Would not surprise me a bit if the Dodgers take this one and it all comes down to game seven. But Verlander.
Open thread!
This post is in: Open Threads, Sports
Would not surprise me a bit if the Dodgers take this one and it all comes down to game seven. But Verlander.
Open thread!
This post is in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, Goddamned Traitors, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Decline and Fall
Revenant, “a visible ghost or animated corpse that is believed to have revived from death to haunt the living”. Oval Office occupants embracing this undead lie is the scariest story I’ve seen all season…
Chief of Staff John Kelly praises Robert E Lee as "honorable man," says "lack of an ability to compromise led to the civil war," not slavery pic.twitter.com/GSuVRrGKlQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 31, 2017
Three-fifths of my brain remembers there being some sort of compromise at the Constitutional Convention https://t.co/joaFIWwdT9
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 31, 2017
Why the f is John Kelly defending slavers? https://t.co/NqgcVAjAtN
— Josh Busby (@busbyj2) October 31, 2017
Six letter word; starts with an “r” https://t.co/Vcpqqwqfrq
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) October 31, 2017
Been a lot of hemming and hawing over the term "white supremacist." Fools who won't be satisfied until Trump literally lynches someone.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) October 31, 2017
Imagine if Hillary had said, "If you elect Trump the country is actually going to be relitigating the Civil War."
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 31, 2017
When the going gets tough, revert to your base. “States’ RAGHTS!”
Sanders on Robert E Lee: "All of our leaders have flaws, that doesn’t diminish their contributions to our country”
https://t.co/BvLpUU7Sf7— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 31, 2017
It was known as the “blundering generation” theory – radicals on many sides (many sides!) polarized politics, refused to compromise.
— Joshua Zeitz (@JoshuaMZeitz) October 31, 2017
Where we're at: Sarah Sanders leaves lectern to shouts from @AprilDRyan: "Sarah, was slavery wrong?"
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) October 31, 2017
Historians respond to John Kelly’s civil war remarks: "Strange," "sad," "wrong" https://t.co/AaWyztyPJh
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 31, 2017
"Because you don't like history, doesn't mean you can erase it and it didn't happen" – Sarah Sanders on John Kelly's Civil War comments
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) October 31, 2017
she should tell the president https://t.co/M5lCtMjLOL
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) October 31, 2017
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by John Cole| 66 Comments
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Nothing but old people like me sitting on the porch waiting for the young punks to come around:
The annual parade and costume judging contest went off without a hitch, and now for the candy. Good number of kids, but I figgered it best not to take pictures of them and post them online, so all you get is the porch.
They come in swarms like locusts. Not as many teens this year, which is a shame. They should trick or treat, too! Not much else to do around here.
This is still the best costume I have seen this year:
— Christina??♀️ (@hilareolas) October 29, 2017
What are you all up to? Shame about NYC.
by Adam L Silverman| 74 Comments
This post is in: Domestic Politics, Open Threads, Silverman on Security
Here’s the live stream of the NYPD Press Conference regarding the attack/incident on the lower west side earlier this afternoon.
The information regarding today’s attack will likely change over the next 24-36 hours, so keep that in mind.
Open thread.
This post is in: Domestic Politics, Open Threads
Here’s a suitably noir photo that I took the other day down the road:
We’re setting up candy distribution operations in the carport and awaiting the kiddies. We’re giving out mostly Skittles this year. I bought them because I don’t like Skittles and therefore won’t be tempted to eat any leftovers.
Getting reports on my phone that something terrible happened in New York City, possibly a truck killing multiple pedestrians, but early accounts are sketchy. Stay safe everyone.
by DougJ| 208 Comments
This post is in: Movies
I thought of a fun game. Name your seven all-time favorite movie experiences — the movie, when you saw it (approximately), who you saw it with, where you saw it.
Should be in a theater and it doesn’t have to be your favorite movies. Most of my favorite movies I saw the first time on VHS back in the day and usually the first cut is deepest.
Here’s mine:
1. “Tootsie”, Christmas Eve 1982, Copley Plaza, Boston, with my grandfather and uncle.
2. “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, 1986, Hamilton, NY, with my friend Jim.
3. “Pulp Fiction”, opening night 1994, California Theatre, Berkeley, a big group of friends.
4. “McCabe and Mrs. Miller”, 1995 or so, Solano Theater, Albany, CA, with my friend Ben.
5. “Murmur of Youth”, 1997, Pacific Film Archives Berkeley, with my friend Vlada.
6. “The Departed”, 2006, some theater in Manhattan, with my friend Maryann.
7. “Nashville”, 2013, Dryden Theater, Rochester, NY with my wife.
I really love movies so I’ll throw in some more.
Best double features: “Glengarry Glen Ross”/”Reservoir Dogs” and “Sunset Boulevard”/”In A Lonely Place”.
Best theaters: Paramount Theater, Oakland and Castro Theater, San Francisco.
In some ways, I think my most intense movie experiences were “Chinatown” (on VHS) and “Vertigo”, which I saw by myself, I can’t remember on VHS or in a theater. I just remember the movie! I also can’t remember where I first saw “The Wild Bunch”.
Anyway, what’s your magnificent seven?
by DougJ| 159 Comments
This post is in: Assholes, I wish a motherfucker would!
This is a scary time politically. Trump may fire Mueller and if he does, it’s unlikely that Republicans in Congress will do anything about it. I think this would hurt Republicans a lot politically, but it would also be a major setback for the rule of law, and that would be bad. So I half wish a motherfucker would fire Mueller and half wish a motherfucker wouldn’t.
The best thing would be is if Republicans were scared out of blindly backing Trump by brutal electoral realities. A lot of places have odd-year local elections coming up a week from Tuesday. If you have one, please vote in it. Vote Democrat down the line even if your local Democrats are awful. I don’t normally recommend this, to the contrary I think party politics are very different at the local level, but in this case, we need as much evidence as possible of a looming Democratic tidal wave to send a message to Republicans in Congress.
Giving money to Dems running for federal races helps too. You can donate here to a fund that is distributed equally to the eventual Democratic nominee in House districts currently held by Republicans.
And you know what would really scare Republicans? A victory for Doug Jones in Alabama. You can give him money here.
We’re sacred and bound to suffer this heatwavePost + Comments (159)