I’m with DougJ- I used to watch every second of every convention, Democratic or Republican, and I have not so much as watched an instant of it. They are just lying and then parading the 15 or so minorities in the GOP before the camera. What’s the point of watching that? Think I’ll play some …
Archives for August 2012
You are an obsession, you’re my obsession
Look, I know that my hatred of Charles Lane is almost as unhealthy as my hatred of Bobo, but this is fucking ridiculous. Lane suggests that rather than fact check Paul Ryan’s speech last night, the media should go back and fact check a speech Obama gave in February 2008. The idea is that not …
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Open thread
I have not watched a single second of this Republican convention. I usually watch more or less the whole thing. It seems to me something has changed, that it’s now just a silly exercise in telling lies. And that’s not compelling tv. Talk about whatever.
Roland, The Campus Thomson Gunner
Add any Colorado public university as a place I do not wish to teach: Jerry Peterson, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly, said he would cancel classes if he found that someone had brought a firearm to class, according to the Daily Camera. …
Thursday Evening Open Thread: RNC Sideshows
(Jeff Danziger via GoComics – to embiggen) __ Paul Constant at the Stranger explains “God Saved Me From A Breitbart Documentary“: Yesterday, I attended a free screening of Hating Breitbart, a hagiographic documentary about Andrew Breitbart. The theater was about a quarter full, but it was packed with enthusiastic teabaggers, eager to cheer on proud …
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Your Romney Drinking Game: A choice between drunk or sober…
<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/59124558@N06/7896332128/” title=”Romney-Drinking-Game. by dengre.bj, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8035/7896332128_c7a503bfae.jpg” width=”365″ height=”500″ alt=”Romney-Drinking-Game.”></a> I’ve been thinking about a simple Romney Drinking game. I have it narrowed to a choice between two options. In choice A, you take a drink every time he lies. And in choice B you take a shot when he tells the truth. But there is …
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Laugh til it hurts
The post-punk David Broder (reference) thinks it’s funny when journalists try to do their job: After a morning of reading pieces about Paul Ryan’s Lies and Paul Ryan’s Distortions and Paul Ryan’s Distorted Lies, I am impressed and alarmed at the depth of scrutiny and vigorous insistence on literal truth in every phrase. I wish …