On twitter, I think I may have either propositioned JenJen and ABL or admitted to a love child with either one of them. I’m not sure, because it is the liquor talking.
WOO FRIDAY!
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On twitter, I think I may have either propositioned JenJen and ABL or admitted to a love child with either one of them. I’m not sure, because it is the liquor talking.
WOO FRIDAY!
by John Cole| 44 Comments
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Have at it. Cooking a late dinner for some friends. And knocking back some mojitos, also too.
by Sarah, Proud and Tall| 138 Comments
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I apologize that I’ve been quiet recently. There hasn’t been much posting because every time I sit at my computer and start to write, I have an overwhelming urge to repeatedly slam my face into my keyboard, and frankly ten pages of:
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does not make compelling reading (even if it is more coherent, incisive and factually-based than anything Megan McArdle has managed to write in the last ten years).
I’m going to try and get my mojo back with a post about things that have enabled me to survive a month in which it seemed like everyone in the world had turned into a raging dickhead except you and me (and honestly I was a little bit dubious about you and me).
First – geekery! A new Doctor Who trailer with lots of recycled stuff, but a few intriguing new glimpses of pyramiddy goodness.
I think I might be a little old for Matt Smith, but it would be nice to add a fourth Doctor’s notch to my bedpost. Anyway, you never know, he might be interested in a woman who’s almost as old as his character.
Sticking with Doctor Who for a moment, I have very much enjoyed reading two websites whose authors have been taking two very different approaches to watching Doctor Who in order from the start. At Adventures with the Wife in Space, Neil Perryman has convinced his non-geek wife to watch with him, and is charting their progress. Mrs Perryman is simply a hoot.
Meanwhile, Philip Sandifer’s writing at TARDIS Eruditorum: A Psychochronography in Blue is not a tenth as po-faced as the name might suggest, and he provides some wildly entertaining analysis of each episode for those hardcore Who geeks amongst us.
Next, this article about Dutch railway maintenance company ProRail’s new “transfer acceleration system” at Overvecht station. I love the Dutch, and not only because when they talk they sound like they are saying rude things in English. (h/t B3ta)
Finally, 7×7 has a quite wonderful mash up by Stein-Vidar called Like a Virgin At The Y.M.C.A. via Bootie blog. For some reason, I imagine Krugman and Frum engaging in a little bit of frottage to it, nice and gentle with lots of kissing and soulful glances.
So kiddies, share… What is it that you have been using this week to distract you from the overwhelming urge to kidnap David Brooks, torment him with a chopstick for a few hours and then chain him naked to a pole in Times Square with “I am more stupid than Megan McArdle” tattooed on his forehead?
[Cross-posted at Sarah, Proud and Tall.]Open Thread – The little things that keep me sanePost + Comments (138)
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Insert your panic here. I have yardwork to do.
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(Jeff Danziger’s website)
I’ve added Satan sandwich to the Balloon Juice Lexicon:
Satan sandwich—Near the end of the Congressional debt-ceiling crisis of July/August 2011, Congressional Black Caucus chair Emanuel Cleaver announced via Twitter:
“This deal is a sugar-coated Satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see… This debt deal is antithetical to everything the great religions of the world teach, which is take care of the poor, aged, vulnerable.”
Presumably related to the proverbial shit sandwich, where ‘the more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat.’
Any other Notable Quotes, debt-related or otherwise, which need to be added to the Lexicon while the grudges links are still fresh?
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ETA: I took this post into ‘edit’ mode to fix a link, and now I owe Freddie an apology for hopscotching his post, but I’m afraid that futzing around any further will end with me breaking the whole blog… Sorry about that!
Early Morning Open Thread: Satan SandwichPost + Comments (15)
by Dennis G.| 93 Comments
This post is in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Glibertarianism, Open Threads, Assholes, The Math Demands It
The Tea Party traces its roots to some millionaire Wall Street media star whining on the teevee. It is the bastard child of our Galtian overlords. And I guess they thought their creation was cute when it went around yelling that the Gub-a-mint needed to keep its hands off their Medicare. It seemed the Tea Party was just fine as long as the noise they made helped to protect the wealth of the elites. But a funny thing has happened.
It turns out that the Tea Party is bad for business. It seems that a movement rooted in rage–fueled by racism–and acting without any grounding in reality will fuck things up when it gets power. Who knew? Who could have predicted it?
But they did get power and they have Fucked things up Big Time. The Markets and the invisible hand now tremble with fear about what their little monster might do next.
And their reaction should be called The Tea Party Dive.
Wall Street has realized that their astro-turf creation doesn’t give a rats ass about markets, jobs, stability, reality or any of that shit. All the Tea Party wankers care about is the purity of their fantasies–and if the global economy must be destroyed in pursuit of their myths, delusions and talking points, well so be it.
Steve Benen posted a chart today that shows the Tea Party Dive:
And if you look at other economic indicators you’ll see other signs of damage since the Tea Party and their rich fantasy life extremism took over the Conservative movement and the National debate about our economy.
These people are batshit crazy. They will burn it all down in the belief that an Ayn Rand Jesus will look down and bless them with his/her tinkle as they muck about in the ashes.
Their plans for America’s future make less sense than Klaus Kinski’s plan–at the end of Aguirre, the Wrath of God–to use his new monkey army to conquer the world. And yet, Aguirre’s final dreams of conquest were more rooted in reality than the ideas of your average TeaBagger. And now these lunatics have real power to destroy things and so things break.
Our Galtian overlords have lost control of their little monster. They fear the coming waves of TeaBagger harm to the economy and so we have The Tea Party Dive.
I wonder how things will work out when the bell rings on Friday…
And with that how about an open thread.
Cheers
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From commentor Linda Featheringill:
This is my fall garden. Those containers are grocery store reusable bags. Soil is in the bag about 6 inches deep and each bag holds about one squre foot, if you’re into that sort of thing.
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The plan is to grow 8 brussels sprouts, 15 rutabagas, and a bag full of leeks [maybe about 15 or so]. All of these have 90-some-odd maturation periods and I’m aiming for a frost date of last week in October. About a month from now, I should plant kale, broccoli raab, spinach, and beets [50 to 60 day maturation periods].
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It has been quite hot for a week and it looks like there’s more heat ahead, so I placed these bags on the east side of the house where they can enjoy morning sun and afternoon shade. After it cools off a bit, I can pick them up by their handles and move them over to the west side of the house.
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I’ve never been around a fall garden before. We’ll see how it does.
From commentor Scout211:
Here is my garden about a month ago. All the plants are huge right now and producing bushels of good stuff.
Aaaaand from commentor Jo6pac:
These are from 4 weeks ago. I’ve already harvested one 5 gallon bucket of tomatoes (turn them into sauce) and a melon. The bells are a little slow this year but hope to stuff 100 or so.
“Only two things that money can’t buy — that’s true love and home-grown tomatoes.” Somebody on Cole’s last (BLT) thread misquoted the highlighted phrase as “free“, which all us gardeners know isn’t true… it’s the memory of all your planning & fretting & (literally) sweat equity that adds the extra-special flavor.
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(Works the same way in relationships, in my experience; Monday marked the 18th anniversary for me and the Spousal Unit, but only because we spent 15 years ‘experimenting’ before we took out the paperwork.)
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How are things looking in your gardens this week?