Glenn Thrush, at Politico, on “The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield’“: … Holder, who began his stormy five-plus-year tenure at the Justice Department with his controversial “Nation of Cowards” speech, has chosen what seems to be the ideal (and maybe the only) moment to call it quits after more than 18 months …
Late Night Fun Read: Our Guy, Barney Frank
This colorful language from @bterris's great Barney Frank in today's print WaPo is now gone from the online version. pic.twitter.com/J9H1SDzxuK — Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) September 25, 2014 Even after the bowdlerizers got there, it’s still a fun article, for those of us who remember Rep. Frank fondly: After retiring from Congress at the end of …
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Open Thread: Bring Out Your Waders, Hip Boots Won’t Be Enough
Well, Deval Patrick’s already said, thanks but no thanks. “As soon as I know what my next job is, I will tell you, I promise. But it will be in the private sector,” he said.” Paul Waldman, at the Washington Post, on “Why the fight over Eric Holder’s successor is going to be very ugly“: …
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Open Sports Thread: The NFL’s Tax Status
What?! I had no idea that the NFL enjoys a tax-exempt status.Why the NFL probably won't lose its tax-exempt status http://t.co/wRVV5K6oPe — Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 24, 2014 David Roth, SB Nation, “Meet the woman who wants to make the NFL pay its taxes“: It happens every year, briefly and usually around Super Bowl …
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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Safe Bets
In a country that allowed George W. Bush to assume office, twice, It’s impossible to be absolutely sure any given mope or miscreant won’t manage to win sufficient electoral votes or the negotiable allegiance of five Supreme Court Justices. That being said, there’s an awful lot of chaff being emitted in advance of 2016. No …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Shana Tova!
Always thought that Autumn was a better time to begin again than mid-winter… and a lot of us could use a reset button on 2014. Cheat sheet for us Gentiles here. *********** Apart from that, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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Late Night Open Thread: Conspirators
"what Wall Street sells is less like engineering than like a forecasting service for a coin-flipping contest" http://t.co/MW3Ro2VBcK — Eric Scott Hunsader (@nanexllc) September 25, 2014 Via Noah Smith, Michael Lewis on the “Occupational Hazards of Working on Wall Street“: … Technology entrepreneurship will never have the power to displace big Wall Street banks in …