At first glance, I read “Ghailiani” as “Guiliani”. That was really scary… Ted Rall periodically Goes Too Far, but he has a genius for combining two or more of the latest political outrages to best storytelling effect. (People will pay for content that’s worth paying for, and I have been subscribing to www.gocomics.com for six …
Early Morning Open Thread: Lexiconning
I have spent some more hours happily OCDing through the Lexicon, adding attributions, cleaning up links, and including such neologisms as PTDB, Green Balloon Juice, Teabuggers, Moderation (Your Comment Is Awaiting) — linked the WP Codex spam list there — and Firebagger: Firebagger – Unfortunate portmanteau of FDL ‘Firepup’ and ‘Teabagger’, possibly coined by Firedoglake …
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
Take it away, Bad Horse’s Filly: Really? Another week has come and gone? It’s been a busy one, a productive one, but it went by too quickly. Because my schedule has been a bit crazy, you’ll notice someone has joined the What’s 4 Dinner Solutions’ team to help out – JeffreyW has already added some …
Morning Open Thread: Geek Fashion Query
Since the new geekalicious iPad is too large to carry in even the most capacious pair of Dockers, does that mean we’ll be seeing better options for man-purses that don’t look like hiking gear? You know, ‘messenger bags’ that don’t weigh more than ten pounds empty and/or feature ersatz dayglo ‘tribal’ decorations? (Srsly, from my …
SOTU Open Thread #2
If the site doesn’t go down again. FYWP. Whoops, Obama just pledged to “work with Congress” to repeal DADT…
R.I.P. Howard Zinn
From his hometown paper: Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87. __ “His …
State of the Union Programming Note
Hulu is going to livestream tonight’s SOTU address and the Republican response. I’m going to try watching it there, because I’ve had trouble with drop-outs and freeze-ups on the “serious” online channels (CNN/MSNBC) during previous Presidential speeches. And for a little schadenfreude, EventheWingnuttiest Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-‘Prosperity’) has begun a walkback on attending the National …