Alice Ollstein is live tweeting the Senate gun safety hearings, and in this ever-changing world, it’s nice to see that Wayne LaPierre remains a solid touchstone of gun insanity.
Archives for January 2013
The Seniors’ Network
Fox ratings are down across the board in the key 25-54 demographic: Fox News was down -6% in total viewers and -22% in the key adults 25-54 demo in total day in January, the lowest demo numbers since July 2008. In primetime, the network was down -17% in total viewers and -40% in the demo, …
Always Scandalized, Rarely Scandalous
It’s always interesting when the mainstream press has to acknowledge the existence of porn or even sex on the Internet. There have been a couple of instances this week, and you don’t need to be a deviated prevert organizing a mutiny of preverts to appreciate the stupidity of a lot of it. Let’s start with …
Open Thread: Mazel Tov, Gomer Pyle!
There’s a ‘semper fi’ joke here somewhere. From the Washington Post: HONOLULU — The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years. Hawaii News Now (http://bit.ly/14tFM3U) reports Jim Nabors and his partner, Stan Cadwallader, traveled from their Honolulu home to Seattle to …
On England’s Pleasant Pastures…open thread
Sometimes the internet is a swamp in which time — hell, vast swaths of life — get sucked into oblivion. Sometimes the ‘tubes are merely a crush of blinkered Philistine pig-ignorance. I suppose that for some life online is just one long “kidz theze dayz” lament… And then one comes across something like this: …
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Site Rebuild Open Thread
Several of you have asked for the email address for the suggestions for the site rebuild, so here it is again: [email protected] The rebuild will not happen until the second week of February, but we will start the fundraiser tonight and end it as soon as possible. To donate to the rebuild, click here: As …
Have some courtesy, have some sympathy and some taste
Erick Erickson has a thoughtful piece on his time at CNN (via Jim Newell): I’ve learned that some of the people I grew up thinking were in the enemy’s camp, so to speak, are spectacular people who share many of the same interests and opinions I do. [….] I learned that I will never be …
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