Hippiehaus, “Galaxy” (2002) This is kind of pretty. I really used to go for some of those Hotel Costes anthologies. What sounded good to folks this week?
Archives for March 2012
It’s Friday, So You Know What That Means
Keith Olbermann has been fired in an acrimonious fashion, with both sides livid and displaying seething contempt for each other. Again.
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Even Flow
And the Arizona GOP is now taking panty-snifffing to an entirely new level, demanding that “the gestational age of the fetus should be ‘calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman.’” So in order to get an abortion, you now have to provide a bunch of old perverts a …
Anna Brown: 29-year-old Black Woman Dies in Jail After Being Dragged By Police Out of Hospital
This makes me hate people. Anna Brown had visited several hospitals complaining of pain in her legs. When she was ignored at St. Mary’s Hospital, she refused to leaved, screaming and yelling that she was in pain. The hospital had her arrested. The police dragged her out of the hospital and into a squad car. …
Open Thread: The Enemies of My Enemies
Via Washington Monthly‘s Ed Kilgore, a Facebook app for the aggressively aggrieved: (CNN) — To the dismay of some, Facebook has no “Dislike” button. But a new application for the social network may prove to be the next-best thing. __ The app, EnemyGraph, encourages Facebook users to list people or places or things they dislike, …
Whip Me, Beat Me, Call Me Trash, Kick Me With High Heels
Most of the time I try to avoid the worst of the worst in our media, but sometimes I am in the mood for a little psychic pain. When those urges arise, my go to columnists are Charles Lane at the WaPo and Bobo at the NYT. Many of you will think I should probably …
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Someone Is Off Message
He’s absolutely right, but this is kind of astonishing coming from a Republican: That’s Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell (R) advocating for single payer.