(Mike Thompson via GoComics.com) Why I love Mr. Charles P. Pierce — “The Greatest. Poll. Ever“: I am going to print out this poll and, perhaps, put it on my wall in a gilded frame. I hope every cable teevee haircut who plans to ride the Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! train to riches and fame and …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Silverplate Lining
(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com) Greg Sargent makes the glass-half-full argument: … Liberals who are dreading the scandal-mania that is taking hold should note that it contains a potential upside: It could make a Grand Bargain that includes cuts to Medicare and Social Security benefits even less likely than it already is. That’s because when scandal …
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Tinfoil Open Thread: Of Course, They’re Watching You
ETA — Good news: I can still post. Bad news: FYWP’s ‘Schedule’ function still borkt. Ken Layne trolls his readers at Gawker: … Today’s scandals are only scandals because we have yet to acknowledge that we carry tracking beacons wherever we go—whether a smart phone or Google Glass or inside our car’s navigation system—and that …
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Open Thread: Coolest Vice-President Evaarrrr!
(AP photo/Jenny Aicher) Thanks to commentor Trollhattan, for this article from the Green Bay Press Gazette: MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin boy wrote Vice President Joe Biden with an unusual suggestion for making the nation safer: Create guns that shoot chocolate bullets. On Monday, he got an unusual response: A handwritten note from Biden on vice …
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Tuesday Afternoon Open Thread
(Stone Soup via GoComics.com) . Some days everything seems political, dunnit? Posting this to see how long it takes Cole to bigfoot. Place your bets in the comments.
Late Night Open Thread: Helpful? Honest? Both? Neither?
Thing is, we’re not Republicans, and most of the authoritarians on the (D) side of the aisle are at least trying to keep one foot in the Reality-Based Community. We can’t just scream NIXON DID IT FIRST AND BESIDES REAGAN WAS WORSE AND ALSO DUBYA? WAR CRIMINAL! (which would at least have the advantage of …
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Worth Noting: “How Austerity Kills”
David Stuckler, Oxford sociologist, and Sanjay Basu, Stanford epidemiologist, have a book to sell. They had a most interesting op-ed in Sunday’s NYTimes concerning that book, “The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills”: … The correlation between unemployment and suicide has been observed since the 19th century. People looking for work are about twice as likely …