What’s the haps on the craps?
Readership Capture
Late Night Open Thread: Next Gen
From commentor BGinCHI:
We were in Santa Cruz, CA last month and commenter Loneoak and Mrs. Loneoak had us over for dinner. Their son, Enzo (who was also featured on BJ when he was born), and Xavi had a great time hanging out.
In honor of Father’s Day, a pic of them is attached. Xavi on the left, Enzo on the right.
I know: shameless promotion of the kids!
All together now: awwwwwwwww…….!
Circle of life, y’all. Special thanks to commentor MiseryBob for reminding me about this song:
Father’s day music thread
What’s the best Father’s Day themed song? I can’t take that “Dance With My Father” song, so I have to go with “Cats in the Cradle”.
Please, no contemporary country songs, people, “Butterfly Kisses” is deeply creepy and all the ones about getting cancer and realizing how much you love your family are too treacly. There is at least one famous old country song that would be a good choice here…see if anyone gets it.
Chris Hayes Has A Book to Sell Give Away!
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Chris Hayes’ book Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy is being released tomorrow. Thanks to Crown Publishing’s generosity, I have a signed hardback copy waiting for a lucky Balloon Juice reader:
Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite–one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.
Mixing deft political analysis, timely social commentary, and deep historical understanding, Twilight of the Elites describes how the society we have come to inhabit – utterly forgiving at the top and relentlessly punitive at the bottom – produces leaders who are out of touch with the people they have been trusted to govern. Hayes argues that the public’s failure to trust the federal government, corporate America, and the media has led to a crisis of authority that threatens to engulf not just our politics but our day-to-day lives.
(So, yeah: like the best of Balloon Juice, but with fewer typoes and demands for pet pictures.)
Since it worked so well for our last giveway, I’m going to use the same system. WordPress willing, I’ll put up a post this evening, titled “CONTEST: Twilight of the Elites Giveaway“. Everybody who’s interested gets one entry, one comment. (Duplicate comments will get you eliminated.) The contest will stay open until Tuesday evening, so everyone should have a chance to enter. Then I’ll use a random number generator (www.random.org) to pick the number of the winning comment.
Questions, suggestions, complaints — this would be the place to speak up.
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Open thread
What are we gonna do if we lose that fire?
Open thread
Nothing too exciting from me to report at Netroots today. Dana Loesch is here and I tried to troll her film crew but they didn’t seem interested in talking to me.
I’m kind of bummed about I’ll Have Another.
Talk about whatever.
Netroots Nation Meetup
We’re planning on two meetups for NRN in Providence: Today at 2 and tomorrow at 2.
Today’s is at Murphy’s Deli and Bar, at 100 Fountain Street, which is basically across the street from the convention center (directions).
Tomorrow’s will be at the Dorrance at 60 Dorrance Street (directions).
DougJ is wearing a blue sportcoat. I have grey pants and a blue checked shirt. Hope to see you there.