There’s a link to Balloon Juice’s very own ActBlue page over there on the right-hand column —->, and we’re making good progress towards what Cole labelled “a very ambitious goal”. As a jumpstart, here’s an ad from one of the candidates we’re targetting, Scott McAdams: __ __ __ __ Thanks to commentor Linda Featheringill for …
Archives for September 2010
Not Like There Isn’t Anything Else to Do
Via PZ Myers, this odd story of a creepy Assistant Attorney General: For nearly six months, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, has waged an internet campaign against college student Chris Armstrong, the openly gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Using the online moniker …
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Cover of the Rolling Stone
Let’s everybody go buy at least one copy of the October 15 issue of Rolling Stone, and see if we can stealth-seed them into the waiting rooms at the dentist, Jiffy-Lube, Gymboree, the break room at the office, and wherever “low information” voters might be in need of an easily palatable update on How The …
It’s Money – Nothing More, Nothing Less
Henry Waxman, of all people, serves up another reminder that corporations run DC by adopting the Google/Verizon net neutrality plan as his own: How did we get from FCC Chair Julius Genachowski’s proposals for clear net neutrality enforcement and ISP transparency rules based on limited common carrier provisions to this? First, factor in massive pushback, lawsuit threatening, and …
There’s No Place Like the Senate
If Jim DeMint can singlehandedly shut down the Senate by just clicking his heels together three times, I can only imagine what he would be like as minority leader. I hope I see that day soon. This guy is a one-man wrecking machine.
Early Morning Open Thread: Pumpkin Season Pet Rescue
From commentor Bowler1701: This is Pumpkin. When she was a tiny kitten, I grabbed her from under the hood of our Beetle. We already had a house full of cats so I was going to ask our veterinarian to find a good home for her. After a few seconds of holding her close I couldn’t …
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Pot, kettle
I don’t see another explanation for what Tom Friedman was doing when he wrote this column: The Tea Party that has gotten all the attention, the amorphous, self-generated protest against the growth in government and the deficit, is what I’d actually call the “Tea Kettle movement” — because all it’s doing is letting off steam. …