Shortly after Senator Brown #2 abandoned his much-advertised pickup truck for the plush chauffered limos of DeeCee, there was a five-alarm tire fire back in his home town. Shortly after Scotty was sworn in, gleeful weatherpersons started predicting up to 24 inches of snow in the nation’s capital… and maybe an inch, or so, in …
Open Thread : Thursday Night Menu
Take it away, Bad Horse’s Filly… I mentioned earlier that I have the winter doldrums. I await spring and the fresh foods it brings and the grilling. Lots and lots of grilling. So, tonight’s menu reflects a bit of that desire, even though for many of us, we’ll have to be satisfied cooking it in …
Late Night Open Thread
Timothy Egan has another excellent essay, “The Grifter’s Tale”, up at his NYT blog: Judson Phillips is a Tennessee lawyer, specializing in personal injury lawsuits, drunk-driving cases and men who get into trouble beating their wives. It was his idea to incorporate Tea Party Nation as a money-making venture and charge $349 to hear Sarah …
Early Morning Open Thread: Everything Old Is…
John’s busted shoulder has left Tunch’s many fans desperate for a feline, er, fix… yet my tech skills are limited to stealing others’ work. Photo courtesy of commentor Mr. Whipple, who says: “How about some Punkatude?… He goes by Punky, Punky’s Whips, Mr. Whipples, Whippy whip, Orange whip, Booj, Stinkbutt, Mr. Crusty, Nipples and Champ. …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Whither the Weather?
From a period many years before the groundhog took over forecasting duties… “If Candlemas is bright and clear, There’ll be two winters in the year; If Candlemas brings snow and rain, Old winter shall not come again.” Required legal boilerplate: Not a scienterrific methodology. So, what’s the weather like in your neighborhood this morning?
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America’s House of Lords
James Fallows has another excellent post on the death-spiral fallacy of “bipartisanship” in modern American politics: I got this note from someone with many decades’ experience in national politics… __ “Bipartisanship in the American sense means compromising on legislation so that a sufficient number of members of Congress from BOTH parties will support it, even …
Calling the Judicial Radicals Out
E.J. Dionne, bless him, is shrill: The nation owes a substantial debt to Justice Samuel Alito for his display of unhappiness over President Obama’s criticisms of the Supreme Court’s recent legislation — excuse me, decision — opening our electoral system to a new torrent of corporate money. Alito’s inability to restrain himself during the State …