Chuck Blazer agreed to go undercover at Fifa to avoid potential 75-year sentence http://t.co/UL44LPcu6c — Lauren Gambino (@LGamGam) June 15, 2015 There’s a George R.R. Martin joke in there somewhere, but I don’t know either Game of Thrones or soccer well enough to make it. *********** Apart from rich veins of snark (helloooo, newly-declared GOP …
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Open Thread: Nine… Beeelyun… Dollars!!!
At least Trump is upfront about what's important in politics right now. pic.twitter.com/Y1XhNURzSN — Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) June 15, 2015 And the managers at all the very exclusive, high-class restaurants and golf clubs that Trump graces with his world-famous presence pin a note behind the dais: Always run card before seating. ********** What’s on the …
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Open Thread: At Play in the Fields of the Lordly
Graham on Romney “We tried tall, good lookin’, smart, nice, great family. Vote for me. We’re not going down that road again!” Ha ha ha. — Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 12, 2015 Politico spills the beans: DEER VALLEY, Utah — Mitt Romney is working with an unlikely collaborator — Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul …
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Eating-Related Open Thread: “Can We Finally Treat Food Workers Fairly?”
No Recipe Exchange tonight (everybody keep a positive thought that TaMara finds her best new house soon!), so here’s a Mark Bittman NYTimes column I’ve been saving: Two pieces of seemingly unrelated news last week show just how deficient our values are when it comes to the treatment of the lowest paid workers in our …
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Friday Morning Open Thread: Mitt Romney Is Not Going Away
I've read this like 19 times and it still doesn't make sense http://t.co/hhtBorL2gJ pic.twitter.com/wz1InmpQYY — Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) June 12, 2015 And you thought your weekend looked unappetizing. From the Time article, “Rich Republican Donors Get VIP Retreat Treatment“: Call it Club Med for the political mega-donors… The event offers high-profile and high net-worth individuals …
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Open Thread: Chris Christie, Big Mouth (Large Foot)
Once again, Governor Grabbit gets caught in the crack between his freespending-as-long-as-it’s-somebody-else’s-money habits and his incurable braggadocio. Kudos to the reporters at NJ.com for digging up the story, and to the Washington Post for sharing with the rest of us: … NJ.com, the online arm of 12 New Jersey newspapers — which, by the way, …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: The Way We Live Now, #473
Conflict of interest standards are for the little journalists –> https://t.co/hvR8F8pkbD — Billmon (@billmon1) June 4, 2015 >@tomfriedman uses Baltimore Uprising as excuse to run a commercial for his wife’s charter school. @AdamJohnsonNYC http://t.co/ekWfTAPvZt — FAIR (@FAIRmediawatch) June 3, 2015 The Moustache of Understanding is never one to let go a bad old idea, and …
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