the long-haired UPS white board guy or the faux-Native American IBM “smarter grid” guy?
by DougJ| 135 Comments
This post is in: Crock Pot Craziness, Good News For Conservatives
John’s gone Galt for the evening and I’m feeling too down for politics, for various reasons I won’t go into. Okay, I will. I couldn’t sleep last night after the Colts-Patriots game.
So this is going to be a sad attempt at John-type post. I’ve been making steel-cut oatmeal in my slow-cooker and, while it’s delicious, it’s kind of a pain. Even with a four-to-one water-to-oats ratio, it runs out of water and starts sticking to the sides. Should I use cooking spray? Just add a ton more water? Keep it on “warm” the whole time instead of having it “cook” at all?
Any particular recipes people like for this? I like the idea of adding dried fruit.
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This post is in: Open Threads
It was sunny this afternoon so we went to rails to trails, and after Lily went to the bathroom for the eighth time, I caught myself singing:
I’m sure Slick Rick would kill himself if he heard me.
With FSM as my witness, I used to be cool. I swear.
Consider this an open thread, as I’m going out for dinner.
by DougJ| 126 Comments
This post is in: Assholes, General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now
Even the liberal Mark Shields misses George W. Bush.
SHIELDS: We have a president of real intellectual horse power who is cool, detached and analytical and if anything you can watch the emotional side of him emerge in this whole process. … There’s an emotional aspect, the comforter in chief as well as the commander in chief. Both roles. And I think it makes me nostalgic for those days when we had a manly man in the White House who could say, “Let’s kick some tail and ask questions afterwards” you know? That’s what we really need instead of any reflection.
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Update. I watched it again and I’m pretty sure he’s being sarcastic. If I’d known he was from Weymouth, I would have guessed this right off.
by DougJ| 99 Comments
This post is in: Domestic Politics, Food, Assholes, Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now
It’s easy to romanticize the past, of course. But I distinctly remember that 20 years ago, things like sudden increases in the number of people going hungry were considered important issues. Nowadays to even muse about whether this is something we can do something about as a society marks you as an unserious hippie. Even as we speak, Slate/Levitt/TNR are probably writing something along the lines of “you think that having a high percentage of the population without access to food is bad, but once you get past the conventional wisdom of our hippie overlords, you’ll see that blah blah blah.” David Brooks is probably on the Snooze Hour telling E. J. Dionne that the only solution is food vouchers and, anyway, in Red America, the hungry can always visit the Applebee’s Salad Bar for free. Robert Samuelson and Fred Hiatt are cooking up some bogus figures to tell us that there is no way that we, as a society, can do anything about this. And, anyway, Michael Moore is fat, so how can anyone really be hungry?
What the hell happened? How did all the conservative talking points become so thoroughly internalized in this country?
This post is in: Science & Technology
Since it has been about six days since we have had an OS flame war, let me state that one thing I hate about Apple is that no matter what program I want to use, whether it be firefox, itunes, office, photoshop, dreamweaver, or acrobat, any time I try to use a program I have to install critical updates for five minutes first.
Now you can say this is not Apple’s fault, per se, but I do not run into these issues on Windows Seven. They just install themselves at night. I swear to God Itunes updates more than Drudge.
by DougJ| 267 Comments
This post is in: Domestic Politics, Good News For Conservatives
The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a government report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children.
In 2008, the report found, nearly 17 million children — more than one in five across the United States — were living in households in which food at times ran short, up from slightly more than 12 million children the year before. And the number of children who sometimes were outright hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million.
Among people of of all ages, nearly 15 percent last year did not consistently have adequate food, compared with about 11 percent in 2007, the greatest deterioration in access to food during a single year in the history of the report.
I’m going to give more money to local food banks this year than in the past. But only a glibertarian would think that personal charity is the solution to this shameful problem.