Since the local tribalists are getting boooored trying to outdo each other coming up with inventive ways to punish Ed Snowden, here’s a new chewtoy for the excuse generator. Via McClatchy, Carol Rosenberg, longterm reporter on Guantanamo for the Miami Herald: New layer of secrecy emerges at Guantanamo court GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — …
The Way We Live Now: Rent-to-Own Tires
At first I thought this was a parody, but I should’ve known better. From the LATimes: When the tires on their Dodge Caravan had worn so thin that the steel belts were showing through, Don and Florence Cherry couldn’t afford to buy a new set. So they decided to rent instead. The Rich Square, N.C., …
Tuesday Evening Open Thread: You Go, Ma’am!
Feel-good story of the evening, from CBS News: ROANOKE, Texas — Seventy-five-year-old flight instructor Wally Funk has always been a bit unconventional. She’s been around planes since she could walk and earned her pilot’s license as a teenager… Though she is relentlessly upbeat, there is one thing that still gnaws at Wally Funk: the flight …
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Open Thread: Always Be Conning
Digby alerts us that “Fix the Debt”, aka “Steal the Trust Fund”, is still on the loose, and they are coming for the Yoot: The shrieking cries of the fiscal hawks may be somewhat muted with the news that the deficit is shrinking, austerity is a bust and that they’ve achieved their fondest wish of …
Monday Evening Open Thread: Glamour
Tony “cheat sheet”, via Christopher Frizzelle at the Stranger. He also has NPHarris’ amazing opening act, all eight-plus minutes, but I’m more impressed by the closer, since I assume it was being written during the show itself. Besides: Audra McDonald! What’s on the agenda for the evening?
More Angles on the Snowden Defection
(Jeff Danziger’s website) Via Alec MacGillis at TNR (“Edward Snowden, Exemplar of the Beltway’s Economic Boom — Washington is full of high-earning contractors just like him”), the NYTimes follows the money: WASHINGTON — Edward J. Snowden’s employer, Booz Allen Hamilton, has become one of the largest and most profitable corporations in the United States almost …
Monday Morning Open Thread: Wild Things
Via Slate: For what would have been his 85th birthday on Monday, Google has drawn up a wonderfully imagined Google Doodle as a tribute to the beloved illustrator and children’s book author Maurice Sendak…. For what it’s worth, various distractions over the weekend meant we were spared exhaustive dissections of a potential key foreign affairs …