R.I.P, Sarah Jane Smith. (If only The Doctor’s TARDIS worked for us non-Time-Lords.) *********** Because DC is very much a company town, the Washington Post must interpret even a Twihard convention through the lens of the local obsession: …There were absolutely lessons for the political process in this, about “Team Edward, Team Jacob, and inability …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread
Snarky title of the day: Tom Scocca at Slate tells us that “Fred Hiatt Is Not Sure Why Republicans Keep Telling the Untruths That He Keeps Printing in the Washington Post“. Politico (you have been warned) is mildly alarmed as the Center for American Progress news team takes aim at GOP: The liberal Center for …
A Bleg and a Reward
Update: If folks would post links to online versions of their suggestions as available, we’d have a pretty good afternoon concert going, don’t you think? Bleg first…gotta sing for your supper, folks, more or less literally. Here’s the story: I received a note from my younger brother today, another one of my siblings with all …
Late Night Open Thread
__ I love this town, because it’s hella more fun than so many others. For instance, imagine the soul-searing experience of a Tea Party Cruise to Alaska sponsored by the World Nut Daily! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Sign up now for the 2011 “WND Tea Party at Sea,” a week-long cruise to Alaska, Aug. 26 to …
‘Nuclear Samurai’
Poetic name, which I don’t think I’ve seen referenced by the American media. Suzanne Goldenberg at the Guardian on “The truth about the ‘Nuclear Samurai’“: To a world that doesn’t know him, Shingo Kanno is one of the “nuclear samurai” – a selfless hero trying to save his country from a holocaust; to his family, …
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This is just a damn fine song: How y’all been?
Late Night Open Thread
If you have the opportunity to see a performance by Kodo, by all means take it. Amazing… __ Anybody still awake on the left coast or elsewhere?