NYMag‘s Benjamin Wallace-Wells asks economist Robert Gordon, “What if everything we’ve come to think of as American is predicated on a freak coincidence of economic history? And what if that coincidence has run its course?“ Picture this, arranged along a time line. For all of measurable human history up until the year 1750, nothing happened …
Sunday Garden Chat: Graceful Grains
From faithful commentor Marvel: It’s been perfect growing weather here in the Willamette Valley — long, warm & sunny days with cool breezes in the evening. The veggies are pretty much taking care of themselves (at this point, we’re just here to give ’em a refreshing sip of water now & again). We’ve harvested all …
Late Night Open Thread: In Other News…
(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com) So, let’s attack a target we can all agree deserves it. From Alex Pareene, at Salon: Ted Cruz does not care about you, Republican “grown-ups” … To all these critics, the only reasonable response is, hope you enjoy this bed you made for yourselves. Ted Cruz is the right man for …
Cat Updates: Good News & Otherwise
First the good news, from Saira: Orville was picked up by his adopter today and is already at his new home, getting to know his new humans and kitty sibling. It goes without saying that the adopter was from the Balloon Juice commentariat. Thanks again to both you and the BJ community for helping Orville …
Late Night Open Thread: Why I Got the Hell Out of the Bronx
Behold my people: Second- or third-generation Irish-American rage addicts. (Notice the epicanthic fold; we need those exaggerated eyebrows because nobody can see our eyes.) Rand ‘Thanksdad’ Paul called Pete ‘Mucker’ King (‘and Christie and people like that’) a “tax and spend liberal”. Pete King responded by comparing Rand to Lindbergh during his America First days. …
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Open Thread: Sign of the Apocalypse #3,485,752
Via Paul Constant: Amazon solicits Kurt Vonnegut fan fiction. Okay, back when ‘fan fic’ was being invented and I was an irresponsible young college student, I committed a few Trekkie stories. But Star Trek was (is) a television franchise, an ever-evolving collaboration between the creator, the scriptwriters, the actors, and the suits in marketing. By …
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Early Morning Open Thread: “Saboteurs in the Potato Salad”
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com — click link to enlarge) Mad props to Tim Egan in the NYTimes: Just now, a cell of several hundred people has been dispatched into the American summer, to picnics, town halls, radio stations, hospitals and Little League playing fields, with a mission to derail the economic recovery and drum up …
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