My car overheats when I’m stick in really terrible traffic, like move half a mile in half an hour traffic. It drives fine the rest of the time. I caught it and pulled over before it got too hot last time, but about six months ago it went all the way into the red zone …
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Open Thread – White House Guest Suggestions
Why are Michelle and Barack inviting black rappers who talk about using Uzis on the cops, when they could be inviting nice white hipsters who sing about infanticide? Perhaps you can add some other clean, presentable and articulate guest suggestions in this thread.
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Early Morning Open Thread: Ya Think?
From the Department of Obvious Conclusions: TOKYO — Japan will scrap a plan to obtain half of its electricity from nuclear power and will instead promote renewable energy and conservation as a result of its ongoing nuclear crisis, the prime minister said Tuesday. __ Naoto Kan said Japan needs to “start from scratch” on its …
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Open Thread: The Conventional Wisdom Bottleneck
Interesting little piece by Kevin Carey, in the Washington Monthly, explaining “Why Presidential Races Are so Limited“: … Given the nine percent unemployment rate and the fact that the Democratic incumbent is a liberal black man, many political observers are wondering if the vaunted Republican political machine has slipped a gear. I don’t think that’s …
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Chuck Open Thread
Have at it.
Calling out word strings of stupidity…
This was brilliant–Kthug came out with an excellent explanation of RyanCare: Here’s an analogy: think of Medicare as a footbridge that is deteriorating and will eventually become unsafe. You could propose structural repairs to fix its faults; Ryan doesn’t do that. Instead, he proposes knocking the bridge down and replacing it with trampolines, in the …
Stupid Republican Tricks, High Speed Rail Edition
Can’t say I didn’t feel the schadenfreude reading this: Florida’s governor, Rick Scott..took a verbal whacking from New York and New Jersey lawmakers who had gathered to announce the distribution of $2.2 billion in federal transportation money that was meant for Florida until Mr. Scott, a Republican, snubbed the Obama administration and its proposal to …
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