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More information here. Via NYMag, which is duly NYawker-sceptical.
Apart from cleaning out our cabinets searching for donations, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.
Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.
Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!
The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.
If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!
The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.
Second rate reporter says what?
Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.
We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.
Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
A fool as well as an oath-breaker.
It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.
That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.
President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.
Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.
Let me file that under fuck it.
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
You cannot shame the shameless.
This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
Corner Stone
I plan to redistribute some sushi into my belly.
gogol's wife
How To Marry a Millionaire on TCM. Not intended as a campaign reference.
Suffern ACE
I need to plan a trip to the philippines. Cause I promised I would go and didn’t think my partner “this year” when I said so.
TooManyJens
Has anyone tried the new Podcasts app for the iPhone with a car stereo? Apparently iOS6 forces podcasts into that and out of the main Music app. I’ve heard that the ability to control Podcasts with a car stereo is … limited. I’m not upgrading if it’s too fucked up, since 99.9% of what I listen to is podcasts.
Brachiator
New Randy Newman Song “I’m Dreaming” Available for Free Download at the Nonesuch site
And the new Hobbitses trailer looks pretty cool
As for plans, gotta work late, so looking forward to a quiet evening, looking forward to the next round of Mittens gaffes.
Sparrowgal
Well, we New Yawkers have to keep up our hardbitten, cynical, snide image! Don’t want to let the country down by being a bunch ‘a softies. I for one will probably do both a garage sale and put some things on Ebay that I was thinking of listing anyway. I’ve thrown as much Obama’s/Warren’s way as I can, but unemployment can blunt the edge of one’s generous impulse, sad to say.
Joel
I love Nate Silver:
Earlier today, he mentions that Obama’s bounce has eroded, pointing to a series of contradictory polls (two that look great for Obama, two that have him leading but more marginally).
Instead of just leaving it there, he goes back to work and figures out why the polls are contradictory. As many might suspect – the cellphone effect – but he does this rigorously and not speculatively.
Why cant other journalists do that kind of work? I know, SATSQ.
Joel
I love Nate Silver:
Earlier today, he mentions that Obama’s bounce has eroded, pointing to a series of contradictory polls (two that look great for Obama, two that have him leading but more marginally).
Instead of just leaving it there, he goes back to work and figures out why the polls are contradictory. As many might suspect – the cellphone effect – but he does this rigorously and not speculatively.
Why cant other journalists do that kind of work? I know, SATSQ.
Mnemosyne
I’m still waiting around for my “Fired Up Ready to Go” t-shirt to arrive. I’m assuming they have a big backlog to get through since I ordered it the morning of the president’s speech.
jwb
@TooManyJens: I rarely upgrade until things stop working or I can talk to someone I trust who can assure me that the upgrade won’t break things. I’m always worried about upgrades destroying workflow.
jwb
@Joel: I was happy to see this as well. He’s not been doing it as much since he moved to the Times, often preferring to leave it at concern trolling the polling results instead.
aimai
I did this during the last election. It was totally my own idea, actually. We called it “Something Old for Something New” and we asked people to come and donate (I think it was 25 dollars or something catchy and easy) and bring something good they wanted to get rid of. We gave everyone a number as they came through the door and they picked their choice object in the order of their arrival after everyone had come. People could donate what they wanted directly at the site so Ididn’t have to collect the money or anything though I think we did have an Obama organizer show up to collect checks if there were any. It was super cool and really fun.
aimai
Patricia Kayden
Miners forced to attend Romney rally and docked pay.
chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-romney-ad-miners-rally-20120919,0,6066201.story
Omnes Omnibus
@gogol’s wife: Damn it. I have a meeting.
ruemara
I’ll be happy to sell some jewelry or my collection of rare toys and split the proceeds with ActBlue. Love the O-man, but my kitties need supplies and the downticket needs some help.
The Bearded Blogger
@ruemara: Agree. At this point and with Mitt imploding (he has at least a couple more fuck ups in him till november), I think there’s more bang for your buck if you put your money towards downticket races… The thought of speaker Pelosi gives me a Boehner
PsiFighter37
@Joel: Finally, a good explanation. The trending on the 538 forecast was a bit puzzling.
That said, today has been an awesome polling day. To recap:
WI +6 (NYT/CBS)
WI +14 (Marquette)
VA +4 (NYT/CBS)
VA +7 (Fox News)
CO +1 (NYT/CBS)
MI +8 (CNN/ORC)
FL +5 (Fox News)
OH +7 (Fox News)
National +8 (Pew)
All LV voters. And yes, that is Faux News showing Obama with leads in line with where we have seen other state polling. I guess even Rupert knows which way the polls are going.
I wonder if our newly-found troll from last night is going to show up and whine about how awesome Rasmussen is again.
TooManyJens
@jwb:
God, same here. I swear, software developers are like those people who came up with the brilliant idea to move everything around in the grocery store once in a while so people will have to go down all the aisles instead of going directly to where they know things are.
bemused
Anyone see Chris Matthews sing “I Wish I Was A Rich Man” at the start of one of his shows this week? I was looking up the video and it seems all the links first couple of pages are from rightwing sites. I didn’t bother to read any of them but they seemed to take as an insult to Mitt. Duh.
beltane
@PsiFighter37: Maybe he’ll show up spamming that same old Halperin tweet from yesterday. I hope he is getting paid good money for his trolling because the predicament he’s in is not a pretty one.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
@PsiFighter37: Yeah, early this morning it was all “OBAMAS BOUNCE FADES”, then an hour later “OBAMA KICKING WILLARDS ASS”. The WI number is especially sweet, a couple of polls even showing Tammy Baldwin has pulled even from ten points down.
bemused Says:
Anyone see Chris Matthews sing “I Wish I Was A Rich Man” at the start of one of his shows this week?
I heard in in the car, it was hilarious. He was selling it.
replicnt6
@TooManyJens: Don’t blame us! It’s the marketeers and product managers who make us do it. We’d be happy to leave well enough alone and catch up on Balloon Juice.
PsiFighter37
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker: I do wonder about that Marquette poll as it has Baldwin up 9(!) points.
I have to say, if Democrats can get Warren, Baldwin, Chris Murphy, and a few others in the Senate, we’re going to start having a really solid block of progressives in the Senate, especially when you consider we’ll also be dumping turds like Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson from the caucus (note I said caucus, well aware Joementum isn’t a Democrat).
I thought this year was going to be a bloodbath, but I think there’s a slim chance we could end up coming out of this election even or better in the Senate.
replicnt6
@TooManyJens: Also, too, the supermarket fckers mean for you to have to walk all over the store. They do that in the hope that you’ll buy more shit that you don’t really need when it catches your eye.
TooManyJens
@replicnt6: Oh, I know they do. The motivations for constantly twiddling software are different (“we have to keep up with design trends!” “we know what your workflow should be better than you do!” and whatnot) but the end result for me is the same — I now have to struggle to do something I could do without thinking about it before.
Point taken about aiming my ire at the right targets, though. ::glares at marketeers and product managers in Cupertino::
Speaking of design trends, whoever made monochrome icons trendy can kiss my ass.
anibundel
I suppose I should do something besides play on the internet and feed the cats, huh?
MikeJ
@TooManyJens:
It ain’t the devs that do it. Ok, sometimes it is, but much more often it’s the marketing people
TooManyJens
@anibundel:
burnspbesq
Thanks and Godspeed to Pia Sundhage, whose final match as head coach of the US women’s national soccer team is tonight. Two Olympic championships and second at the World Cup in five years ain’t half bad. She’ll be missed.
TooManyJens
@anibundel: I don’t know, sounds pretty good to me.
22over7
@anibundel:
I’m thinking, and I can’t think of a thing. It’s what I’m doing. Oh, I did clean the kitchen, so that’s something.
burnspbesq
@jwb:
FWIW, I upgraded my iPad, and I haven’t noticed anything amiss. Yet.
? Martin
@TooManyJens:
I don’t know about the podcast app, but iOS 6 makes it easier to run things like Siri for turn by turn through bluetooth the radio. I’d think they’d have that in the podcast apps to – that’s a really common use case.
They’re divesting all of this stuff from Music because they’re trying to unfuckup iTunes. Finally.
? Martin
@burnspbesq: I did my iPhone 4S earlier. Everything is working great. We’ll see how all of the other doodads do (we have too many and a new iPhone 5 coming friday for the wife on her bday)
With 10.8.2 and all of the related updates, and the Retina Office update, I’m going to be doing this all night.
burnspbesq
@? Martin:
They did a nice job of making the Facebook integration not be right up in the faces of us Facebook-haters. I can pretty much ignore it.
MikeJ
@? Martin:
I find this hard to believe. I’m sure there are individuals inside Apple that know what a disaster it is, I just never thought there would be any corporate will to make it less bad when every step they’ve ever taken makes it worse.
trollhattan
@? Martin:
How will I rocognize this Brave New Era? Will I be frightened? iTunes and iFuckeduppedness are cojoined twins, they’ve always traveled together.
burnspbesq
@? Martin:
I’m holding off on upgrading to iPhone 5, I think. I’m not eligible for the subsidized price from AT&T, and the lack of analog audio out via the Lightning port is potentially a major “fuck you” to the audiophile world.
That said, I’m not guaranteeing that if you drive by the Wal-Mart on North Tustin Avenue at 5:30 Friday morning you won’t see me standing outside the door (no way I’m going anywhere near SCP or Fascist Island).
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
Still utterly baffled by instability in the polls.
But I’ll take it.
Anne (or anybody, really, but Anne’s the one who changed my mind on Warren some months ago): The first Scott/Warren debate is tomorrow at 7pm. With the polls as they are, it should be… interesting.
Do you think there’d be enough interest here for it to be worth a live blog thread on BJ? Or too local?
? Martin
@burnspbesq: Yeah. I don’t use Facebook either. I didn’t even remember they added it – didn’t notice it at all.
? Martin
@MikeJ: I should clarify. There are two orthogonal degrees of fuckupedness:
1) The everything but the kitchen sink nature of iTunes owing to it becoming the sole sync conduit for iOS.
2) It’s shit performance on Windows.
1) is being worked on. They’re stripping out a lot of the sync stuff and putting it in iCloud/dedicated apps. iTunes should return to being a music oriented app. It might suck – but it won’t suck because it’s hauling around an interface to add PDFs to your phone.
2) probably won’t change.
PsiFighter37
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God: I hope Warren has been practicing. Say what you will about Brown, but getting elected statewide as a Republican means you have to have some political chops (as well a little luck in who you draw as your opponent).
That said, I think if Obama keeps crushing Romney on the campaign trail, we’ll keep getting more Democrats to come home.
The Other Chuck
I’ve never been more glad to run Android. Don’t like a built-in app? Disable and replace it. Now if VZW would only friggin upgrade my S3 to Jellybean sometime before Keylime comes out …
NotMax
@Suffern ACE
If someone offers you balut, find a polite way to decline.
raven
@TooManyJens: I just installed the Podcast and iTunes U Apps. I’m not sure what your concern is about the radio. They play fine through the speaker and headphone jack.
Joel
@MikeJ: Itunes has become unusable for me. I now use mediamonkey to move my audio.
Joel
@MikeJ: Itunes has become unusable for me. I now use mediamonkey to move my audio.
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (formerly Horrendo Slapp, Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
I’m wondering if anybody ever clicks on those weird ads you see on the page here and on other sites. There’s one on the front page with a picture of a bunch of people’s hands holding a woman’s head, and the wording is something like “Learn a foreign language in only 10 days with this new method!” All I can ask myself is, “How would having a bunch of people grab my head help me learn to speak Kurdish?” And then I don’t click on it. Who buys this stuff?
? Martin
@burnspbesq:
Got the wife a 4 2 years ago. It also subbed for her recently dead camera at the time. She’s never liked the camera on the 4 – it’s just too slow for her. And she wanted white, but it was delayed until the next year due to production issues. The boy needs a phone now, so he’ll get the old one, she’ll get her white with nice camera one – and she’ll appreciate the turn by turn.
Not sure why the analogue out is an issue. The DAC in the phone isn’t great. Wouldn’t it be better to take the digital out through something where you could choose the DAC?
burnspbesq
@? Martin:
iTunes sounding like crap in a Windows environment has more to do with Windows that it does with iTunes. I’ve tried to read threads about ASIO, WASAPI, and FSM knows what other workarounds on Head-Fi and Computer Audiophile, and it just makes my eyes bleed.
PeakVT
@? Martin: I suppose I’m being insufficiently cynical, but it baffles me that Apple won’t at least the fix the massive memory leak/cleanup issue that has been present in iTunes for the past year or so.
JPL
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God: MA needs a democratic Senator. Brown tries to say he is moderate but he caucuses with the Republicans, he filibusters votes and he supports Romney.
He doesn’t sound like an independent to me.
quannlace
Even with the cooler weather, if I’m not in direct sunlight out in the garden, the mosquito’s are relentless. Found an old can of OFF repellent. When I came back inside, was reminded how much that stuff just reeks. Washed once, but looks like I’ll have to do some heavier scrubbing to get it off my skin.
And then I’m going to watch an old repeat of ‘All Creatures Great And Small.” Yay.
? Martin
@PeakVT: iTunes is basically being tossed and replaced with a completely new app. The memory leads have been persistent for years. They’ll fix them a bit and then they’ll come back. The codebase is ancient, predates OS X, wasn’t even written by them. It’s a mess.
Nethead Jay
Hahahahaha, yet another instance of Repub foot-in-mouth disease: Sponsor Of Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Defends Romney, Says ‘Lazy’ People Also Shouldn’t Vote
Maude
I went to an outlet center to get a casserole pot for use in the oven I first went to Le C whatever it is. The woman rang up a 2 quart pot. It was $105. And that’s at 40% off. I didn’t buy it.
I went to another place and bought a 1.5 quart and 2 quart pot made of pottery. I paid $23 and change. the pots are great.
22over7
If anyone remembers, I asked the commentariat whether I should buy an ipad. (The response was an overwhelming, “Well, my wife has one and she loves it!”)
I’ve decided against it. Instead I’m buying a trackpad to replace the mouse on my desktop, which I suspect of making my whole arm hurt, and then buying an iphone 4s, which I hope goes on sale in a couple of weeks.
I figure the iphone will get me basic internet and apps, as well as telephonic ability (it has that, right?), and see whether I want an ipad next year.
lamh35
Dang… Whoopi Goldberg going in on Mittens on her twitter feed. Barbara WaWa gonna be mad at her.
Whoopi Goldberg Smacks Down Mitt Romney
burnspbesq
@? Martin:
In theory, yes, but as of now there are only two DACs that are “made for iPhone” certified, and nobody has any clue as to whether the DAC that is going to be built into the Lightning-to-30-pin adaptor is going to be any good. There’s a 15-page thread on this topic at Head-Fi.
The DAC in the iPhone isn’t horrible; it’s a perfectly respectable Cirrus Logic 43xx. The problem is that the conversion chip is only the beginning of the story; the downstream analog implementation is critical to SQ.
So far, Audioquest is saying for public consumption that the change from 30-pin to Lightning isn’t going to delay the release of the Hummingbird (the iOS variant of the Dragonfly). I’ll believe it when I have one in my hot little hands.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
@lamh35: I heard he mentioned Whoopi and her colleagues in the Corn tapes
Dude, Letterman hates you for the same reason(s) most of us do: You’re a nasty, weaselly asshole. Most of Letterman’s guests go on Leno.
Comrade Mary
@NotMax: I have the BEST EVER balut story right here (YouTube link).
ruemara
@anibundel: No.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@PsiFighter37:
I watched his debates with Coakley. I barely remember them, they were that exciting.
So I have no idea what will happen tomorrow.
SiubhanDuinne
@bemused:
I saw it. As a singer, Tweety is a terrific TV host and should not quit his day job.
Patricia Kayden
@lamh35: Such a sharp tongued woman.
Liberty60
I found this article which stated something I have been saying for a while, namely that contemporary conservatives have become like the Marxists in that they have become ideologically pure;
In this case, however, it is Capitalism and The Market that is the Grand Unified Theory of Everything, which would solve all our problems if only it were allowed to work unmolested.
SiubhanDuinne
@quannlace:
Well, it sounds like you’ve already dealt with the Creatures Small for today :-)
Anne Laurie
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:
I may have to put up a livestream link and run. But if I can’t watch it immediately, I hope they’ll have the video posted later in the evening, because I do want to watch it — despite the way that smarmy little Repub plant Jon Keller makes we want to smack the smug out of him (and then bury the remnants in a matchbox).
TooManyJens
@raven: I was worried about whether I would be able to use the car stereo controls to pause, fast forward, etc. A friend of mine told me tonight that it works fine, though. Guess I’ll go for the upgrade.
JoyfulA
@replicnt6: But after a supermarket reconfiguration, I always buy less, because there are so many items I can’t find!
Steeplejack
@gogol’s wife:
I’m conserving DVR space for Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica tomorrow: Two Women (1960) at 7:15 a.m. EDT (Loren won the Best Actress Oscar) and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) at 10:30 a.m. EDT (Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film).
NotMax
@Steeplejack
One also showing which I’ve never seen and am looking forward to viewing.
Ghosts – Italian Style (6:15 p.m. Eastern time)
Although supposedly mediocre fare, Loren is still Loren, and that’s enough to merit a peek.
Starlit
@PsiFighter37: I decided to go see what Red State was talking about and found this amusing, interesting, and a little saddening:
“Well, it is know that the Democrats are having a hard time matching the intensity and the enthusiasm of the GOP to vote this election. Not only that, but enthusiasm among youth and Hispanic voters is down by as much as 20 points compared to other bellweather demographic groups. On top of that, Obama’s support among whites is down to 39% on average which is very, very perilous. So what happens when a pollster tries to be realistic? They get attacked as being biased or worse…”
Yes, we can demonstrably see that when a pollster tries to be realistic, the Noise Machine goes into overdrive with “unattributed details”–otherwise known as wishful thinking.