(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) If three stories on the same day indicate a trend, even the WaPo is getting tired of listening to the One-Percenters snivel. Barbara Ehrenreich snarks on Super-Rich People Problems: The latest group to claim victim status is the rich. Actually the super-rich, whose wealth ordinarily exempts them from pity. While they …
Archives for October 2011
Football Open Thread
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A reader on the Brooklyn Bridge
A reader was on the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday with Occupy Wall Street and she wanted to give an account of what she saw: I was a protester on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, October 1. My friend and I joined the march a few blocks short of the bridge and were marching along chanting etc. …
Garlic Open Thread
Yesterday was the last day vendors at our public market were offering heaps of good basil, and the garlic is getting towards end of season, so I made way too much pesto yesterday. I used the trick illustrated in this video to peel the garlic, and it works pretty well. Consider this an open thread.
The 99%
It looks like Occupy Wall Street is the beneficiary of another unforced error by the New York Police, who apparently enticed members of the group onto the traffic lanes during a Brooklyn Bridge march, and then rounded them up and carted them to the hoosegow. This pointless exercise got the cops some more bad press …
Things that make Grammy laugh and laugh
The following are the results of Hot Air’s Monthly Presidential Candidate Poll Results. If you want to sully your computer with the detailed “polling results”, then you can go over here, but frankly one of us giving them hits is probably more than enough. I spent thirty seconds looking at their front page and feel …
Bring on the New Messiah
Rick Perry wants to invade Mexico. With that, I believe Governor Perry’s fifteen minutes are up and it’s time to invoke the designated savior rule once again. As soon as the beltway media settles the issue of whether he’s too fat to be President, I believe Chris Christie’s fifteen minutes are next. He better hurry …