Nate Silver looks at the polls and says the Tea Party is genuinely growing unpopular among most Americans. Obviously, I’m no fan of teatards and I think that the American public is right to look unfavorably at them. But also too I think this is happening because the media has branded the Tea Party as …
Archives for March 2011
Yes Dear, I Do Remember When Women Were People Too
Blogging in haste whilst waiting out the sprout’s martial arts class, this from the ACLU blog seems an excruciatingly appropriate follow up to ABL’s post below: On December 23, 2010, [Bei Bei] Shuai, a 34-year-old pregnant woman who was suffering from a major depressive disorder, attempted to take her own life. Friends found her in …
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Open Thread
Took some pictures today of Rosie, and am emailing them to my friend who places dogs. I can’t take it any more. I’ve earned my star in heaven 72 virgins paid my debts to society and now I need this dog out of my life. I want my old life back with just Tunch and …
Gates on the Hill
If anyone watched the full testimony, if you can think of anything else that stood out, please fill us all in. However, I really liked this: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told Congress on Thursday that he opposed having the United States arm the Libyan rebels fighting Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and that it was up …
Shamelessness
Although I am skeptical about the Libya stuff, the shamelessness of some of the critics has been simply ridiculous. People who, like me, cheered on the invasion of Iraq, are now running around screaming about the “imperial Presidency” and other crap like that. It’s absurd. I’m not sure we are doing the right thing or …
Everybody get in line
Open thread, I figured we could use one.
Am I the Only One To Find This Creepy
And opportunistic: Representative Gabrielle Giffords is still in the hospital, but some of her most ardent backers are so enamored of the idea of her running for the Senate that they describe the inevitable campaign commercials: the deep-voiced narrator recounting what happened to her, the images of her wounded, then recovering and speaking into the …