Thursday, September 24 is National Punctuation Day! Please mark you’re calendars.
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open thread.
Hi ho silver lining
I want some of whatever Sully is smoking today:
Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but one effect Obama has had on the right is to galvanize its small government, balanced budget wing and cool off the Christianist boilerplate. I haven’t noticed the tea-partiers going on and on about gays getting married for example, or cracking down on drugs. Yes, abortion remains an issue for some – but it is hardly front and center. And yes, there are the Dobbsian slights at illegal immigrants. But again, this is a minor theme. All of this, to my mind, could be healthy in the long run. Heaven knows what else would have pushed the GOP off its theocratic rails, but Obama’s cultural conciliation has worked in a way. Economics is again the focus. And a small-government party that is not just an expression of cultural panic could conceivably wrestle its way out of the Bush legacy in time.
Of course, the right is a large coalition; and I’m not saying that the tea-partiers wouldn’t accept any number of anti-gay moves if they won back power with the religious right. Many are anti-gay, but many who aren’t accept the demonization of gays as the price to pay for political power in such a coalition. Nonetheless, to see the parties re-orient around the critical questions of the size and role of government is encouraging. More encouraging than distant wars in countries we occupy indefinitely and constitutional amendments to curtail civil equality.
Open Thread
Nothing I am interested in talking about, to be honest. I have better things to do than argue with folks that no, just because some folks at Reason and Malkin’s site have a gut feeling that eleventy billion people showed up at the protests this weekend, that doesn’t make it fact.
Open Thread
Back home, and spent the day with my dog.
Does anyone know of a program like Song Sergeant, but for windows?
Give ’em enough thread
I don’t know if it’s the obsession with politics I’ve developed over the past five years, but I’ve grown to despise the Redskins. I now root for the Giants and Cowboys — two other teams I hate — when they play against the Skins (EDIT: and only when they play the Redskins).
Consider this an open thread.
CBS Sunday Morning
Saturday Night Late Night Open Thread
I may or may not have had a bunch of cocktails.
I do, however, miss my dog. I bet I have called my folks 20 times in the last 36 hours to check on her.
This thread is for 80’s music. Or else.