I love the smell of compassionate conservatism in the morning: Bankruptcy can clear away most debts. Yet sweeping changes to federal law in 2005 — pushed by the banking lobby — complicated that process and more than doubled the average cost of filing, to more than $2,000. Many low-income debtors must save for months before …
Archives for April 2010
Early Morning Open Thread
This year’s best First-of-April news article was scienterrific: A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world. __ The …
The long goodbye
Dan Quayle, of all people, has a piece in Kaplan about how woefully the tea baggers are being treated by the media: Since the very first tea party gatherings, the national news media has covered this movement in the only way it knows how — as something grubby, impertinent and possibly dangerous. Of course, in …
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
Take it away, Bad Horse’s Filly: I hadn’t made the poppy seed cake in a while and since I love poppy seed cake and raspberries, I thought I’d go ahead and recipe test it once again before tonight’s menu went up. I know, I know, the things I do for you guys. Decided to take …
Open Thread
Gipsy Kings seems to be what I am listening to tonight. Every time I hear this song I think of that silly movie Bedazzled with Brendan Fraser, someone I like because he completely does not take himself seriously. He just rolls with it and has fun, and I’m cool with that.
Feels Like Summer Around Here
It was up in the 70’s here today- got a bunch of work done, got the car washed, some more stuff unpacked, a couple loads of laundry finished, and am now sipping on a mojito. I’m sunburnt as hell, too. BTW- Got up and took Lily for a walk at like 6:30, then she “helped” …
New Carly Fiornia campaign commercial
Not quite as strange as the one with demon sheep.