Whew — I saw Harriet Tubman trending and for a moment I thought she had died — Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) May 12, 2015 So the voters have spoken, and “my” candidate won! Per the Washington Post: A group that wants to kick Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill and replace him with a woman has, …
C.R.E.A.M.
Open Thread: Big Props to Kay’s Senator Sherrod Brown
This Huffington Post piece also seems like a fair summary of the fast-track kerfuffle… Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has been the public face of the Democratic Party’s feud with President Barack Obama over his trade agenda. But behind the scenes, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) quietly united his party behind a strategy that resulted in a …
Open Thread: Big Props to Kay’s Senator Sherrod BrownPost + Comments (200)
Fast-Tracking TPP: Punching Hippies, Punching Down
There's a giant american flag behind Obama, while he speaks at a company that says in its annual report almost all its workers are overseas — Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 8, 2015 As reported by the radical pamphleteers at USAToday: … Obama made his case for free trade at a company that many liberals — …
Fast-Tracking TPP: Punching Hippies, Punching DownPost + Comments (221)
Sunday Evening Open Thread: Daydream Believer
Dave Weigel, at Bloomberg Politics, reports on how “The Campaign Finance Gyrocopter Man Describes His New, Surreal Existence“… … Two weeks before the Washington, D.C. court hearing on his stunt—he was charged with a felony—Hughes is embracing his status as a spokesman for campaign reform. He’s declared solidarity with the Stamp Stampede, the reform campaign …
Sunday Evening Open Thread: Daydream BelieverPost + Comments (113)
Thursday Evening Open Thread: Monetizing the Klown Show
(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) . John Cassidy, economics reporter for the New Yorker: … Nobody should be expected, or forced, to keep up with every detail of the G.O.P. primary, especially when, Lord help us, we still have more than eight months to go until the Iowa caucuses. At this stage, the important thing to …
Thursday Evening Open Thread: Monetizing the Klown ShowPost + Comments (70)
Open Thread: Rev. Huck-ster Jumps Aboard the Klown Kar
Politics in 2016: "If you want to give a million dollars, please do it." http://t.co/y6x7njXi86 — Kathleen Ronayne (@kronayne) May 5, 2015 This guy, I’m gonna have no trouble whatsoever mocking. Mike Huckabee’s the evangelical version of Donald Trump. He’s just ‘in the race’ to market his brand, and within a few months (if not …
Open Thread: Rev. Huck-ster Jumps Aboard the Klown KarPost + Comments (80)
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Assisting Nepal
(Nick Anderson via GoComics.com) . Recent updates from the area, via the Boston Globe: Nepalese villagers struggle home amid chaos Doctor near Mount Everest offers insight on Nepal quake I do not underestimate the power of prayer, but I’m from the theological school that says faith without works is a meagre faith indeed. I asked …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Assisting NepalPost + Comments (62)