A belated posting. I wanted to embed video but apparently the corpse of Steve Jobs doesn’t want me to be able to do that either so, if you’d like to hear the clever birdy, you’ll need to go here or search for “chook the superb lyrebird” on the Googles. 29 December 2011: Adelaide Zoo’s much …
Nature & Respite
Lemurs on Newt
Anne Laurie has already mentioned the Pets on Newt 2012 (#maynotbeitsactualname) website. You may not know it is now up and running. I stumbled upon it today and need to share it with you, because I am a vengeful old cow. I will excerpt the relevant parts, for those of you who don’t want to …
Open Thread: Darth Cheney, Fictioneer
(Jim Morin via GoComics.com) Conor Friedersdorf at the Atlantic has a pretty good thumbnail summary Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney: the Iraq war, torture, Halliburton, Ahmed Chalabi, unlimited detention of the innocent, his radical view of executive power, etc. Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, sniffs about Cheney’s “cheap shots”: “I …
Laugh, clowns, at your broken loves
I don’t often visit the New York Times website. There is far too much risk that I might accidentally be exposed to something written by David Brooks, at which point I would have to poke out my own eyes with a pair of chopsticks to save my sanity. At 92, I need to hang on …
Law-Abiding Hypocrites
Let’s wring our hands, because some Democrats are using the same laws Karl Rove used in 2010 to create their own giant anonymous PAC full of corporate money: The effort is modeled on the one Republicans started last year — with help from the Republican strategist Karl Rove — that attacked Democrats with a barrage of …
The truth is out there
Goddammit. I post a righteous <a href=”https://balloon-juice.com/2011/04/27/why-does-peggy-noonan-hate-america/”>rant</a> about the world thinking Americans are all insane and then half an hour later the entire United States goes stark raving birther-mad just to prove me correct. Anyway, it was the 5th of August 1961. Keith and I had been in Nairobi undermining the more moderate sections of …
Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh…
Because we’re too big to cry…but seriously, isn’t Michelle Bachmann living proof that, yes, we must needs weep for the Republic.* Her latest, via TPM: “What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in …