If there’s going to be a Balloon Juice Book Club, commentor Catclub suggests, then Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland might be a good place to start. I’ll admit that I’ve been avoiding this worthy tome (I did read various excerpts when it first appeared) because it’s 900 pages of stuff I didn’t enjoy living through, and which …
Readership Capture
Reader’s blogs a day early
I’m doing my reader’s blogs a day early, because something very exciting is happening: Can’t Explain will announce its number all-time pop song of all time tomorrow. I also wanted to get this post up before he announces his number 2 song, because that way I am twice as likely to have one of my …
We are all openly gay now
This would have all happened much sooner if Hillary were president: The Senate just voted 63-33 to break the filibuster on the DADT repeal bill. Late Update: Just so we’re clear. This is not the passage of the actual DADT repeal bill. This is the vote that allows a straight majority vote, which will likely …
If Jesus ran for president
I realize I should just accept that Generalisimo Jeebus Galt — who wants to starve the poor, punish retailers who don’t celebrate his birthday loudly enough, invade random countries, and hate teh gay — has nothing in common with the hippie Jesus described in the New Testament. But I still find this kind of thing …
The Bronx is beautiful
This may be my favorite song about the beauty of this nation, but it’s hard to find on YouTube. What’s going on chez vous?
SEC Championship Open Thread
I should have made you pay me to do this.
Open Thread: Candles in the Darkness
So I missed wishing everybody a Happy first night of Chanukah, but commentor J. at J-Two-O gives me a chance to rectify my oversight… __ __ As an animist, and a progressive, I believe in celebrating every possible festival of lights. The Neopagan calendar’s four cross-quarter festivals are Imbolc (candles), Beltane (bonfires), Lammas (hearthfires) and …