This is pretty awesome.
You’re welcome.
Boy Dunks Self Through Basketball Hoop at Phoenix Suns GamePost + Comments (55)
by Imani Gandy (ABL)| 55 Comments
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You’re welcome.
Boy Dunks Self Through Basketball Hoop at Phoenix Suns GamePost + Comments (55)
by E.D. Kain| 93 Comments
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I have to confess: I’ve never read Ayn Rand. Not once.
But I still think this is pretty amusing.
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(Jeff Danziger’s website)
How do y’all plan to spend your exciting weekends?
P.S. Anybody wants to take credit for the new category, give me a cite…
P.P.S. And commentor Wag is the one!
After Checkers, to the cosmopolitan liberals, hating Richard Nixon, congratulating yourself for seeing through Richard Nixon and the elaborate political poker bluffs with which he hooked the sentimental rubes, was becoming part and parcel of a political identity…
Four o’clock EST, this Sunday, we discuss the first two chapters of Nixonland.: the Rise of A President and the Fracturing of America.
The book is info-dense, but Perlstein’s range is giving me all sorts of details I hadn’t heard before, even though I consider myself fairly well read about Nixon’s pre-Watergate history.
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Greg Sargent, at the WaPo’s Plum Line, says that “David Brock’s big-money outside group gains steam“:
It looks like David Brock is getting more serious about building a powerful apparatus on the left to go head-to-head with the flood of outside money conservative groups are planning to pump into the 2012 elections.
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I’m told that Brock has made some major staff shifts within his Media Matters empire in preparation for 2012, shifting key staff over to a new third-party spending vehicle he’s created to spend big money on campaigns this cycle, which is called American Bridge.
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Brock will move Media Matters’ top communications director, Chris Harris, over to American Bridge, and he’s installing a new president and CEO at Media Matters, Matthew Butler. That will allow Brock to focus more energy on building out the new effort and enlisting major donors to finance it.
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Also: In another indication that Brock is shifting his empire harder into politics, he has enlisted one of the key architects of MoveOn’s growth over the last few years — operative Ilyse Hogue — to oversee a new Media Matters operation dedicated specifically to taking action against right wing media…
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Brock is a major Beltway player, and if his effort gains traction, it could have a real impact on the 2012 campaigns, helping to offset the lopsided advantage conservative groups are expected to enjoy. It’s also a sign that Washington’s power liberal types are getting serious about figuring out how to navigate the new, post-Citizens United landscape, which has clearly put them at a disadvantage.
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More broadly, the shift suggests that the brand of media criticism practiced by Media Matters is shading into outright guerrilla-style political activism against conservative groups and right wing media outlets alike — another symptom of the broader breakdown of old categories that will continue to roil our politics for the foreseeable future.
Interesting, if true. Since this is the Washington Post, y’all know to read the comments at your own risk.
Inside Baseball for Nerds: “American Bridge”Post + Comments (35)
by John Cole| 84 Comments
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I think I speak for everyone when I say that at times like this, when there is a serious crisis overseas, I thank Allah for Sarah Palin’s facebook page.
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The DFHs of the lamestream media are, not for the first time, underestimating the low cunning behind Palin’s who-lost-the-space-race “gaffe”:
“He needs to remember that, uh, what happened back then with the communist U.S.S.R. and their victory in that race to space,” the Fox News contributor said Wednesday night, reacting to Obama’s reference to Sputnik in his State of the Union speech. Palin called the Sputnik name drop one of the “W.T.F.” moments in the speech, a play of the President’s call for “winning the future.”
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“Yeah, they won but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union,” Palin said.
Dopey Snowflake Snooki, confusing the one-off triumph of Russia’s first-past-the-post Sputnik launch with the ongoing American efforts that led to putting our men on the moon itself!
Or maybe crafty Sarah ‘All Yer Heartlanders Are Belong to ME’ Palin, re-defining the collapse of a great superpower to better suit her side’s narrative. As conventional sane historians understand it, Russia’s collapse was precipitated by extravagant spending on military hardware, some of it in reaction to Reagan’s proposed ‘Star Wars’ militarization of space. But it is a sacred tenet of Palin’s fellows and supporters that there can never be “too much” military spending (especially if the people on the receiving end of such spending are supporting Palin’s continued media presence).
Recasting Sputnik — technically a military project, but one of those delayed-gratification science-y projects run by pocket-protector nerds, not a cool projectile-based genitalia enhancer with great visuals — as the cause of Mighty Russia’s downfall means it was the eggheads at fault, not the generals. Boo, stupid reality-based technocrats and their “But what happens after you push the red button and show everybody they’re not the boss of you, President Palin?” defeatism! Smart people, we’re the ones responsible for all the trouble in the world…