. . From commentor geg6: I have attached the first picture of Koda and the first of Koda and Otis meeting each other. Well, Koda’s flight finally came in about midnight (it was supposed to land at 9:30pm). She weathered the flight, long as it was, well and was very happy to see us when …
Saturday Morning Open Thread: Alternate Universes
(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) . I remember Democrats and DFHs joking about the two biggest blowhards of the 2012 GOP Klown Kavalcade hooking up, but it seems like reality keeps outrunning satire. Dave Weigel reports: No story will bring you more joy today than Joshua Green’s thoroughly reported autopsy of the Gingrich-Santorum “unity ticket” that …
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Late Night Horror Show: “The Nightmare of the West Memphis Three”
For all our scienterrific advancements, we hairless hominids are never more than a local tragedy away from a live-action reenactment of the Salem Witch Trials. Nathaniel Rich, in the New York Review of Books: In May 1993, Jason Baldwin was a skinny redheaded teenager whose favorite activities were listening to Metallica records and fishing behind …
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Friday Recipe Exchange: Orange Bread
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: I love fruit breads. It took me a long time to move beyond banana bread, but strawberry bread and lemon bread are high on my list of favorites. I had never made orange bread before, but this week when it was clear I had a half dozen Clementine oranges that …
Open Thread: Forgive, Maybe; Forget, Never
(Ted Rall via GoComics.com) . No forgiveness until the offender has owned up, though. Doghouse Riley shreds the tissue-thin facade of “who could have imagined?” Republican historicism regarding Dubya’s Grand Mesopotamian Adventure, as represented by the sodden online avatar of Peggy Noonan: Iraq marked a departure in mood and tone from past conservatism. Flummery. There’s …
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Losing the Vote, Keeping the Seats
(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com) . Detail-intensive, depressing/infuriating article from Bloomberg: … A majority of Americans disapprove of the Republicans in Congress, yet the odds remain in the party’s favor that it will retain control of the House. One big reason the Republicans have this edge: their district boundaries are drawn so carefully that the only …
At Guantanamo, America’s Looking Like A Real Empire…
Charlie Savage reports, in the NYTimes: WASHINGTON — A hunger strike by detainees who have been held for years without trial at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has grown to involve at least 25 prisoners, the Defense Department disclosed Wednesday. That number includes eight who are being force-fed a nutritional supplement through a …
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