DPL is a round-heels, I guess: Prepare to be Seduced by Madness [Jonah Goldberg] This has been making the rounds on the interwebs. It is a two-fistfuls-of-fantastic theory that The Shining was in fact Stanley Kubrick’s confession to faking the Apollo moonlandings (while filming 2001: A Space Odyssey). I think you’ll be surprised by just …
Archives for February 2010
Regulate
I don’t know how Rahm got to John Judis: [T]here is one extremely consequential area where Obama has done just about everything a liberal could ask for–but done it so quietly that almost no one, including most liberals, has noticed. Obama’s three Republican predecessors were all committed to weakening or even destroying the country’s regulatory …
When God sends you a shitty SCOTUS decision…
You make shitty-SCOTUS-decision-ade: In the wake of the Massachusetts Brown out — or — hastened by that event — the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wants their Senate candidate to emphasize two main points on the campaign trail: pin down Republican opposition to a tax on banks — and pin down Republican support of the Citizens …
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Open Thread
Felt pretty good when I woke up this morning, and then I went to rehab with a cute little perky therapist whose name I forget, but I think it might have been Dr. Mengele. I’m on to their ruse, though. Distract me with attractive and harmless looking females and hope I won’t notice THAT THEY …
Calling the Judicial Radicals Out
E.J. Dionne, bless him, is shrill: The nation owes a substantial debt to Justice Samuel Alito for his display of unhappiness over President Obama’s criticisms of the Supreme Court’s recent legislation — excuse me, decision — opening our electoral system to a new torrent of corporate money. Alito’s inability to restrain himself during the State …
Early Morning Open Thread
Tomorrow is a marker day — Candlemas, Imbolc, Groundhog Day — the point halfway between the Winter solstice and the Spring Equinox. Still plenty of ugly weather to live through, but as my Irish ancestors used to say, “Live, horse, and you’ll get grass.” Coldest weekend so far here in New England, but there’s a …