Sweet jeebus the trolls have been busy. Went down the street to my parent’s house for dinner, which was nice. Relaxing with three dogs on my lap and getting ready top watch some WVU basketball at nine. Really excited for the good bowl games to start soon. Oh, and BUY A CALENDAR BUY A CALENDAR …
Archives for December 2011
Open Thread
Don’t forget to buy your Balloon Juice Pet Calendar for 2012!
Making Governing Impossible
Apparently the WH has agreed to delay their request to increase the debt limit so the Republicans will have an opportunity to grandstand and attempt to renege on their previous agreements: When the administration announced this week that it intended to initiate the debt ceiling increase by December 30, it stumbled into problem. Congress isn’t …
Great Sentences: Daniel Deronda edition
Blogger’s note: What follows is some 1,200 words on writing and reading. Nothing to do with politics at all, nor snark, alas. So get off here if you’re not of a mind for some of what we would have called in the dead-tree era of magazines a “back-of-the-book” piece. If, on the other hand, y’all …
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“The Year Ahead in Mitt”
David S. Bernstein, at the Boston Phoenix, has a helpful calendar of 2012 Willard-mania, during which “we in Massachusetts will be seeing more of him than we did when he was governor“: JANUARY 3: IOWA CAUCUSES After many months of acting like he wasn’t competing for the votes of the Iowa Evangelical conservatives who rejected …
Open Thread: Where is the Harmony?
Nick Lowe says that this is the first original song he wrote.
How Doctors Die
Ken Murray, a Family Practice physician at USC, has an interesting post about death: It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the …