Power has been out since about 7 o’clock last night, and they don’t know when they will have it back on. I am seriously considering buying a natural gas generator that automatically kicks on. I need one that will supply enough power for my fridge, my freezer in the basement, and my desktop. Any suggestions?
Archives for June 2012
Saturday Morning Open Thread: MittWitt
(Pat Oliphant via GoComics.com) __ According to Liz Colville at Wonkette, looks like Willard has gone full Palin: … While in Virginia on Friday, Romney said that while America may be “the land of opportunity for every single person,” when it comes down to it there is not quiiiiiiite enough opportunity to go around, and …
More Open Thread goodness
H/t Wag Cole’s power seems to be out. Drunken Cole posting will resume as soon as possible.
Friday Evening Open Thread: Seriousness
__ Dave Weigel at Slate reports that “The Gay Republican Presidential Candidate (Whom You Never Heard of) Calls it Quits“: Karger, a successful Republican strategist who’d come out of the closet and quit working for other candidates, had launched a quixotic campaign with one real purpose: Hounding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints …
#TWIBRADIO: Obamacare is Good and Legal
I filled in for L. Joy Williams yesterday on “This Week in Blackness” aka “Blacking it Up” aka “This Week in Blackness” with Elon James White and Aaron Rand Freeman. Take a listen if you’re inclined. The first hour is the actual #TWIBradio broadcast in which you can hear me describe CNN as the “R. …
Evening Music Thread
I’m onto my third gimlet, and I’m wingnutted out, so I bring you this – a wonderfully disconcerting little film by Charles De Meyer called Esther’s, which I was introduced to on Boing Boing and which has a very fine dubstep trip-hop soundtrack by Amon Tobin. and this – a lovely remix of Florence and …
Wingnuts’ Failed Attempt to Blame Obama Administration for the Waldo Canyon Fires in Colorado
The wingnuts are trying their damnedest to blame President Obama for the fires in Colorado when, in the reality-based world, their own small government free market Ayn Randian policies are to blame. In other words, shut up, Michelle Malkin.