I’ve been away from the computer for a few days, so I’m putting this up on Sunday rather than the usual Friday. As always, from JPK at Can’t Explain. Brighter Side of Darkness, “Love Jones” (1973) This is one case where the parody, “Basketball Jones” by Cheech & Chong, turned out to be more popular …
Archives for January 2012
Open Thread
My word, Eric Cantor on 60 Minutes was just wretched. Speaking of wretched, how about the AFC West? Steelers at 12-4 have to fly to Denver to take on the 8-8 Tebows in a wild card match. Could turn into one of the ugliest games in NFL history.
Open Thread: TPM’s 2011 in 100 Seconds
__ Talking Points Memo boils it down for us. Of course, half these clips will be incomprehensible (except to political junkies with grudges) within five years, and there’s bound to be omissions that future archivists will wonder at. __ Who’s got nomination(s) for the “How could they not include…?” files?
NFL Open Thread
Your team sucks. Unless your team is the Steelers.
A Conversation Starter
How is he wrong? Obama has done a lot of those things that piss me off, Paul has opposed them, and I still think that Obama is a far better choice than Paul. Why is that so hard to understand?
Department of Predictions
From this morning’s Toledo Blade: Investment from resurgent American automakers made big news in 2011, with General Motors and Chrysler announcing multiple large projects in Toledo and northwest Ohio that together total nearly $1 billion and should create or help preserve almost 3,400 jobs. Promise for the future of manufacturing in northwest Ohio was one …
Signing Statement
By request, here’s President Obama’s signing statement for the defense authorization bill he signed yesterday.