Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

In my day, never was longer.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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Because sudoku is so 2011, NYMag offers political junkies a new numbers game:

Twitter has become such an integral medium for political communication that, according to our count, 97 percent of members of Congress now have an official Twitter presence. But Twitter is a two-way street — you spread your message, and you listen to what others have to say. So who are members of the House and Senate (or, doubtless more often, their staffs) listening to on Twitter? Daily Intelligencer decided to find out: With help from the wizards at Twiangulate, we identified every congressional Twitter account, then analyzed which other accounts they follow most often. Read on for rankings of which news organizations, journalists, and other politicians members of Congress follow, and which congressmen and women have the most and least followers. The takeaway, on Twitter as in life: The two parties don’t listen to each other very much.

Topping the overall list of most followed accounts are four D.C.-based political news outlets, which, thanks to their bipartisan appeal, are followed by around 60 percent of members of congress. But taking a look at the top twenty accounts divided by party shows zero overlap beyond the Hill, Politico, Roll Call, and CSPAN: Although they like a few of the same publications, Democrats and Republicans tend to lack interest in … each other. Also of note in the party breakdown: President Obama is only the eighth most-followed account among Democrats in Congress, which seems odd. On the Republican side, John Boehner, apparently the world’s most interesting tweeter, is hogging two spots in the top ten…

Time-killing or serious, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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  1. 1.

    Belafon

    The leader of the free world, who would probably have to have all of his tweets screened first, or the third most important person in government, who might tweet while drunk? Which are you going to follow?

  4. 4.

    geg6

    I refuse to follow any of them on Twitter. In fact, I simply don’t tweet at all. I don’t understand the fascination with it. Anything you can say in only 140 characters probably isn’t important, intelligent, or interesting, IMHO. There may be a few exceptions, but I can’t really think of any.

    I’ve been very interested in the NYC mayor’s race. And it’s been a real show all summer, I must say. But I am just amazed at how the guy I would have voted for had I lived in NYC has pulled out front and seems to be on the verge of running away with it, completely avoiding a runoff if these numbers hold up:

    http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/bill-de-blasio-takes-commanding-lead-in-new?ref=fpb

  6. 6.

    catclub

    Will Roger was right. The GOP has 4 in the top 10 with over 80% of the GOP reps following them.
    The Democrats have no one followed by more than 71%.

    The line of the day is what the GOP is known for using.

  7. 7.

    xenos

    A few years ago there was an election in Belgium, and the leader of the losing side thought it would be a fine gesture to call up the leader of the winning side and offer up his congratulations. However, none of his Flemish staffers could locate the French-speaking leaders phone number, and nobody in his staff knew even a single person on the French side they could call on to find out the number. There was absolutely no social overlap between the professionals and the politicians on either side.

    I wonder if we are headed in the same direction.

  8. 8.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @geg6: I never got why this was considered new anyway. Tolstoy wrote novels with 140 characters and that was more than a hundred years ago.

  10. 10.

    lamh36

    McCain Slams Fox News: Muslims Thank Allah Like Christians Thank God (VIDEO)

    Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pushed back hard Tuesday against a Fox News host who raised concerns over a Syrian rebel’s use of a ubiquitous Islamic phrase…
    “I have a problem helping those people screaming that after a hit,” Kilmeade said.

    A clearly annoyed McCain quickly hit back.

    “You have a problem with that? Would you have a problem with an American Christian saying ‘thank God, thank God’?” McCain said. “That’s what they’re saying. Come on. Of course they’re Muslims, but they’re moderates and I guarantee you that they are moderates. I know them and I’ve been with them. For someone to say ‘Allahu Akbar’ is about as offensive as someone saying ‘thank God.'”

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6:

    In fact, I simply don’t tweet at all. I don’t understand the fascination with it

    I’m so glad it isn’t just me! I guess I’m technically on Twitter (when I was still working I had to take a social media course and part of the exercise was establishing a Twitter account) but I’ve never used it since the day I signed up, haven’t the faintest notion what my username and password are, and have zero interest in pursuing it.

  14. 14.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    @Keith P.:

    Then there’s that old woman who keeps posting selfies to Mitch McConnell’s twitter account.

    Elaine Chao?

  22. 22.

    TooManyJens

    @geg6:

    I refuse to follow any of them on Twitter. In fact, I simply don’t tweet at all. I don’t understand the fascination with it. Anything you can say in only 140 characters probably isn’t important, intelligent, or interesting, IMHO. There may be a few exceptions, but I can’t really think of any.

    I am reminded of the people who would always have to barge into a conversation about a TV show with “well, I don’t even own a television!”

  23. 23.

    Felonius Monk

    @lamh36: Brian Kilmeade — Dumb and Dumber all rolled up in a single package.

    OTOH, Gramps McCain is full of shit if he believes that the Syrian rebels are all moderates. Every time he opens his mouth he again confirms that he was almost at the bottom of his graduating class.

  24. 24.

    Schlemizel

    Finished reading the autobiography of Puke of Puke & Snot fame this weekend. Highly recommend the book BTW, its a very fast read full of great stories very well told. One anecdote he tells was tangent to my life so I dropped him a fan letter in part to tell him what his story looked like from my prospective but also to thank him for a lotta laughs. The guy wrote me back! A very gracious and funny note. It was a total surprise & made my evening.

  26. 26.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @kindness: I doubt it would last until tomorrow, but I both humbly accept the compliments and apologize to Yut…. Yatzuno? at the same time.

  28. 28.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Okay Google Voice transcription may have outdone itself this time. Just in:

    Hey ____ Good Afternoon. This is fast calling from my love. And my call is regarding____. So if you’re looking for a change on your project. I think I should to give me a call on _______. Repeat xxxxx double none. 9 cent. I have also sent you a job because I knew 0. That is a bit of tape to. I was on the black with your interest recipient, this is. I was calling from my love. Thank you and have a great day.

    Keeping in mind that this is an agent calling about consulting work.

    May be the best one ever.

  29. 29.

    ranchandsyrup

    @lamh36: I think we’re gonna see more of this in the name of the glibertarian wing of the GOPers. Even Drudge is pimping them and Grandpa Walnuts won’t waste any feint toward moderation. Fox may have to take their lumps until they decide that they want to grift a younger demographic.

  31. 31.

    PurpleGirl

    It’s after Labor Day so the Big Six Towers library reopens tonight. Evelyn and I cover the Tuesday and Thursday night hours of 6:30 to 7:30 pm. It isn’t very active but I enjoy Evelyn’s company. We’ll see how many people decide to use the library.

  32. 32.

    jl

    I only see this social media stuff when a blog like BJ or Talkingpolintsmemo, or Wonkette, kindly posts something of utmost importance or mirth for me to read.

    I don’t have twitter, and a very primitive notion of what reddit, tumblr, instagram and all these other things are. My facebook page is ludicrous fraud full of nonsense information and impossible dates that I only use when I need it to get info or tix for some event.

    I have no idea who my periodic facebook friend requests could be, or the occasional announcements that there is someone else on facebook with whom I have a lot in common, my facebook self being a male co-ed who graduated from college two years before my birth date. I guess there are a few of those out there. Who woudda thunk?

    There is somebody else with the ‘jl’ handle who does social media, but it’s not me.

    So, my agenda for the next few minutes is being glad I don’t bother with that stuff. Or blogs where you need to register, show your longform passport, and have yet another pw to comment.

  33. 33.

    Schlemizel

    @TooManyJens:

    So McCain thinks Al Qaeda is more moderate than Hezbollah . . . interesting. There are no good guys in the Syrian fight sadly, only bad guys and the poor saps stuck in the middle. I have reluctantly come to believe we have to respond to the use of chemical weapons but we really have to stay out of this as there is no winning.

    I do wish all these skeptical, sensitive, souls in Congress had been nearly as concerned about starting something back in 2003 when it might have helped.

    BTW – I had a thought about the damage the dear old 27% do to America, Hearing that Americans are against doing anything about Syria 43 to 28 it occurred to me that 27% of the respondents would switch sides if only a real American were in the WHite House. The numbers would be 55 for and 16 against.

  36. 36.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @SiubhanDuinne: I may have to frame that.

    @kc: Sobered up. Realized what a complete lunatic asylum it is here.

    I’m guessing, but it’s an educated guess.

    He’ll be back. The staying away, that’s just the sobriety talking.

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh36: I’m quite enjoying the idea of a Tourette’s-like affliction that causes occasional outbreaks of niceness and civility.

  41. 41.

    catclub

    @Schlemizel: “So McCain thinks Al Qaeda is more moderate than Hezbollah”

    My guess is he pretends the guys in the picture are not AQ. He just knows they are moderates who would come around if you got them in a room and told them to cut the bullshit.

  42. 42.

    CVS

    So who are members of the House and Senate (or, doubtless more often, their staffs) listening to on Twitter?

    And the obvious answer is…no one. The only people they listen to are the ones with the $$$.

  45. 45.

    jl

    Just to be clear, I have no problem with all those social media thingees. Just too damn many off them for a simpler person like me to keep track off.

  46. 46.

    Origuy

    @Schlemizel: I may have to get that book. I’ve only seen them once, at Colorado, because they don’t seem to tour California. I’ve been a Ren Faire junkie from way back, so it would be interesting to hear about life backstage.

  47. 47.

    Schlemizel

    @catclub:

    I’d be happy to drop $20 into the hat & start a collection to put him in a room with those boys so he could see if we could work something out.

  48. 48.

    lamh36

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Well damn here’s some more Tourette’s ticks from McCain. Seems McCain was sorta on a roll this morning, this also happened on the same Fox & Friends interview:

    McCain laughs as he mocks Laura Ingraham’s ‘vast knowledge of military tactics’

    “She feels as though you’re bailing him out of a misguided, confused policy,” co-host Brian Kilmeade noted. “Now when you come out to the microphones and say, ‘Hey, we got to support this,’ that people can’t understand where that came from.’”

    “First of all, I didn’t say, ‘Hey, we got to support this,’” McCain replied. “Second of all, I was encouraged when the president commits to increasing our support for the Free Syrian Army, for providing them with weapons that they need to combat Bashar al-Assad, and to degrade the capabilities of the Syrians to deliver these chemical weapons and other weapons.”

    “So, I just beg to differ, I’m sure that with her vast knowledge of military tactics and strategy, she knows better than me,” the Arizona senator added, cracking himself up with remark.

  49. 49.

    Liquid

    Listening to Al Jazeera – Syria strike hearings. You should hear this crap. There are no words for Rand Paul. None.

    “Equally likely to either do it again or not do it.” <- Jesus…

  50. 50.

    catclub

    I think it was Political Animal that noted a huge gender gap in opinions on bombing Syria. Much less popular among women than men. Hoocoodanode!

  51. 51.

    srv

    Twitter is the new Facebook.

    I searched, but Darth Kerry does not have a snapchat account yet. That’s a really good thing.

  53. 53.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    @lamh36:

    “So, I just beg to differ, I’m sure that with her vast knowledge of military tactics and strategy, she knows better than me,” the Arizona senator added, cracking himself up with remark.

    It’s true Laura Ingraham didn’t crash six planes and get herself captured by the enemy for five and a half years. But how does this make McCain an expert on military tactics and strategy?

  54. 54.

    geg6

    @TooManyJens:

    I guess my point was too cryptic. The point was that it makes sense to me that the GOP loves stupid shit like Twitter because they’re stupid and it’s stupid. But if you like Twitter, more power to you. I’m just not interested in it. I like other social media but I can’t figure what the fascination with tweeting is.

  57. 57.

    Jeremy

    There are some moderate forces in Syria. The problem is that they are not the dominant force, so what we have here are various warring factions with few good choices.

  60. 60.

    geg6

    @ruemara:

    That’s what a phone call to my congresscritters does, too. And I get to speak in full paragraphs and actually explain my position and argue it.

  64. 64.

    Jeremy

    And I find the attacks on Sec. Kerry over the top. The guy appears to be very concerned about this situation, but he only wants a limited response to chemical weapons being used. Also I’m tired of hearing people say we are going to war. A limited air strike is not a full blown war, and we should have a debate about that.

  68. 68.

    lamh36

    Report: Hillary Clinton Backs Obama On Syria Strike

    Although she may be out of office, count former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in favor of a “targeted response” to Syria.

    An aide to the possible 2016 presidential contender told Politico Tuesday that Clinton “supports the President’s effort to enlist the Congress in pursuing a strong and targeted response to the Assad regime’s horrific use of chemical weapons.”

  72. 72.

    raven

    Anti=twits:

    if it wouldn’t be too much trouble, if you could tweet to the twits who call themselves journalists(example Chris Martins of sit-and-Spin Magazine) that I FINISHED MY SET!!! I did my job, and they should do theirs too–They all miss the fact that there is a difference between the back-of-the-room-chatter that is simply annoying,–and the operatic drunken blather, or the heckling that is really just INTERRUPTING that makes it impossible for us to do our jobs. I hope your readers are already hip to the fact that they are consistently lied to… no apologies. -Fiona Apple”

  73. 73.

    MomSense

    Yesterday an older gentleman in my neighborhood invited us in and showed us his Harvard class of ’48 yearbooks.

    In the 15th anniversary book they all wrote in updates about their lives. Robert Francis Kennedy wrote this really nice note talking about his family and running his brother’s campaign. In the 20th anniversary book, just his name was listed. In the 25th anniversary book, there was an In Memoriam entry that talked about his life, career, and family. Just seeing his name after his brothers Joseph and John with deceased after their names, was much more moving than I had expected.

    Makes you wonder how things would have been different had they lived.

  75. 75.

    lamh36

    And McCain’s back to my grumpy old man in casino list

    McCain playing po-ker on his iPhone

    …photographer Melina Mara reports she spotted Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) “passing the time by playing po-ker on his iPhone during the hearing.”

    We eagerly await the photographic proof, but generally trust Melina’s sharp eye.

    Update 5:55 p.m.: And here’s the proof:

  76. 76.

    lamh36

    And McCain’s back to my grumpy old man in casino list

    McCain playing poker on his iPhone

    @JECarter4
    Anyone recognize the app? RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: John McCain playing poker on his phone during the Syria hearing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics-live/the-senates-syria-hearing-live-updates/?id=ed01ca14-222b-4a23-b12c-c0b0d9d4fe0a …

    As the hearing continues, our ace photographer Melina Mara reports she spotted Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) “passing the time by playing poker on his iPhone during the hearing.”

    We eagerly await the photographic proof, but generally trust Melina’s sharp eye.

    Update 5:55 p.m.: And here’s the proof:

  78. 78.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @MomSense: Mark Shields was Robert’s California campaign manager. And now, he sits on TV mostly saying “I agree with David” and parroting all the Simpson-Bowles Conservatism cloaked as Centrism that we all find so endearing. John Kerry was a guiding light in the anti-war movement and fierce opponent of the Vietnam war.

    You just have to wonder what the hell happens.

  79. 79.

    lamh36

    Apparently McCain was playing po-ker during the hearing. I tried to post link, but I’m in moderation.

    so excuse the duplicate post

  80. 80.

    lamh36

    @NerdyWonka

    SMACKDOWN: Rand Paul wants war. Sec. Kerry reminds Rand there are only 3 people in the room who’ve gone to war and Paul isn’t one of them.

  84. 84.

    nellcote

    @kc:

    Whatever happened to that one dude who used to post here? What was his name . . . Cole something.

    He posts under the name “Bill and Helen” now.

  86. 86.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @lamh36:

    Not a fan of McCain, can’t stand Ingraham, but I’m still willing to give McCain the point on this one, plane crash and all, because if a Dem politician w/some military experience had said the same thing, I’ve give them credit as well.

    and Ingrahm is just some right wing media troll just looking to score points in the mean girl’s game.

  89. 89.

    BruinKid

    I know, I know, Syria, world sucks, etc. But I just passed my Ph.D. final defense and submitted my dissertation this afternoon! Woo-hoo! So… got a bachelor’s, master’s, and now a Ph.D. from UCLA. 8-) It’s been one hell of a journey to finally get to this stage.

    And now… onto the job search. Eek.

  90. 90.

    Schlemizel

    @Origuy:

    I’m lucky that way. We first saw them when they just started around 77 or 78. At the time they did their act out in the crowd as if it were just happening by accident. It was also much more heavily weighted towards Shakespearean dialog. It was hilarious though

  92. 92.

    MomSense

    @BruinKid:

    Congratulations!! Well done you! That is a huge accomplishment and reason to be very proud of yourself!!

    I hope you find fulfilling and interesting work! No “eek” just give yourself a little space to dream about what you might do next.

  93. 93.

    MikeJ

    @BruinKid: All I can think of is Jethro Bodine appearing in a commercial for the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills: “I am on my way to UCLA for to pick up my PhD.”

    Congrats.

  96. 96.

    Roger Moore

    @geg6:

    I refuse to follow any of them on Twitter. In fact, I simply don’t tweet at all. I don’t understand the fascination with it. Anything you can say in only 140 characters probably isn’t important, intelligent, or interesting, IMHO. There may be a few exceptions, but I can’t really think of any.

    My Congresswoman tweeted a link to a constituent survey about what to do in Syria, so I can tell her what I think without a lot of trouble. That’s the kind of thing twitter can be really good for.

  97. 97.

    geg6

    @BruinKid:

    Congratulations! I really admire people who go for that PhD. Mainly because I’m too lazy to do it myself. The MEd was about as much work as I’m willing to do on my education at this point in my life. Plus, it won’t earn me a penny more at my job. But I wish it would, because then I’d have the motivation to do it.

  98. 98.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    TMP had a interesting point – the vote is a sticky issue with the GOP 2016 contenders since they risk on one hand doing a Christie by voting with The One while at the same time coming out like DFH to the Neo and Defense cons if they vote no.

  99. 99.

    BruinKid

    @BillinGlendaleCA, @MomSense: Thanks! So… if anybody out there knows who’s hiring for a statistician… or as we like to call ourselves now, “data scientists”…. :-)

    The only thing is I’d like to stay in Los Angeles, because not only is my whole family here, but I also do NOT handle cold weather well. I’ll get sick when it drops to 65 degrees Fahrenheit. So that puts a crimp on certain job opportunities. Hmm… Rand Corp. has an office in Santa Monica……..

  107. 107.

    MomSense

    @BruinKid:

    Shoot, I was going to say that you should check out UNUM here in Maine because it truly is “the way life should be”. They do have offices in Chattanooga, TN which is a nice city.

  108. 108.

    IowaOldLady

    My local paper has an article titled “Confusion surrounds health care reform law.” The reporter went to the county with the highest rate of uninsured (about 18% vs 10% overall in the state). The quotes from my fellow citizens depressed me.

    44 year old woman who’s never had health insurance as an adult is unsure the law will affect her. “I feel a little strange that this is the first time we’re forced to do something by our government.”

    39 year old man who lost insurance when the meat packing plant closed and needs surgery. Re the ACA: “I’m not into voting. I’m not into that government crap.”

    55 year old woman paying $400/mo for insurance. Works several part-time jobs. “I’m afraid it’s going to jack up everybody’s prices.”

  109. 109.

    geg6

    @Roger Moore:

    I have no desire to tweet with Keith Rothfus about anything. Maybe if I had a sane rep, I’d do it. And Senator Casey’s staff are great to talk to when I call. We have actual conversations. His staff is awesome.

    I’m supporting Allyson Schwartz for governor next year and she’s been answering me (or her staff has anyway) on FB. I guess I’m just more interested in having conversations with my elected officials.

  110. 110.

    Jebediah

    @ranchandsyrup:
    My pleasure! That site (kneeslider) has lots of interesting stuff, if you’re interested in that kind of stuff) like a square-piston two-stroke engine and an axial five-cylinder engine, and they linked to this site with illustrations (some animated) of 507 mechanical movements.
    Our forebears figured out some pretty clever things to do with gears.

  112. 112.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader:

    Curse you, Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader. This is at least the third time today I’ve thought of something really clever/apt/incisive to post, and damned if you haven’t snuck in there first each time with the EXACT SAME THOUGHT and sometimes the EXACT SAME WORDS. I’ve had it with you, Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader.

  118. 118.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @BruinKid: Yay!! What great news!! Big congratulations, and a celebratory {{{hug}}} to you. Good luck with the job hunt. Do you mind saying what your field is/what kind of job you’re seeking?

  120. 120.

    joes527

    @Jeremy:

    The guy appears to be very concerned about this situation

    When asked what happens if out actions make things worse in Syria, Kerry responded that all options would be on the table, then realizing how that sounded, walked it back, saying that he was just thinking out loud.

    The dude didn’t even prepare for the question: “What if it doesn’t go as planned?” before meeting with the Foreign Relations Committee.

    sounds Very Concerned to me.

  121. 121.

    Yatsuno

    @BruinKid: To start a rumour, I MIGHT be down in LA for a fraternity function in March. But I’m not sure yet. Will depend on a lot of factors, some of which get settled tomorrow. Hopefully.

  123. 123.

    Kay

    @geg6:

    Twitter is a lot of fun to follow during an actual event, just as a lurker. I followed the Texas women the night of the filibuster and the Fight for Fifteen people during their strike. The Fight for Fifteen was particularly good because they were all over the country and they were posting their own pictures. It’s fun to listen to the people who are there and look at the pix. It flies.

  124. 124.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Yatsuno: IF so, when you show up we’ll all say: YAHTZEE!!!

    ETA: Since my geriatric car now moves when I tell it to, I may be able to show; even if the venue is not in walking distance.

  126. 126.

    Ted & Hellen

    Oh well, at least the Leader’s war-based schlong-waving has kept the NSA leaks off the front pages for a few days.

    And it IS September, which is when U.S. regimes introduce new products.

  127. 127.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: Yup, “If he loses this vote, it’s like a vote of no confidence, it’s over for him, it’s like a 3rd election…”. Tweety needs to switch to decaf.

  129. 129.

    jamick6000

    TV Ratings: Five Months In, MNSBC’s Chris Hayes Hits New Highs

    As MSNBC continues to tinker with its evening lineup, there is good news for Chris Hayes. The host’s five-month-old nightly broadcast, which didn’t exactly leap out of the gate, hit ratings highs last week.

    Nielsen returns have All In With Chris Hayes posting its best averages yet among total viewers and adults 25-54 — excluding the breaking news boost from the Boston Marathon bombings (April 15). For the week of Aug. 26, and compared to the week prior, Hayes was up 71 percent to 224,000 viewers in the cable news network’s targeted demographic and up 47 percent among total viewers with a nightly average of 772,000.

    The 8 p.m. show outperformed CNN competition in Anderson Cooper 360 (577,000 viewers, 170 adults 25-54) on all five nights

    hmmm I seem to remember a vocal segment of people here predicting doom. look like they were probably wrong (what else is new).

  130. 130.

    Yatsuno

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Well Psi is quite the young’un, so I consider that possible.

    It will be in the vicinity of Westwood. But I might crash at a friend’s house, and she lives in Torrance.

  134. 134.

    Chyron HR

    @jamick6000:

    But the last I heard, Dear Leader Greenwald had commanded us to hate MSNBC because it’s the Obama administration’s propaganda ministry. Did I miss a blast-fax?

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