I’m on day two of my blog hiatus. Not dead.
Archives for January 2012
Occupy the Toybox
Lego figurines, Kinder surprises and other toys played the role of ‘demonstrators’. Photograph: Sergey Teplyakov/vkontakte __ I would love this even I didn’t have a half-dozen tchotchkes on my desk right now. From the Guardian: Police in the Siberian city of Barnaul have asked prosecutors to investigate the legality of a recent protest that saw …
Send the Panty Sniffing Squad to Inspect Mitt’s Magic Underoos
Now that Michelle Obama’s underwear is up for discussion at all the usual wingnut sites, can we start talking about Mitt Romney’s? After all, for a Mormon, it’s “the most sacred of all things in the world, next to their own virtue, next to their own purity of life”, so I’d think that it’s something …
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Open Thread
Squirrel! Chat about whatever.
Don’t envy him his plane, you jealous leftists
We had an organizing event here Saturday, at a diner. Angela Zimmann was there, she’s running for the US House: And John Vanover was there, he’s running for the Ohio legislature. That is his first wife standing there with him: We talked about a lot of things, but I think I can safely say the …
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I’m still not clear on why conservatives don’t want people voting early, yet they do want people voting absentee
Sunshine in the sunshine state: Election experts and Democratic voting advocates told U.S. senators Friday that a Republican-backed overhaul of Florida election laws will suppress Democratic turnout in the nation’s biggest battleground state next fall. Democratic Sens. Bill Nelson of Florida and Dick Durbin of Illinois held a field hearing at the Hillsborough County Courthouse …
Reince, watch, repeat
What struck me about that clip from old man Schieffer that mistermix put up wasn’t so much how offensive Reince’s comparison was but how obscure it was. How many viewers could possibly have known who Captain Schettino is? I had no idea. I had heard of the crash, but not to the point where I …