Here’s some topics for discussion, if you wish: Lara Logan is taking a leave of absence from “60 Minutes.” The Pope has denounced “trickle down economics.” And pretty much all of conservative/libertarian dogma, while he was at it. US B-52 bombers overflew an island claimed by both China and Japan without informing the PRC yesterday, …
Open Threads
My Internet Complaints, Chapter 1 of a Very Large Number
In the holiday spirit of airing greivances and family feuding, I wish to lodge the following complaints: Steve Benen is a great blogger but the new MSNBC redesign is ugly, and the one-sentence RSS feed is a shit sandwich on turd bread. There’s a reason that I haven’t been posting much from Benen, and that’s …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Dark, Yet Playful
(Get Fuzzy via GoComics.com) . I suspect this would make the Blogmaster’s head explode, but fortunately he doesn’t read my posts. The NYTimes reports on Tom Stoppard’s latest project: In his 2006 hit play, “Rock ’n’ Roll,” the British playwright Tom Stoppard examined the relationship between music and politics, shuttling back and forth between England …
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All Hail Our Lord and Master
Nothing immediate to do in the morning, so I am up late licking my wounds after the Pens OT loss and watching a little tv. However, I thought I would share with you that our new Lord and Master, Steve, has decided that the place he wants to be tonight is in the second story …
Monday Night Open Thread
Just checking in. And for the record, I do read the comments, and both piglets and Steve are A-ok. In fact, they are mulling around my feet as I write this because they have their internal clock set to 11 pm, which is when we go potty and then have the thing they love the …
Asshole of the Day
Jeffrey Goldberg. *** Update *** Take it away, Emily. It sure is nice to see that she has a bigger platform now.
Monday Evening Open Thread: Jaw-Jaw
Whoa. Did someone put something in Tom Friedman's mustache? Now I understand what Jennifer Rubin was freaking about: http://t.co/Oa6qt9rtk3 — billmon (@billmon1) November 25, 2013 Fortunately for the nervous among us, NYMag‘s Dan Amira did a roundup of “What Everyone Is Saying About the Iranian Nuclear Deal“, and Bill “Always Wrong” Kristol hates the heck …