Predictably enough, yesterdays’ snow storms prove that Al Gore is fat. Steve Benen has the details. I can’t get enough of this stuff. Here’s question: who is the most serious person who has used a snowstorm to make Al Gore jokes? Has Bobo ever done it, for example?
Archives for October 2011
NFL Open Thread
Your team sucks. Also, this song has been stuck in my head for three days: The 80’s were great.
Fracking Tensions
It seems fracking is causing all sorts of tension between residents of small communities: The dispute has pitted neighbor against neighbor, and has often set people who live in suburbs or villages against the farmers and landowners who live outside them. The discord is compounded by hard times on both sides and by communication online …
Occupy East and West
Out West, Police arrested protesters in Denver and Portland last night. I didn’t see any mention of serious injuries in either of those local reports. In the East, a big winter storm hit New York City and OWS is calling for donations of winter clothing. What’s going on in the occupation in your part of …
The Cain Mutiny
Herman Cain and Mitt Romney are essentially tied in today’s Des Moines Register Iowa poll, which is supposedly one of the more well-lubricated weathervanes measuring the fickle caucus-goer/pig farmer demographic. This is interesting because savvy Republican observers have been predicting that Cain’s supposed flip-flop on abortion would sour that group: Mr. Laudner, the abortion opponent, …
All dressed up for the spooky scene
Sometimes the stuff in National Review is so strange that I don’t know what to make of it. Consider that this article (via), about which British colonialist you should dress as to scare your liberal neighbors, goes on for three pages and lists something like eight (I lost count) possibilities: So, what better costumes to …
Former Alltel CEO Makes Odd Connection Between Occupy Wall Street and Rwandan Genocide
Hyperbole much? Former Alltell CEO Scott Ford gave a speech to the local Chamber of Commerce in Fort Smith, Arkansas during which he drew a comparison between the 99 percent Movement and the Rwandan genocide: Ford was the featured speaker at the event held in downtown Fort Smith at the Holiday Inn City Center. He shared …