. . A little somethng for the Obots, from the Los Angeles Times, via Taegan Goddard: Final Tally Shows Election Wasn’t Even Close… “In the weeks since the election, as states have completed their counts, Obama’s margin has grown steadily. From just over 2 percentage points, it now stands at nearly 4. Rather than worry …
Late Night Open Thread: Eine Kleine Nerdmusick
__ __ My sincere thanks to commentor Karen Marie!
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Open Thread: Another Musical Interlude
__ __ I do not claim to know much about music. Anybody got suggestions? What’s on the agenda for the remnants of the weekend?
It’s A Shanda for the Neighbors
That’s how my lace-curtain Irish grandmother would reprimand us, in a loose translation of her Yiddish-speaking neighbors’ shanda fur die goyim. The Newtown tragedy has disgraced America, per Evan Osnos in the New Yorker: The children of Chengping were still filtering into the local elementary school on Friday morning, China time, when a deranged thirty-six-year-old …
Gun SAFETY Regulation. Because Guns Are For Grown-Ups
And America seems to be suffering from a shortage of grown-ups. This is just bass-ackwards: … The tragedy in Connecticut will convince communities across the country to cut other spending in favor of funding greater security measures, including adding armed guards at schools, said Peter Pochowski, the former executive director of the National Association of …
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Open Thread: Musical Interlude
__ As a (marginal) folkie, I found this fascinating. From Wikipedia: Lcha Dodi (Hebrew: לכה דודי; also transliterated as Lecha Dodi, L’chah Dodi, Lekah Dodi, Lechah Dodi; Ashkenazic pronunciation: Lecho Dodi, Biblical: Lekhah Dhodhiy) is a Hebrew-language Jewish liturgical song recited Friday at dusk, usually at sundown, in synagogue to welcome Shabbat prior to the …
Re-Defining the Gun Argument
Ask yourself, punk: Do I feel lucky?… At some point, it seems, Americans became enamoured, even obsessed, with the idea that guns win arguments. Guns can certainly end arguments, including those held by damaged individuals with the voices in their heads, but rebuttal is not actually what guns were invented for. Guns are tools, dangerous …