Remember epic loser Ron DeSantis? It wouldn’t be surprising if non-Floridians already forgot the forgettable face-planter who set $160M aflame only to come in a very distant second in the Iowa caucuses. But those of us who have to share a peninsula with the failed pretender to the MAGA moron throne get frequent reminders of …
Imaginary Conversations (Open Thread)
I was hospitalized for several days recently, and the experience was exactly like an alien abduction-themed horror movie. Don’t look at me like I’m crazy for saying that, the way my husband did. It really, really was! It’s true that I entered the facility of my own free will (and was not plucked off the …
Shut up, hissy kitty!
Is it just me, or is Katie Britt giving a world-historically terrible SOTU response? This is Bobby Jindal-level bad. Open thread.
Disarray By Design (Open Thread)
It’s a lesson won by massive heartbreak, but I think most Democrats now accept that we’re a big tent. It’s messy and maddening, and there are loudmouths who declare ownership for their faction, privilege their causes above all others, nurture intramural grievances endlessly, blah blah blah. We’re human, so that means lots of us are …
Amy Coney Barrett: Tone Police
Finally got around to reading that unanimous SCOTUS opinion on the Colorado ballot, and hoo boy. I’m not a lawyer, so I’ll leave the legal analysis to qualified people, but tone is something I do understand. And folks, what we have here is a tone cop with a newly minted badge who is instructing us …
Serenity Now
This week’s New Yorker Radio Hour had a fascinating segment on what Joe Biden thinks about the upcoming election. Host David Remnick spoke to New Yorker journalist Evan Osnos, who wrote a book about Biden’s 2020 campaign, “Joe Biden: The Life, The Run, What Matters Now.” Osnos interviewed Biden extensively for that book a few …
Sunday Afternoon Open Thread
Regular at the bar. Dapper little gent. A bit too enthused about the snack options sometimes. Open thread. ETA: At some point this week, I was driving and heard some legal analysis on an NPR program, I think. I was only half paying attention. Anyhoo, the speaker was reviewing the “novel” perspective Justice Kavanaugh or …