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Friday Night Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  October 28, 20119:59 pm| 31 Comments

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The “young lady” protestor’s sign just about sums it up.
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What’s on the agenda for this weekend?

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    October 28, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    Same as every weekend. Procrastination.

  2. 2.

    JGabriel

    October 28, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    Anne Laurie:

    What’s on the agenda for this weekend?

    Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged Pt. 1 is finally available for bittorrenting on pirate download sites!

    I can’t decide whether to download it (for the irony!) or wait for the porn parody.

    .

  3. 3.

    Dee Loralei

    October 28, 2011 at 10:09 pm

    Anne Laurie, later when it gets up, can you post Rachel’s brilliant diatribe about FP Mag using Wolfowitz and Michael O’Hanlon to write about what’s next for Afghanistan? She also tells Condi, W and Cheney to shut up too! It made me giggle.

    ETA: damned typos

  4. 4.

    lamh34

    October 28, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    If ya’ll missed this segment on Hardball with Rep Guitterrez & Sanchez on Marco Rubio, you missed a good one (one of the few with Tweety lately). You can tell Rep Guitterrez wanted to say so much more! Rep Sanchez was way more delicate but she agreed with Guitterrez.

    Marco Rubio’s changing narrative

    Washington Post recently broke the story that Marco Rubio is actually the son of immigrants, not Cuban exiles as he first claimed. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois, and Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., discuss whether Rubio’s version of his history was a ploy for the Hispanic vote.

  5. 5.

    piratedan

    October 28, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    anime…lots and lots of anime, nothing like adolescent fantasy to give you some quality escapism

  6. 6.

    Cliff in NH

    October 28, 2011 at 10:35 pm

    Brought the tomatoes on the porch, since its been freezing the last few nights, and the next week.. Still hoping I can get some of the last 11+ to ripen properly.

  7. 7.

    Scott P.

    October 28, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    George Will attacks Romney:

    Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from ‘data’ … Has conservatism come so far, surmounting so many obstacles, to settle, at a moment of economic crisis, for THIS?

  8. 8.

    Southern Beale

    October 28, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    I’m watching Bill Maher. Michael Ware must be coked up or something. He can barely sit still. Something is way off there.

    And Ron Christie is looking like such a dufus. I keep expecting someone else on the panel to pat him on the head and hand him a lollipop.

  9. 9.

    Hill Dweller

    October 28, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    Bill Maher is a moron. Norquist was on there shoveling shit, but Bill couldn’t keep up.

  10. 10.

    Southern Beale

    October 28, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    Also, my gaydar is going off BIG time on Ron Christie. Is he gay?

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack

    October 28, 2011 at 10:58 pm

    Switching between the World Series finale and an unplanned Chuck mini-marathon on DVR. I had forgotten I had the last four episodes unwatched on DVR, and I need to get through those before I watch the new one from tonight.

    I am realizing that I was sort of losing patience with Chuck, which is why those episodes have sat unwatched since May. The writing seemed to go downhill last season, and the “cute” factor around the Chuck-Sarah relationship was starting to redline.

  12. 12.

    Southern Beale

    October 28, 2011 at 10:58 pm

    I thought Charles Pierce hit it out of the park with this one:

    The Republican Addiction to Attack Politics Has Backfired

  13. 13.

    Southern Beale

    October 28, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    Every other word out of Ron Christie’s mouth is “America,” which probably works with a Fox News audience but clearly he’s over his head on Bill Maher.

  14. 14.

    Hill Dweller

    October 28, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    @Southern Beale: Agree about Ware. If I recall correctly, he has had some drinking issues. That said, seven years in Iraq will drive anyone to drink.

    Maher said something that I hadn’t heard: Bush has an approval rating on 47%. We really are the stupidest country in history.

  15. 15.

    Southern Beale

    October 28, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    Tonight’s show is like a parody of a real Bill Maher Show. This is crazy. Maher just told his panelists to shut the fuck up.

  16. 16.

    Southern Beale

    October 28, 2011 at 11:06 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    Bush has an approval rating of 47% right now? Hell yeah I approve of him: he’s not in office, he’s staying off the news, he’s keeping his mouth shut. As long as Bush stays off my radar I approve of him completely. Clear brush and play golf, dude, and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    October 28, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    The NBA is full of suque.

    http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/28/4014892/nba-cancels-all-games-through.html

    That is all.

  18. 18.

    Hill Dweller

    October 28, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    @Southern Beale: Cornell West said the same thing.

    I still don’t think most people appreciate just how damaging the Bush term was for this country. They managed to elevate corruption and incompetence to new levels, and we are still paying for it. Bush is going to have to do a lot of good with the his remaining time on earth in order for me to ever “approve” of him.

  19. 19.

    piratedan

    October 28, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    @Southern Beale: agreed SB, I get miffed when I keep hearing about people being upset that the change hasn’t happened fast enough and that they think that once he was elected he had some sort of unstoppable mandate to effect change across the land. There’s still a boatload of “unfuck” that has to be done and naturally the R’s are doing their damnedest to leave as much of that in place as they can to show that Washington is broken, so put us back in charge because, after all, we’re responsible for most of the breakage.

  20. 20.

    Hill Dweller

    October 28, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    The Rangers are never going to win a World Series if they keep bringing Dubya, who has f’d up everything he has ever touched, out for his rehabilitation tour.

  21. 21.

    JGabriel

    October 28, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    George Will via Scott P.:

    Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from ‘data’ …

    You can almost hear Will spitting the word “data” with venomous contempt, as if it were shit, or pus, or some vulgarity even more revolting such as someone living on less than six figures a year.

    .

  22. 22.

    John Weiss

    October 28, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    @Southern Beale: Why do you care whether Ron Christie is gay?

  23. 23.

    srv

    October 28, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    What’s on the agenda for this weekend?

    Well, it was a tossup between Occupy SF march or Kevin Spacey in Richard III… I’ll have some angst with Richard.

    Then I’ll mosey over to Oakland for awhile.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 28, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    @srv: Are you a Yorkist who takes issue with the Tudor propaganda that Billy Shakes was writing?

  25. 25.

    RoonieRoo

    October 28, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    This weekend is finishing a new path addition to the garden and LOTS of Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One.

  26. 26.

    Judas Escargot

    October 28, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    @JGabriel:

    From Twilight of the Idols:

    [W]ith dialectics the plebs come to the top. Before Socrates, dialectic manners were repudiated in good society: they were considered bad manners, they were compromising. The young were warned against them. Furthermore, all such presentations of one’s reasons were distrusted. Honest things, like honest men, do not carry their reasons in their hands like that. It is indecent to show all five fingers. What must first be proved is worth little.

    George Will. Nietzschean Overman.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 28, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    @Judas Escargot:

    George Will. Nietzschean Overman.

    Just no.

  28. 28.

    Cris (without an H)

    October 28, 2011 at 11:57 pm

    I watched a few minutes of Barbara Walters’ “Billionaire Secrets: What They Know That Can Change Your Life” 20/20 special, which seemed to be intent on putting a human, compassionate fate on the poor misunderstood 1%. ABC is going in with Galt.

  29. 29.

    Judas Escargot

    October 29, 2011 at 12:00 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    In his own mind, of course.

    I think that’s what the little bow tie is supposed to signify.

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 29, 2011 at 12:05 am

    @Judas Escargot: I still say no. I simply cannot accept that anyone could see him that way. I understand that this is my problem, and I will deal with it.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 29, 2011 at 12:08 am

    Looks like BoA blinked: http://www.ajc.com/business/chase-wells-fargo-drop-1212316.html

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