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Wednesday Evening Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  April 6, 20116:02 pm| 31 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Assholes

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(Matt Davies via Gocomics.com)
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On the “small blessings” front, Dave Weigel at Slate says that Glenn Beck’s daily show on Fox will end sometime this year. (Because, some people say, why should Fox pay top dollar for the same crazy House Republicans relentless spout for free?)…

So, what are the leaky-eyed lunatics spluttering in your neighborhood tonight?

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  1. 1.

    Maude

    April 6, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    I saw the name Bam and didn’t know who it was until a comment in the last thread. That is Obama? Really?
    How far over the line is that?

  2. 2.

    Spaghetti Lee

    April 6, 2011 at 6:13 pm

    I think the Glenn Beck thing just goes to show how fast the crazy re-invents itself. 5 years ago people like Billo and Coulter were the number one name in crazy, but now they can’t catch up. Glenn’s just suffering the same fate, and the only question is how can they replace him. I’m hoping for the Breitbart/Malkin Power Hour.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 6, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    Leaky-eyed lunatics.

    Heh! Anne Laurie coins another classic.

  4. 4.

    JCT

    April 6, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    @Maude:

    How far over the line is that?

    Uh, what “line”? The Republicans left any semblance of a “line” in their rear view mirror when they hopped on the high-speed crazy train.

  5. 5.

    srv

    April 6, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    One might argue that if the listeners have gotten tired of the Profit of Doom, that they might be getting tired of the Natering Nabobs of Negativity in the House & Senate.

  6. 6.

    MobiusKlein

    April 6, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    A parade of Black Limos and Black Suburbans parked outside my office, downtown San Francisco.

    Some high muckety types doing something.

  7. 7.

    jeffreyw

    April 6, 2011 at 6:35 pm

    The high price of mulch has me sputtering. Not gonna even mention what the Mississippi bottoms top soil I have on order is costing.

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    Maude

    April 6, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    Just read a comment over at Benen. Ron Beyer (not sure about the last name) called Paul Ryan, Privatizing Ryan. Perfect.

    @JCT:
    I don’t know who came up with the name.

  9. 9.

    "Serious" Superluminar

    April 6, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    @AL
    hey, any chance we can have a scifi/anime thread sometime? It seems a while since we did one of them and there are quite a few fans here IIRC (including your good self).

  10. 10.

    OzoneR

    April 6, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    Did anyone else catch the Chris Christie blowjob on ABC Nightly News tonight. They showed him telling a teacher who is complaining about cuts “if you don’t want to do your job, don’t do it” and presented it as heroic.

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    srv

    April 6, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    @MobiusKlein: NORAD/NORTHCOM Cmdr is at World Affairs Council tonight.

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    hilts

    April 6, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    Glenn Beck’s show is ending about 2 years too late.

    Pawlenty Campaign Worker Put on Leave After Passing Out in Iowa Family’s Backyard
    h/t http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/04/06/tim-pawlenty-aide-in-iowa-suspended-after-arrest

  13. 13.

    jeffreyw

    April 6, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    Tho we did manage to plant a couple of blueberry bushes in a spot once overrun with honeysuckle. I liked the honeysuckle but Mrs J feared it was going to overrun the transformer on the pole it was climbing towards.

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    burnspbesq

    April 6, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    I understand that police have been posted at every overpass on the Mass Pike to keep Sox fans from jumping.

  15. 15.

    hilts

    April 6, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    @OzoneR:

    Did anyone else catch the Chris Christie blowjob on ABC Nightly News tonight.

    Diane Sawyer used to work for Richard Nixon.

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    Comrade Scrutinizer

    April 6, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    @hilts: Damn liberal media…

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    RareSanity

    April 6, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Man, Red Sox fans sure have gone from, “woe is me, it’s the curse of the Bambino”, to insufferable, entitled jerks quickly, haven’t they?

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    MikeJ

    April 6, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    @RareSanity: I was a Sox fan for decades before they won and I still am, but I’m glad I don’t live in Boston any more.

    I think the far flung fans have remained more levelheaded. It’s always my belief that they will let me down in the end.

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    J.

    April 6, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    If true, that is the best news I’ve heard today. Though it’s kind of like saying the Mets might make it to the playoffs this season. (Sorry, diehard Mets fan.)

    So, what are the leaky-eyed lunatics spluttering in your neighborhood tonight?

    Well, many concerned citizens have been up in arms about the new Wonder Woman’s outfit, which is way up there with a possibly government shutdown.

  20. 20.

    Roger Moore

    April 6, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    @Maude:

    How far over the line is that?

    Compared to calling him a Kenyan usurper, “Bam” seems quite mild. They called Babe Ruth “Bam” (short for Bambino in his case), so he’s in good company.

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    Nellcote

    April 6, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    CA’s top gooper fund raiser quit saying big bucks donors are getting fed up with party infighting and bullshit.

  22. 22.

    RareSanity

    April 6, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    @MikeJ:

    Sports fandom is a weird animal, especially in the northeast.

    I grew up in Atlanta, as such, I am a fan of all things Atlanta. I was in Boston for business last year, and during a conversation with a bartender, got asked why Atlanta fans were so “bad”. Apparently, this is a widespread belief across the country.

    I asked him, “what makes us bad?”, to which he replied, “you guys don’t sell out every game.”

    Well, this struck me as strange, because the impotence of Atlanta franchises is also well known. I told him, if the team’s good, we go to the game. If they suck, we don’t. If not supporting bad products makes us “bad fans”, so be it. I prefer to think that it makes us smart consumers, but, to each his/her own.

  23. 23.

    Josh

    April 6, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    I thought Bam was a homophobic boxer/attorney?

  24. 24.

    Joseph Nobles

    April 6, 2011 at 7:24 pm

    Glenn confirmed today on his teevee show that it would be no more at “the end of the year.”

    And then, suddenly, he told us that the sign he had been looking for in Europe, what he told us about two months ago, happened — the Archduke Ferdinand Moment (ADF Moment on chalkboard), the joining of Islamic radicalists and secularists in a common cause. Amazing that, on the same day he announced the end of his show, that the prophecy is fulfilled!

    On a related note, I hate final season plot cram-ins, you know, where the writers feel compelled to resolve every little thing. I don’t know why I’m reminded of that all of the sudden.

  25. 25.

    Nellcote

    April 6, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    @Joseph Nobles:

    Glenn confirmed today on his teevee show that it would be no more at “the end of the year.”

    He gets to do “special projects” though.

  26. 26.

    Anne Laurie

    April 6, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    @burnspbesq: Red Sox home opener isn’t till Friday. TRUE fans would never risk losing the opportunity to boo the Yankees in person, would they?

  27. 27.

    FlipYrWhig

    April 6, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    @RareSanity:

    I asked him, “what makes us bad?”, to which he replied, “you guys don’t sell out every game.”
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    I told him, if the team’s good, we go to the game.

    The usual line on Atlanta fans–of the Braves, at least–is that they/you don’t even sell out playoff games. So, no, even if the team’s good, you still don’t go to the game. By reputation, at any rate.

  28. 28.

    OzoneR

    April 6, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    @RareSanity: I’m a Yankees fan. I will never pay for Yankees tickets. I like the team because I am a born and bred New Yorkers and the Yankees are nostalgic New York, and I like the sport, but I would NEVER spend the money they’re asking to see it when I can watch it on TV.

    Ever

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    RareSanity

    April 6, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    @FlipYrWhig:

    The usual line on Atlanta fans—of the Braves, at least—is that they/you don’t even sell out playoff games.

    We did sellout playoff games, from 1991 till about 2000-01, then a string of unceremonious, early, exits from the playoffs became the habit and we lost interest. This is the south, it doesn’t take much for us to turn our attention back to college football. Funny how no one every brings up the rabid, fiercely loyal, multi-decade sellout, college football fans in the south, compared to the same in the northeast.

    It’s not really fair to bang on Atlanta about this. Atlanta is an extremely transient city, the majority of people that live here, aren’t from here. Also, we have only had pro sports since the mid sixties, and they were all bad for a good 30 years. Not a lot of built up tradition there. My very own father, born and raised in Atlanta, did not grow up a fan of Atlanta pro sports teams. There weren’t any. I’m a fan, my son is going to be a fan (if he knows what’s good for him), the children of the transplants we become fans.

    Not really sure if the Braves will ever, fully capture the magic of the early nineties again, this city is just wired for college football and the NFL.

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 6, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    @rare sanity. 1991-1992-1993 were as magic as any years I can remember in my life.

  31. 31.

    bob h

    April 7, 2011 at 7:05 am

    Providing the low income child with proper nutrition and educational advantages will damage that child’s future, according to Republicans.

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