Another cold, blustery night with mild snow showers. I was supposed to go to a Mardi Gras party tonight down the street, but I spent the better part of the afternoon trying to think up excuses to skip it, and just decided I wasn’t going, period. If anyone wants to bitch at me, I will …
Archives for February 2013
Open Thread: PUPPIES! (Sports edition)
Superbowl chat for the rest of us. Andrew Marantz, at the New Yorker (h/t commentor Mnemosyne): Each year, executives at every television network except one face the same dilemma: what to air during the Super Bowl? Before 2005, Animal Planet usually punted, airing nature documentaries that no one was expected to watch. But Melinda Toporoff, …
Conversations On Race…
As I’ve said before we don’t broadcast regularly on Friday & Saturdays but I wanted to take this time to introduce you folks to a project that I’ve been working on that’s pretty close to my heart. I recently launched a series entitled “On Blackness.” The idea was simply to have the conversation about race …
What I got will knock your pride aside
I’ve never thought that there was much chance the NRA would implode as a successful lobbying organization, but this enemies’ list has me wondering. The act of compiling enemies’ lists always strikes me as shameless and pathetic, the last gasp of a weakening, paranoid force, and this list is unusually extensive: [T]he NRA published an …
Hagel
James Fallows is digging deep on the Hagel hearings, trying to figure out why Hagel did kind of a crap job. I have to say I’m not surprised because Hagel has always seemed, for want of a better word, dumb. By “dumb” I guess I mean mainly “inarticulate”, but it goes farther than just being …
Your 80’s: The Decade of Intractable Stubbornness
If, as was established in the Tao of Steve, the worst kind of fatist is a fat fatist, then by extension I’m the worst kind of ageist, an old one. My shameful ageist rant is buried after the break for those of you who are easily offended.
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Early Morning Open Thread: Happy Candlemas
. . Also known as Imbolc, the cross-quarter day balanced between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Or St. Bridget’s Day, or the Festival of the Purification, or Groundhog Day. And long before groundhogs, this bit of folk legend: If Candlemas be bright and clear, There’ll be two winters in the year; If Candlemas …
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