Okay, maybe I’m a little obsessive about this, but Dick “Absolutely” Cheney is cementing the assumption that, as Mary McCarthy once said about a different famehound, every word he says is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’. Salon has a transcription of part of the CBS intereview where Cheney was shilling his new book: Sanjay …
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Open Thread: Bill Watterson Is A Very Wise Man
Via Paul Constant, Mental Floss magazine has an online excerpt of an interview with the creator of Calvin & Hobbes: Years ago, you hadn’t quite dismissed the notion of animating the strip. Are you a fan of Pixar? Does their competency ever make the idea of animating your creations more palatable? The visual sophistication of …
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Late Night Open Thread: Mercy Post
Lindsey Graham: "As a party, we got to do some soul-searching." http://t.co/1EkTwG2S9B He's right: It would be nice if GOP could find a soul — billmon (@billmon1) October 21, 2013 "The greatest trick the GOP ever played was convincing the devil they had a soul to sell." RT @WIIIAI: I'm sure Satan still has the …
Open Thread: Progress, If We Can Keep It
Tom Foley, Democratic House Speaker between 1989 and 1994, died last week. The New Republic took to its wayback machine to pull up what’s probably the best-remembered story about Rep. Foley — Lee Atwater sending out an official RNC memo comparing Foley to Barney Frank (“Tom Foley, Out of the Liberal Closet”): … Atwater said, …
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Late Night Open Thread: Dark Heart
@GreatDismal Definitely has a silencer on it, anyway. — billmon (@billmon1) October 19, 2013 . Somebody has a book to sell, so — just in time for planning Halloween costumes! — we learn that Dick Cheney survived five heart attacks to steal a transplant from a more deserving recipient by being a total, total wussy …
Long Read: “Charismatic Megafauna” vs. Locavorism
What’s a hipster to do when the really tasty renewable neighborhood foodstuff is also a local mascot? Marnie Hanel reports for the NYTimes: In the months leading up to the hunt, Dylan Mayer trained twice a week in his parents’ swimming pool, asking friends to attack him, splay their arms and grab him, drag him …
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