(Scott Meyer’s website) . Mr. Charles P. Pierce also waxes nostalgic: … Once, as part of an NPR quiz show on which I occasionally fool around, we had John McCain on as a celebrity guest. The only question he got right was about drive-thru strippers in Germany. So this does not surprise me at all. …
Friday Recipe Exchange: Peaches & Strawberries
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: It’s that time of year again. Palisade peaches are ripe and ready to eat. This year’s crop took a hit with a late snow in the spring, but still the stores and farm stands are full of them, though probably for a shorter time than previous years. As usual, they …
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Friday Evening Open Thread: Fact-Based Evidence
Hee. Ryan Kearney at New Republic with a rebuttal of Rep. Steve King’s “drug-running illegals with calves the size of cantaloupes”: … “Lost in all the jokes about cantaloupes, though, was the real absurdity in King’s quote: that anyone could conceivably carry 75 pounds of pot. True, the weight itself is not necessarily prohibitive, though …
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Friday Morning Open Thread
(Walt Handelsman via GoComics.com) From Professor Krugman’s column to the FSM’s noodly appendages… Leading Republicans appear to be nerving themselves up for another round of attempted fiscal blackmail. With the end of the fiscal year looming, they aren’t offering the kinds of compromises that might produce a deal and avoid a government shutdown; instead, they’re …
Later Night Open Thread: In This Week’s ‘Worst Person’ Competition…
To cap the recent discussion of ‘people who should never be put in a position to abuse the authority they crave’, a snippet from NYMag: “Pepper spraying a bunch of seated student protesters might turn out to be one of the best career decisions John Pike ever made, despite the fact that the former University …
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Open Thread: The Real Anti-American Terrorist Organizations
Cheney: "I learned 'em good." http://t.co/skz1V3BKaX — billmon (@billmon1) July 25, 2013 From Reuters: Halliburton Co has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and will pay the maximum possible statutory fine, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday…. And then, too also: Halliburton also …
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Open Thread: Another “Massive” GOP Swelling
(Joel Pett via GoComics.com) Via Billmon’s twitter feed, David Corn at Mother Jones introduces us to the latest GOP propaganda / money funnel: Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washington—including the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington …
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