Correction of the Day from the Lexington Dispatch pic.twitter.com/DnVQwq60rj (via @RL_Bynum) — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 13, 2015 No SuChang‘s for us, today — the first flakes were drifting down as we left to run errands at 2pm, and now the roads are really getting slippy. (We did score a few precious bags of ice …
Saturday Morning Cartoon Open Thread: Valentines
(Mike Baldwin via GoComics.com) . Rationalist Libertarian romance, from the horse’s… mouth. Megan McArdle, at Bloomberg View: … “I don’t want to string along for years,” I told him. “I’m not demanding a proposal or anything, but I’m just letting you know, that eventually, I’ll want to get married, or we’ll have to end it. …
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Open Thread: Cursed!
(Arlo & Janis via GoComics.com) . Friday the Thirteenth falls on a Friday this month, and Churchy LaFemme would tell you that’s the riskiest possible combination. Also, Valentine’s Day is Saturday, which means that every sit-down restaurant in North America including Bickford’s and IHoP will be jam-packed, and if your romantic-object-of-choice person is into “romance”, …
Late Night Open Thread: The DNC Picks Philadelphia
The Daily News can’t decide who’s more to blame: … A Democrat familiar with the discussions said Democratic National Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz felt “she could more easily control the convention” by awarding it to Philadelphia rather than New York, where Mayor de Blasio is trying to make a name for himself as a national …
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Open Thread: Jamelle Bouie Is A Wise Man
From his latest Slate post, “Why Jon Stewart Was Bad for the Liberals Who Loved Him“: …I grew up with The Daily Show. It hit its stride during the 2004 election—my last full year in high school—and was critical viewing when Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination and then the presidency, my last full year …
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Happy Thoughts Open Thread: The Notorious RBG
Let’s hear it for sanity, from a Bloomberg Business interview: Americans are prepared to accept a U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, pointing to what she described as a sweeping change in attitudes toward gays. In an interview Wednesday in the court’s oak-paneled east conference room, Ginsburg also said …
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Open Thread: The Best Country Money Can Buy
At the American Spectator dinner, where Rand Paul is seated at the head table next to David Koch. — daveweigel (@daveweigel) February 12, 2015 Lee Fang, at The Nation: … While all eyes were on the changing of the guard in Congress as Republicans seized control of the US Senate in January, there was an …
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