__ __ Via Paul Constant. Look at it this way: If you needed an excuse to start drinking, you’ve got it. Apart from that, what’s on the agenda for the start of the weekend?
Early Morning Open Thread: The Veep Debate
A parable, or something: The Doberman is a designer dog, bred by a Swiss-German tax collector (who was also the local dog catcher) who wanted a streamlined, swift personal-protection animal that would look more intimidating than the farm dogs and cattle herders of its ancestry. The Bull Terrier is a “fun, comical, people-loving… clownish” dog …
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Saginaw Cat Rescue Bleg, Part II
__ Since I could, I sent commentor Freemark some funds towards getting the grey kitty vetted. He wrote me back Wednesday evening: I’m attaching a few more pictures now that she has a full belly, is less anxious, and has settled down… I have to admit I’ve been looking up cat care on-line. She is …
Post-Debate Open Thread
Well, that felt good, didn’t it? Many thanks to Joe Patrice for his most instructive liveblogging, and I for one hope he’ll be willing to join us for the remaining Presidential debates as well. On a personal note, while I didn’t get my fondest wish to see Uncle Joe give Lyin’ Ryan a noogie onstage, …
Wonder Why We’re Not Hearing More About the GOP’s Benghazi Witch-Hunt?
Per Dana Milbank, certified member of the Media Village at the Washington Post: When House Republicans called a hearing in the middle of their long recess, you knew it would be something big, and indeed it was: They accidentally blew the CIA’s cover. The purpose of Wednesday’s hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee …
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Open Thread: Schadenfreude Buffet
To be sung to the tune of “Raspberry Beret”. Felix Salmon, Reuter’s official finance blogger, is unkind to “Conspiracy Jack” Welch: …When someone of Welch’s stature accuses a sitting president of deliberately manipulating economic statistics for political purposes, just a month before an election, you have to live in a pretty astonishing bubble of flattery …
Call for Pet Pictures: Balloon Juice Calendar 2013
__ From graphic artist and extremely generous person, Beth Salman: dear balloon juicers, it’s the time of the year again for good deeds and showing off your critters. in other words, time to make another balloon juice calendar for 2013. please send me a photo of your pet(s) in as high a resolution as you …
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