Into the future: If Democrats didn’t have all the incentive they needed to pass health care reform already, then conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh may have provided the final push they needed by vowing to flee the country if the reform bill is passed. Responding to a caller who asked him where he would go …
Archives for June 2012
Open Thread–the salt of wingnut tears
Gosh, I haven’t seen conservatives this mad at the Supreme Court since Brown v. Board of Education. h/t to Erik Loomis, of Lawyers, Guns, and Money. In addition to updates on your puppies and children and TV shows and other goings on in your lives, shoot us a link to the most wingnutty freak-out you’ve …
Thursday Recipe Exchange: Chipotle Macaroni Salad
(Photo by JeffreyW) __ From our Food Goddess, TaMara (who added a postscript to her email this afternoon: “At the moment it’s actually raining, don’t know yet if it’s enough to help the fire fight – but couldn’t hurt.”) What a week. The Colorado wildfires became personal again, as my office was smack in the …
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I know I need a small vacation
I’m going off the grid til Sunday. The outskirts of Apsen is a great place for camping but there’s hardly any 3G coverage on AT&T. In the meantime, continue to give it up for metrosexual black Abe Lincoln vampire hunter. We raised 2500 bucks yesterday. Big, big win today.
Open Thread
Sweltering heat here today. Got home and realized I had not turned on the AC and it was 80 inside the house. Currently waging an argument with Rosie that it is just too damned hot for her to sit on my lap, and I am losing. She either sits on the ground staring at me …
Trolling in the deep
Bobo is just fucking with us, right? At the Aspen Ideas Festival, we’re asking the gathered range of financial and political jet-setters one big question a day. Today: How does the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare alter the legacy of Chief Justice John Roberts? David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times “It says he’s a Burkean minimalist …
Song of the week
Hey, a good day! Here’s a long song of the week. What are you listening to tonight? Pharoah Sanders, “The Creator Has a Master Plan” (1969) (full version here)