. Video from Dave Weigel, who describes the “hours-long goat rodeo“: … It never got violent, but it got heated. At one point, one of the frustrated Latino pastors from New York (churches from that state and New Jersey sent 700 people to the march) broke from the MFM pack and started beseeching the pro-equality …
Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Welcome to the Future
. Doing some housecleaning, at the request of the blogmaster, and found this. Yes, Paisley got to perform this at the White House, too. What’s on the agenda for the evening?
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Late Night Open Thread: Nancy Not Smash — Just Yet
A little Masshole self-indulgence, here. Per Janet Wu at Boston’s WCVB (Ch.5), “Pelosi not taking sides in special election“: BOSTON —House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Thursday sidestepped questions about the special democratic US Senate primary between two of her colleagues. Pelosi was in Boston to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the family medical leave act. …
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Open Thread: “The Credit-History Pariah Class”
Kudos to the NYTimes editorial board for this: Research has shown that someone with a poor credit history is not automatically a poor job prospect. Nevertheless, millions of Americans who have emerged from the recession with medical debts or a record of late payments are at risk of being denied jobs by companies that use …
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Another Koda Update
. For those of you who don’t get to read Balloon Juice on the weekends, Koda finally got to Pittsburgh on Friday night, and she’s doing just great in her new home, reports GEG: These are from yesterday when things started calming down a bit and Koda got to meet John’s daughter Kaitlyn. Otis [the …
Open Thread: Dr. Carson Has A TV Show to Sell
I’m gonna disagree with DougJ about Ben Carson — he’s not the next Herman Cain, he’s the next Newt Gingrich. I bookmarked this Washington Post article last night: BALTIMORE — The voice mail greeting at Benjamin Carson’s Johns Hopkins Hospital office, where he is the director of pediatric neurosurgery, stretches for almost eight minutes… Carson’s …
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Open Thread: Emmylou Harris, Ever & Always
. Did not know, until this NYTimes interview, that Emmylou Harris (& Rodney Crowell) have a new record out: In her four-decade career, Emmylou Harris has earned a dozen Grammy Awards and a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her long list of collaborators includes Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Jones, …
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