Shorter Howard Schultz: "I'd ask my baristas to keep armed gun nuts out of Starbucks, but I'm afraid they'd get shot" http://t.co/f2OFMvpW7H — billmon (@billmon1) September 18, 2013 . What’s on the agenda in your neck of the woods?
Open Threads
The siege of Washington
You know, I read a lot. Especially about things… about history. I find that shit fascinating. Here’s a fact I don’t know whether you know or not. In 1258, the Mongols laid siege to Baghdad and ended up killing pretty much everyone in the city. Baghdad had been a city where, by some accounts, the …
Open thread
I could sit around and watch footage of 70s music performances all day. This one is great. Talk about whatever.
Wednesday Morning Open Thread
Hey, look, news in the NYTimes Dealbook that doesn’t make me want to hang someone: Just over 10 years ago, the private equity mogul Glenn Hutchins was on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. With his 25th Harvard College reunion near, he was thinking about how to put some of his wealth to good use. One afternoon, …
Open Thread: Sad Probabilities
(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) . Philip Bump, at the AtlanticWire: The next mass shooting will take place on February 12, 2014, in Spokane, Washington. It will be committed by an emotionally disturbed, 38 year-old white man who will kill seven people and wound six more at a place he used to work using a semi-automatic …
She stabbed him with her steely knife…
Via Gawker. I almost don’t blame her, seeing as how the roommate is okay and all. And obviously violence isn’t an appropriate response to monopolizing the stereo. I’m not a big Eagles fan, but that woman should remember that it could have been SO much worse. Air Supply, maybe. Have you ever wanted to attack …
Johnny, we’re sorry
No idea if we’ll see a government shutdown or not but this is worth reading: Boehner clearly prefers to avoid a government shutdown. He’s spent months figuring out how to do that, fully aware of the political debacle it would entail. Unfortunately, it’s now clear that the only way he can induce the political isolation …