(Signe Wilkinson via GoComics.com — click link for full-sized image) Harold Meyerson, at the Washington Post, on “Wal-Mart’s strategy of deniability“: … Over the weekend, a horrific fire swept through a Bangladesh clothing factory, killing more than 100 workers, many of whose bodies were burnt so badly that they could not be identified. In its …
Archives for November 2012
Open Thread: Always Another Dung Beetle
The ancient Egptians, we’re told, imagined the sun as a giant ball of dung hoisted by industrious beetles from one horizon to the other. The GOP has its own brand of sacred scarabs, thick on the ground wherever there’s a supply of manure to be mined. If one dung beetle brave warrior for truth, justice …
The Fundamental Problem
Earlier today, Doug Mataconis tweeted: This is the fundamental problem we have right now (and this is not a let’s all trash Doug Mataconis post). The problem we have with our media and those who follow our so very messed up political discourse is that all too often, we spend valuable time debating and discussing …
The Meningitis Outbreak & Our Era of Unintended Consequences
The New England Compounding Center is based here in New England, so local news media has been providing a steady drip of coverage, from a number of angles. But the NYTimes has a baseline summary: RANDALL KINNARD’S legal clients had steroids injected into their backs last summer for a wide range of reasons. Of the …
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Open Thread: Facts Are Stupid Stubborn Things…
In today’s installment of ‘Math Republicans Do to Feel Better About Themselves’, ThinkProgress reports: Virginia Attorney General Suggests Obama Stole The Election Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli ( R ) told a radio host he completely agreed with her assertion that investigations are needed to determine why President Obama lost “every one” of the states …
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The friend of my friend … isn’t so sure anymore
At the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Australia will abstain from a vote on a resolution to give Palestine observer status at the UN. [Prime Minister] Ms Gillard had wanted Australia to join the United States, Israel, Canada and a handful of smaller nations in voting no but faced stiff resistance led by the …
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Someone Had a Book To Sell
Again, not at all surprising: In his much-discussed mea culpa about the reality-denialism of movement conservatism, Bruce Bartlett made a striking claim: He wrote that he was not allowed on Fox News — where he had previously been a regular guest — to discuss a book he’d just published that was highly critical of George …