Jeb Lund, at Rolling Stone, on “a crossfire with 100% casualties“: … [Wolf] Blitzer is a man of breathtaking stupidity… His service seems to be offering permanent credulity to power and permanent skepticism to its challengers. He can be induced to parrot talking points by even junior-varsity hacks… If he could reanimate the corpse of …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Assisting Nepal
(Nick Anderson via GoComics.com) . Recent updates from the area, via the Boston Globe: Nepalese villagers struggle home amid chaos Doctor near Mount Everest offers insight on Nepal quake I do not underestimate the power of prayer, but I’m from the theological school that says faith without works is a meagre faith indeed. I asked …
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Late Night Open Thread: Ripples in the Baltimore Stream
Yep, pure self-indulgence, because you’ve all gone to bed anyways. Young people link arms, form a line and push crowd back from officers. "We're not doing all that nonsense tonight" pic.twitter.com/Qet9rwDBKR — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) April 29, 2015 The Guardian‘s liveblog is here. Washington Post‘s is here. "Well, normally I cover millionaire congressmen calling for …
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The Situation in Nepal
(Matt Davies via GoComics.com) . Now that the Everest-climbing survivors and the surrogate babies have been safely evacuated, does anyone have advice on targeting donations? Nepal’s utter inability to effectively respond to the catastrophic earthquake that rattled the small Himalayan nation on April 25 can be perhaps best explained by the fact that its army …
Open Thread: The Real Criminals
#BREAKING Photo: Looters steal billions of dollars, destroy businesses, leave thousands homeless: #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/O7ogrFptng — Rs = 2GM/c^2 (@AnarchoPhysics) April 28, 2015 Via commentor Nominus, to whom many thanks.
Open Thread: #NerdpromHackprom Last Words
Let’s all plunge ourselves face first into the toilet and put our hands together for “Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell Present: John Pierpont Morgan’s Nite of Laffs 2015.” — Jeb Lund, liveblogging for the Guardian Now that all the frantic primping and lavish self-congratulation is over, here’s Jay Rosen “On the deep grammar …
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Early Morning Open Thread: ICYMI
Here's Baltimore native @tanehisicoates on today's events http://t.co/wIVLglZVuk pic.twitter.com/JsMSCUHRRj — Adam Serwer (@AdamSerwer) April 28, 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Nonviolence As Compliance“: Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but …