(h/t commentor PsiFighter37) __ And on a less elevated tone, Professor Krugman’s diagnosis of the DC zeitgeist and the “GOP’s Existential Crisis“: We are not having a debt crisis…. No, what we’re having is a political crisis, born of the fact that one of our two great political parties has reached the end of a …
Thursday Evening Open Thread: Hope for the Rest of Us
I tend to approach cooking the way I do nuclear physics — it’s a very important occupation that should be left to those who enjoy that kind of work. But the Smitten Kitchen slow-roasted tomatoes have enriched my life & that of the Spousal Unit, so there’s a cookbook on my Winter Solstice gift list …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Good News
(Pat Oliphant via GoComics.com — click link for full-sized image) __ Odds are the world won’t end a week from Friday, although some Repubs may wish it had. A ray of hope, for those of us in the 99%, from Bobby Caina Calvan at the Boston Globe: WASHINGTON — The Senate’s Democratic leadership announced committee …
We Have Much to Learn from the Inscrutable Chinese…
… or at least our home-grown Masters of the Universe think so. Bless the Washington Post‘s Harold Meyerson for being unpopularly honest about the “Lansing-Beijing Connection“: China has a problem: rising inequality. The gap between profits and wages is soaring. Although elements of the government have sought to boost workers’ incomes, they have been thwarted …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: 12-12-12
__ __ By request. Apart from picking up those new Mayan calendars, what’s on the agenda this evening?
Open Thread: Because Us Simple Peasants Know the Smell of Manure?
(John Backderf via GoComics.com — click link for full-sized image) __ Dave Weigel at Slate asks the un-musical question “Why Has Pete Peterson’s Expensive Campaigna Against the Deficit Failed?“: … For 20 years, a coalition of wealthy people—Pete Peterson chief among them—has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build public support for austerity. They …
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Late Night Open Thread: Wedding Dress
__ __ Silly emo teenage romanticism, and yet, still healthier than this: __ __ __ No idea what happened to the rest of the front-pagers. What are y’all up to?