Charlie Savage, in the NYTimes: The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved a bill that would significantly relax legal restrictions on the transfer of detainees out of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, giving President Obama much greater flexibility as he attempts to revive his effort to close the facility. Approved late last week …
Monday Evening Open Thread: Grammar & Words
. What’s on the agenda for the evening?
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“They Pretend to Pay Us, and We Pretend to Work”
Older readers will remember the title as a punchline from the declining days of the Soviet Union. Looks like forty years of Reagan-blessed kleptocracy is reducing America to the same level. Timothy Egan, in the NYTImes, on why American workers are “Checking Out” … [A]n exhaustive and depressing new study of the American workplace done …
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Monday Morning Open Thread
. From all indications, this should be a week full of news, most of it by definition either agitating or depressing or both. While we gird ourselves, what’s on the agenda for this particular Monday?
The Farm Bill Failure & Prospects for Immigration Reform
I’m a lifelong Democrat, so the word “hope” is not really significant in my vocabulary, but I would be most pleasantly surprised if last week’s farm bill debacle knocked some sense into a few Repub heads. And I’m very, very glad that we’ve got Pelosi on our side while the GOP only has Boehner. Greg …
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Nancy Pelosi at Netroots
John Boehner’s nemesis Nancy Pelosi did an “Ask the Leader” panel at Netroots Nation today; there’s a Storify about it here. Here’s Dave Weigel’s take: Netroots Nation hasn’t been overly defined by security issues, and it hasn’t centered around massive keynote speeches. The exceptions came during the Saturday lunch session, when activists grabbed Sierra Club-sponsored …
Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Summer Solstice
“Solstice Artichoke”, by loyal commentor Raven. And from commentor Kathi C: About the only thing that beats picking your own veggies from the yard is the opportunity to prove to the 5 year old grandson that there’s something he likes under those “weeds” (as he’s been calling them). The carrots needed to be thinned and …
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