Here are a couple of emails I missed posting earlier this week:
* Brian sends some photos and video from a Taiwanese LGBT parade.
* Nancy sent a post from an Arkansas paper’s blog about Mitt Romney’s relationship with Robert Bork.
Have you seen anything good this week?
Linda Featheringill
Daughter unit won a prize for the best new playwright. The contest and the prize are very, very local but still . . . .
RossInDetroit
Hell of a lightning storm last night. It’s childish but I still get a thrill out of nature blasting the hell out of something with electricity.
For me, the story of the week is Mitt folding like a cheap lawn chair over having an out gay advisor. Not that discrimination itself is news, everyone knows about that. But it was a perfect illustration of Mitt’s lack of spine and the excessive influence of the social conservative right over the GOP.
JGabriel
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mistermix @ Top:
Oooh, sexy.
Edited To Add: The problem with making certain jokes is that now it’s going to take years of expensive therapy I’ll never be able to afford or receive to scrub that image out of my brainpan. The things I do for you people.
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NotMax
Funny you should ask. Just watched a BBC program on poverty in America today originally broadcast earlier this year.
30 minutes not anywhere near close to sufficient time to report in any depth, and too much emphasis of putting the situation on Obama’s plate over that (collectively) of Congressional Republicans (as well as the previous administration), but still worth a watch.
If little Leslie (at about 13 minutes in) doesn’t break your heart, you have none of which to speak.
JGabriel
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It might be worth front-paging this video from the Obama campaign, on the latest Koch funded attack ad. They’re requesting that people share it and spread it around — from the video:
(Via Eclectablog @ DKos)
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Linda Featheringill
A moment of Zen:
Cat napping in the morning sun, in a silent house. The only one stirring is me.
No pics, camera needs new battery.
jurassicpork
Blanche DuBois Redux. I’d held off writing this post for as long as I could but necessity forced me to.
TooManyJens
Not good, but for those of you following the Chronicle of Higher Education / Naomi Schafer Riley shitstorm, the person in charge of “Leading Content Promotion” at the CHE is busily making things worse on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/Chronicle_Amy/
Highlights include telling people that they should get upset about real issues instead, and implying that her critics are not media literate and don’t understand journalism or the First Amendment. Good times!
Ben Cisco
RomTron3000 didn’t like the jobs report and said we should be adding more per month. Apparently, he borrowed McArdle’s calculator to figure out just how many.
http://myreadyroom.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/gastritis-broke-his-calculator-too/
trollhattan
I can’t/son’t call this “good” but TBogg catches Malthaus drunk-blogging (sorry,
ifI’m being redundant).As usual, she’s in full Freudian-Projection Sechzytyme mode. Every time she opens her yap I rethink my position on public education.
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/05/03/oedipus-schmedipus/
trollhattan
Speaking of public education, Pierce had a great post on the Morrill Act, signed by Lincoln 150 years ago, establishing land-grant colleges.
Today’s Republicans would surely nominate this Lincoln fellow, amirite?
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/morrill-act-anniversary-8559120?hootPostID=a56599cc3589bc29d5e3db788d50b7fb
pragmatism
liked this about “2nd World Nations”: http://nationalinterest.org/article/surge-the-second-world-6806?page=show
also this on trucker serial killers from longform: http://thislandpress.com/04/04/2012/drive-by-truckers/