Hats off to Jake Tapper for this exchange: The temperature in the White House briefing jumped up Wednesday afternoon as Jake Tapper and Jay Carney vented some of their frustrations with each other publicly. At one point, Tapper dissed Carney by saying he could provide a “room full of straw men” for the White House …
Archives for March 2011
Fukushima Makes Baby Bunnies Cry
This image accompanies Ashai Shinbum’s Fukushima coverage today, which reports that radioactive iodine in the discharge to the sea continues to grow. There have also been high levels of radiation discovered outside of the evacuation zone (up to 40 km north). The levels there are twice the level that triggered evacuations around Chernobyl, yet no …
Prom Night In The Cosmos/My High School Wasn’t Like This
A bit of (not exactly) random beauty — and a lovely story parsecs from politics — for your morning pleasure: (Link to a big tiff here.) The story: This image is the winner in the second annual contest the Gemini Observatory runs for Australian high school students, in which teams identify objects in the night …
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Charity or Purchase?
This report has been making the rounds: (via) Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the NY Times spent a reported $40-50 million writing the code (Bloomberg; other sources are …
Legislative LARPing
…. With a side of poorly-thought-out BDSM. Dana Milbank brings news of how “Republican freshmen in House shut down compromise, and possibly the government“: … A band of the first-term members of Congress demonstrated their legislative maturity Wednesday by announcing, in a news conference outside the Capitol, that they wished to deliver a message to …
Late Night Open Thread
__ Home is the place where / When you have to go there / They have to take you in… Of course, some people are tragically easy to take in.
Eric Turner (R-Ind.) Thinks Women Are Going to Lie About Rape and Incest to Get Free Abortions Because of Course He Does
I would like to shove my foot directly up this asshole’s giant loophole. The Teabilly assholes in Indiana are trying to pass HB 1210. It’s an abortion bill because of course it is. And concerned Rep. Turner is concerned — that women are going to lie about rape and incest to get… oh, go read …