Looks like it’s time.
Open Threads
Navy Yard Shooting
At least 10 have been shot at the DC Navy Yard. Here’s the Post liveblog. Update: Police believe there were three shooters. (2nd update: Navy can’t confirm or deny.)
The Minimum
Last week, Washington, DC’s mayor supported Wal-Mart by vetoing a law that would raise the minimum wage in DC to $12.50/hour. The bill targeted big-box retail, so it wasn’t a straight wage increase. Still, Kathleen Geier wonders why Democrats (and she lists a lot of them) are so reluctant to make a stand against Wal-Mart: …
Late Night Music Open Thread
Via Andrea DenHoed at the New Yorker: Dolly Parton must be one of the only singers around whose voice could undergo such extreme manipulation and sound not sadly distorted but, rather, beautifully remade. Her baby-high soprano has always seemed slightly unreal anyway, a record played a little too fast. As it happens, one of her …
SNF Open Thread
Wow, did the Seahawks get hosed there by the jackass in the stands with a whistle, but they just got a touch of justice picking off the SF QB whose name I can not spell.
Open Thread: The Silence of the Shills
I think this is one possible answer to the questions raised by DougJ’s last thread. Via Billmon, ThinkProgress: As his fellow panelists sought to sidestep criticisms of the financial industry on the five-year anniversary of the bank failure that kicked the financial crisis and Great Recession into full swing, former congressman Barney Frank asked a …
NFL Open Thread
Couldn’t access the website for a while there… Oh, and for your viewing pleasure, here is a Boston Terrier in a summer dress riding a scooter: Why not?