Shrove (Pancake) Tuesday, time to use up all the saved butter and sweetener, before Ash Wednesday and Lent’s enforced fasts. (Enforced, for most of our European ancestors, by the starvation season between the end of last year’s harvest and the first of this spring’s growth — but if you’re going to suffer anyway, might as …
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Saturday Morning Open Thread
__ Best wishes and stout companions to all attending today’s solidarity rallies, and condolences to those kept away by inclement weather and the myriad other irritations of daily life. __ As a reminder, this week’s book discussion of NIXONLAND involves Chapters Eight and Nine, a mere thirty pages. Come join the conversation Sunday at 4pm …
The People’s Poet Laureate
Got a chance to listen to some Mountain Stage on the ride home today, and heard some songs from Loudon Wainwright III that made me laugh. He’s kind of a hillbilly Randy Newman, and some of you might like his work. Here’s Cash for Clunkers from his new album, 10 Songs for the New Depression: …
Early Morning Open Thread
__ On Wisconsin! and Ohio, and every other state and nation where we must stand together or hang separately. __ Sweet dreams to anyone who’s still up, and good morning to those who are just joining us.
Open Thread: Bread & Roses
Report from commentor Rozlyn, on the front lines: Just returned home from Madison—it was another beautiful day at the capitol with great turnout. Police and fire were there in force, which really fired up the crowds (the governor has exempted them from this union battle in an attempt to divide and conquer)! __ The counter …
Early Morning Open Thread: Keep Fighting
Couple of uplifting assaults on the Conventional Wisdom to get the blood pumping. First, Paul Krugman (peace be upon His Eternal Shrillness!) uses his NYTimes space to explain, yet again, why when it comes to the trendy new deficit hawks, “Willy Sutton Wept“: There are three things you need to know about the current budget …
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Late Night Open Thread: Mercy!
Was gonna do some long-form snark on Mr. “Who knew selling my li’l princess Froggy Dimples to the Mouse Factory was gonna backfire?” and his belief that the Adopt-A-Highway program leads to Satanism, but the original “Come gawk with us at the trailer-trash novelty act and his deeply narcissistic narrative about Jeebus and other dead …