Via @sahilkapur, Steve King brought strong #hottake game to South Carolina http://t.co/TvaqXA9U5b pic.twitter.com/pz74KgyAfT — daveweigel (@daveweigel) May 9, 2015 I understand there are good people in Iowa, but none of them seem to be caucusing with the GOP. Jim Newell, at Salon, made me happy by reporting that Jeb (or his handlers) decided to snoot …
Friday Recipe Exchange: Breakfast in Bed
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: I thought Mother’s Day weekend would be a good time to visit some breakfast recipes. I love French Toast – deliciously captured in still life above by JeffreyW – second only to German pancakes, with Walnut Syrup (recipes here). So perfect French Toast is tonight’s featured recipe. If pancakes are …
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Friday Morning Open Thread: Fairy Tales Can Come True…
(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) . Or: What if they announced a horse race & nobody came? Dylan Byers, Politico‘s most gullible staffer, prayerfully calls upon the mighty powers of social media: Let’s be honest with ourselves for a second: This is Hillary Clinton’s election to lose. On Nov. 8, 2016, Clinton will start — start …
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Open Thread: Living in a Trollope Novel
This explains so much about British politics: http://t.co/xhNmeENsoS pic.twitter.com/HwlCkI27L9 — Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) May 6, 2015 Doesn’t sound like the current candidates could manage the Machiavellian grandeur of Phineas Finn, so it’s probably just The Way We Live Now…
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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Monetizing the Klown Show
(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) . John Cassidy, economics reporter for the New Yorker: … Nobody should be expected, or forced, to keep up with every detail of the G.O.P. primary, especially when, Lord help us, we still have more than eight months to go until the Iowa caucuses. At this stage, the important thing to …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Brief Sanity Break
From multitalented commentor Werebear: My garden, this year. I invested in this giant bucket of pansies as that is what my money and energy amounts to these days. But it will happily weather a frost should it come and can sit outside my window at work and come home with me on weekends. Anyone can …
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Short Notice Seattle Meet-Up?
Email from blog favorite commentor Yatsuno / Yutsano: So my schedule got compressed because of circumstance and I’ll now be in Seattle this weekend from the 7th through the 10th… I know this is VERY last minute but if anyone wants to meet up for dinner (Looking at you CaseyL!) that would be great! I’m …