I was watching the Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, and he had a panel discussion with Krystal Ball, the most awesomely awesome Joy Reid, and Steve Kornacki, and they seemed to all agree that it would be improper for the Obama campaign to mention this: The group consensus seemed to coalesce around the notion that …
Archives for October 2012
Basically, the Perfect Metaphor for the Last Few Decades
For those of you living in a cave or in one of the areas hit by power outages, the media has continued to run footage of the broken many ton crane dangling from the top of luxury condos in Manhattan: With one mighty gust of wind, the storm on Monday announced itself at 2:30 p.m. …
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Romney’s October Tax-Avoidance Surprise
Anybody here want to weigh in on “charitable remainder unitrusts“? From Dave Weigel, at Slate, news that (if I understand this correctly?) Romney cheats his church as much as every other entity he’s ever touched: Bloomberg obtains new information about Mitt Romney’s taxes and… well, the story comes out when everyone is distracted by imminent …
Music Question
Has there ever been any research into why we wake up with certain songs in our heads? I wake up with a different song every morning. Here was today’s: Dunno why. Haven’t played it in years.
Sandy Open Thread
For those of you wondering why these idiot reporters keep standing in horrible weather giving live reports, I can tell you why they do it. Folks like my mother. She is crazy about storm coverage. She just loves it, and will watch for hours in the hopes that one of these jackasses will get knocked …
Monday Evening Open Thread: FEMA
__ I’m assuming OfA will have posted an ad riffing off this clip by next weekend… Our twilight was enlivened by a series of Frankensteinian TZOOORP! BZZZZZZAATTT! ! ! flash-bangs as a primary overhead wire, but not our primary wire (praise Murphy the trickster god), tore loose and started a small fire further down the …
Sermons in Storms
Picking up on what Dan Satterfield wrote at the American Geophysical Union website, this is how a responsible government gets the word out: PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 241 PM EDT SUN OCT 28 2012 …AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM TO IMPACT THE AREA… SANDY IS EXPECTED TO SLAM INTO THE NEW …