From commentor Dr. Squid: I’m on the Illinois side of the St. Louis area, and we need to re-home a cat obtained last fall. He is a boy cat whose name is Figaro (the 3-year old daughter named him that even when we thought he was a she, somehow she just knew), neutered, less than …
Early Morning Open Thread: Cover of the Rolling Stone
. . So the next issue of Rolling Stone is going to feature a story about Jahar “The Bomber” Tsarnaev. I’m looking forward to reading it — Janet Reitman has done some great work on ‘difficult’ topics — but it’s not the content of the article that has local media running indignant man-on-the-street clips to …
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Open Thread: Boston Area Meet-Up Tomorrow
So we’re having the first Boston / RI / southern NH meet-up tomorrow, Wednesday, at Watch City Brewing in Waltham, starting around 7-ish. Commentor and instigator Lahke has printed out a picture of Tunch to identify our table, and I’ve got some green balloons. A dozen or so people have said they plan to join …
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Elizabeth Warren: “If You Don’t Fight for It, the Chances [of Winning] Are Zero”
Tom L beat me to the front page with the video, which reminded me I hadn’t gotten around to linking Kevin Roose’s smart post at NYMag about “Elizabeth Warren’s Long Game“: [Last week], Senator Elizabeth Warren undertook a big act of financial rabble-rousing, by introducing a bill that would reinstate key provisions of the 1933 …
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Open Thread: “There Is No Justice, Unless You Make Your Own”
A little uplift for your morning. Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick explain their latest “short, opinionated documentary” for the NYTImes, “Occupy Bakery”: We first met Mahoma López, the subject of this Op-Doc video, in April 2012 at a secret meeting in a McDonald’s on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. We’d spent the previous autumn …
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Open Thread: Meet-Ups
From commentor CaseyL: The Seattle BJ crew had a meetup Saturday. MikeJ, Yatsuno, Opie_jeanne, PsiFighter+17, and more whose names I cannot remember, were there. We drank many toasts to General Stuck and Tunch. I’ve put the pix on Photobucket, and here is a link. *********** Thanks to commentor Lahke, Boston-area Juicers will get together this …
Monday Morning Open Thread: No Place At the Table
Via Corby Kummer at the Atlantic, who says that after “House Republicans split food stamps off the main package, it’s time to revisit a devastating documentary about hunger in America“: … The idea of the split makes intuitive sense. Anyone who looks at the farm bill for a few minutes–or, like Dan Imhoff, devotes a …
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