In case your day needs some cuteness, foster puppies! Friend of mine, LFern, is fostering…again. She and the rest of the Fern family have been very successfully fostering this past year (since losing their beloved Kodiak). Doing the foster dog thing again. This time I have a mama and 8 puppies. There were 9, but …
I can see for miles and miles
I like to try to keep an eye on what’s going on in the world of right-wing media and blogs, but I find reading Fox, let alone, Breitbart, just too soul-crushing to do on a regular basis. I read alicublog and I’ve started following Will Sommer on twitter (he’s the guy who had all the …
Ain’t too proud to beg
Jon Ossoff is polling well ahead of the Republicans in the jungle primary in GA-6 and polls show him neck-and-neck in the general. This would be a big win for Dems and would scare the shit out of the Republicans in Congress. So make it rain.
Jared Kushner’s “SWAT Team”: Early Contender for Dumbest Idea of the Week
Kushner: "The government should be run like a great American company." This is a harbinger of a doomed initiative. https://t.co/tS7Q1T2PY4 — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) March 27, 2017 I admit that’s a high bar in these turbulent days, but this new Trumpstunt is such a shining stinking exemplar of every half-bright, wholly-dishonest sackful of grift …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: The End of the Beginning
ok it is time again for that wiener dog running happily on the baseball field it is spring training season so here is that wiener dog for u pic.twitter.com/09M40HcCWB — darth™ (@darth) March 25, 2017 A BFD win, if we can keep it — and for once, it looks like we just might. Per the …
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So now what?
So now what? That is a hell of a question but I think the right way to start probing towards some of boundaries of the possibility space is to ask what happened. As I see it, the winning coalition that blocked the bill was a combination of unanimous Democratic opposition plus state level Republicans who …
On The Road
Good Morning All, This weekday feature is for Balloon Juicers who are on the road, travelling, etc. and wish to share notes, links, pictures, stories, etc. from their escapades. As the US mainland begins the end of the Earth day as we measure it, many of us rise to read about our friends and their …