Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The reliably brilliant Roy Edroso at the Village Voice: “Rightbloggers Beat Off Charges of Lunacy in Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation, Satanism Remarks”
Sometimes the mark of true artistry is knowing what to leave out… even when it’s just two little letters.
Since watching the Democrats the last couple of weeks has been like watching someone trying to commit suicide by driving their clown car off a cliff but running over their foot before they can get it out of the parking lot, I’m going to take Anne Laurie’s advice and not think about politics today.
I will note that since Virginia has reaffirmed her right to execute the severely mentally handicapped, I’d be worried if I were a tea partier.
From commentor James H:
These two are Evita and Juliet. Last August my cat Persephone got sick and had to be put to sleep. She was only 7 years and I was very upset. I had just moved into a place that allowed pets a month earlier and had Persephone back for the first time in almost 2 years. I decided to go to the local animal shelter to look at kittens and try to cheer myself up – and ended up getting a kitten. Evita is very much the princess. She’s very dainty about everything she does (and has been since she was a kitten). She is very talkative and almost always comes when I call her name. She always seemed lonely, so my girlfriend and I decided we’d look for another cat. We went to a different shelter (they were advertising their Pre-Owned Cat sale, which I thought was clever). Juliet was abandoned by her mother (along with the rest of her litter) and had been bottle-raised from just two days old. She’s very independent and a bit of a tomboy, but she’s also a very sweet kitty. She loves to curl up and try to suckle at my girlfriend’s neck. I took this photo of the two of them when they stopped their constant wrestling matches for a few minutes and pretended to like each other.
I love the movie “Wall Street”, it makes me feel like snorting coke in a SoHo loft, or at least putting on a Talking Heads CD. Sure, Martin gets a little preachy, but Charlie’s perfect as a punk-ass junior banksta. Greed is good, a banksta named after a lizard, so over the top!
What do people think of that new Wall Street movie? It looks awful and yet, I’m anxious to see it.
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Here’s TaMara:
Happy first day of autumn. According to my sources summer officially ended yesterday at 10:55 pm MDT. Sigh. I’ve pulled out the sweaters, but have not put away the shorts. JeffW updated us on Homer yesterday. His cast has been removed. No word yet on his permanent placement…
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On to dinner. This is not a very fall oriented menu, I’ll get to those in later weeks. This menu is a quick and flavorful stir-fry of no particular origin. If you can’t find the broad rice noodles, whatever you like will do just fine. I like the broad ones because they hold the sauce and lots of sesame seeds. I keep sesame seeds around like salt and pepper, so I add that at the table and it’s a nice touch to both the carrots and beef dish. The yogurt and pineapple provide a cool finish.
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On the board tonight:
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1. Spicy Beef & Broccoli
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2. Rice Noodles (broad style)
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3. Sweet & Sour Carrots
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4. Crushed pineapple and vanilla yogurt
Recipes and shopping list at the link.
Blue Dogs! Firebaggers! Glenn Greenwald! Rahm!
Fire away.
Update. Yeah, I find Dems’ decision to punt on the Bush tax cuts profoundly depressing. If I lived in Arizona, I’d vote for Sharron Angle.
E.J. Dionne Jr., in the Washington Post, on a “Tempest in a Very Small Teapot“:
Is the Tea Party one of the most successful scams in American political history?…
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Do the math. For weeks now, our national political conversation has been driven by 86,441 voters and a margin of 5,548 votes. A bit of perspective: When John McCain lost in the 2008 presidential race, he received 59.9 million votes…
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Even in larger states, the Tea Party’s triumphs were built on small shares of the electorate. Rand Paul received 206,986 votes in Kentucky, where there are more than 1 million registered Republicans and nearly 2.9 million registered voters. Sharron Angle won with 70,452 votes in Nevada, a state with more than 1 million registered voters.
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Last April, a New York Times-CBS News poll found that 18 percent of Americans identified as supporters of the Tea Party movement, but slightly less than a fifth of these sympathizers said they had attended a Tea Party rally or meeting. That means just over 3 percent of Americans can be characterized as Tea Party activists. A more recent poll by Democracy Corps, just before Labor Day, found that 6 percent of voters said they had attended a Tea Party rally or meeting…
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And where are the progressives? Sulking is not an alternative to organizing, and weary resignation is the first step toward capitulation. The Tea Party may be pulling a fast one on the country and the media. But if it has more audacity than everyone else, it will, I am sorry to say, deserve to get away with it.
