Open Threads

The secret ingredient on Iron Chef tonight is lemon, and because the first thing I try to do mentally with every secret ingredient is to try to imagine it as an ice cream, I realize I have never had lemon ice cream. I’ve had lemon ice, and lemon sherbet, but no lemon ice cream. Why is that not sold?

Also, this is pretty awesome:

We also got to meet Barry Eisler, author of the novel Inside Out, who will be with us on the Book Salon on July 3. (Not to give anything away, but Dan Froomkin appears as an FBI Agent, Marcy Wheeler is the antagonist’s ex-wife, I appear as a Director of Information Security, and both Josh Marshall and John Cole are on ex-boyfriend duty.)

COOL.

Open ThreadPost + Comments (74)

Why are Lieberman, Nelson, and the rest of the Senate concern trolls not at the HCR summit? Where is Bart Stupak?

It is telling that the people who did the most to screw up this process and have inordinate power are not even deemed by their peers and their leadership to even be experts on the topic. But there they are, every day, screwing shit up.

HCR Summit ThoughtsPost + Comments (168)

If it is not obvious to anyone with an iq over room temperature that the Republicans want to do nothing but kill any bill, I’m not sure what more it is going to take.

Summit Open ThreadPost + Comments (298)

Noel Coward should sue the flying spaghetti monster for stealing his shit.

***Update***

I asked a Congressional aide recently whether the House would accept a deal where they pass the Senate bill first if Max Baucus promises to man a dunk tank for charity. He laughed, but I wasn’t (completely) joking.

The First Time Was Also A FarcePost + Comments (28)

I think I am ready to shoot that groundhog.

And It Is Snowing AgainPost + Comments (321)

Hammered:

I wish I had more to offer. But if I did, I would make you listen to Fillmore East 71. Mud shark.

Drunk. As. Hell.Post + Comments (96)