Tue 09 February, 2010

05:30 This Is Hilarious» Mercury Rising 鳯女
Seems that, after spending the last week attacking the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll that polled the opinions of Republicans, FOX News has decided to cite data from that poll in order to support an argument that Chris Wallace was making — namely, that Sarah Palin has a shot at the GOP nomination: Of course, FOX was [...]
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04:38 Your Tea Party Coverage Won't Get You Into Heaven» First Draft
Something that bugged me all day yesterday is the idea that this nonstop tea party convention coverage was some kind of attempt to no longer ignore all those rich white middle-aged folks who've been ignored for so long in American...
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03:28 Your Modern GOP» A Spork in the Drawer
BushCheney Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has an an apparently autobiography book out in which he discusses the 2008 economic collapse. Daniel Gross reports: Paulson has little positive to say about other Republicans. Sarah Palin annoyed him from the get-go. When...
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03:16 A Ford, Not A Lincoln» A Spork in the Drawer
Jiminy Christmas but Harold Ford is a dope: "I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too," Ford said. "Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running." Let's unpack...
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02:57 Sexist Bowl» Dohiyi Mir
Athenae and Echidne watched the ads. Sadly, I'm sure Sam'll get plenty exposure to that shit growing up, TV or not, as we continue soaking in the patriarchy... ntodd
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02:13 Wow. I guess it's props to Mrs. Greenspan.» Dependable Renegade
She takes both Sarah Palin AND the unctuous, sexist Chuck Todd to the woodshed, of sorts. Andrea Mitchell mocked Sarah Palin on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" Monday morning by appearing on-air with notes written on her hand. ... "Daily Rundown" co-host...
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01:05 The Ewok Celebration Song – Celebrate the Love!» Ark's Ark
It appears that the Ewoks have been roped in to be the mascots of what passes for Valentine’s Day celebrations over in Star Wars Galaxies. Is it a rule over there that every festival has to be tied to a furry humanoid? Folks are still trying to lose the pounds they gained during the Wookie [...] The Ewok Celebration Song – Celebrate th
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00:37 Carry On Apologizing» Best of Both Worlds
An interesting statement via the Saudi Press Agency from veteran Saudi politician Prince Turki Al-Faisal, currently the Chairman of King Faisal Center for Islamic Research and Studies, and once mistakenly reported by an incompetent blogger (this one) as possibly being dead . Anyway, there's a chain of events that goes at least back to the Isra
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Mon 08 February, 2010

23:37 Dodge Fail» First Draft
I am attempting to imagine the female version of that ad. Something like: I will make your favorite meal every night, regardless of whether meat loaf makes me want to vomit. I will raise your children, nurse them through countless...
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22:03 Random Question» A Spork in the Drawer
Just when the hell did spelling the word "lose" l-o-o-s-e become so goddamned common? I understand that English (especially American English) is a malleable language but at some point it just becomes functional illiteracy. .
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21:12 We're Forgetting Poland» A Spork in the Drawer
The Shrill One gets shrill: A brief history lesson: In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Polish legislature, the Sejm, operated on the unanimity principle: any member could nullify legislation by shouting “I do not allow!” This made the nation...
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20:49 Follow The Money» A Spork in the Drawer
Our Betters are miffed: But this year [JP Morgan] Chase’s political action committee is sending the Democrats a pointed message. While it has contributed to some individual Democrats and state organizations, it has rebuffed solicitations from the national Democratic House...
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20:13 When Lupicas Attack!» Multi Medium
I don’t think Mike is very impressed by Ex-Semi-Governor Palin: Now there are many, many ways Sarah Palin could help this country. Running for President will never be one of them. You listen to her long enough and actually feel yourself getting dimmer by the minute, like a dying light bulb. If her vision [...]
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19:55 Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Dolchstosslegende II edition» First Draft
Good morning everyone! Well, since apparently people can't remember back any further than a year ago, the Repubs are doing well in all the Rasmussen polls (imagine that!) and teabaggy hope and change is in the air for them. What...
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17:48 That Recession Ever'body Keeps Sayin' Is Over? Donchew B'leev It!» The Well-Armed Lamb
We are ALL "Sub-primates" now! Per The HousingWire : Monday, February 8th, 2010, 9:50 am The performance of US prime jumbo loan performance within residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) slipped again in January as serious delinquencies (60+ days past due) rose for the 32nd consecutive month and edged closer to 10%, according to the late
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15:36 AIYEEEEEEEEEE!!!!» Rising Hegemon
The grudge-fucking-est nightmare fueled relationship possible! I talked to a cab driver this morning and he was truly alarmed and upset about this (though not as much as the deficit). THE HORROR, THE HORROR... Harvard professor, hedge-fund millionaire, and "court historian for the imperial American hard right" Niall Ferguson is leaving his w
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15:21 Echidne is right» Rising Hegemon
This year's Super Bowl ads (as has become the norm) were an incredible mix of women as ball-crushing harpies who rob men of there ability to have fun and enjoy life...paired without irony with commercials that did show men having fun and when they do, they are portrayed as GIGANTIC idiots. Juxtaposed with the occasional commercial that had women
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15:16 Great Lost Singles of the 60s (Special Rich Little Edition)» PowerPop
Okay, this has basically nothing to do with the theme of this here blog, but I've always liked it so I thought I'd share. So, from the summer of '67, please enjoy Spyder Turner 's version of Ben E. King 's oft-covered "Stand By Me." Complete with vocal impressions of Sam Cooke , Eddie Kendricks , James Brown and several other greats of soul
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15:00 Living up to Stereotype» Rising Hegemon
Here's an attendee at the Teabagger Jamboree this weekend dressed up as a founding father -- and go figure on who he chooses to be : And yes, Button Gwinnett is the PERFECT choice for this crowd : Gwinnett organized an invasion of British East Florida. Due to the convening of the legislature, Gwinnett was unable to lead the troops him
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13:34 Oh, good idea Lord!» Rising Hegemon
Yeah, everybody getting together at Blair House and chatting amongst themselves (before the cameras) will mean the GOP will get on that health care train. In the words of Sarah Palin's hand, 'You Bet-cha'.
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13:31 Kind of Disappointed» Rising Hegemon
I had seen via Twitter (again, when not over-critical, always ultra-reliable) that Conan was supposed to be in that ad with Letterman and Oprah, but that Jay had replaced him at the last minute. Aside from being a funny notion, the script would have made no sense...and it turned out to be not true...how dare twitterers lie to me!
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13:27 I have to say» Rising Hegemon
I was incredibly disappointed in the half-time performance of the Kitties, though they spent a lot of money on the stage and the laser light-show, those things just laid there. It sucked.* (*just going by what the Twitterati tell me, because those people are never over-critical of ANYTHING!)
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13:23 Golly New York» Rising Hegemon
You're starting to make Illinois Governors look like the souls of discretion .
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13:16 As noted Cultural Critics» Rising Hegemon
Tom Shales and Watertiger noticed last night, it was pretty cool that Betty White completely upstaged the rather lame Tebow ad last night.
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12:50 We Are The Champions» First Draft
It's been an amazing 24 hours in New Orleans. We elected a good and competent man, Mitch Landrieu, as Mayor in a landslide. And the Saints won the Super Bowl. I missed the Super Bowl crack van but was there...
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12:10 CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT HANNITY WOULD SAY IF AL GORE WORE ANOTHER COUNTRY'S FLAG PIN?» RADAMISTO
(h/t Glenn Greenwald ) I didn't notice this but the WaPo did : 2) She wore a fitted black suit, black hose and high black platform heels. She had on three opera-length strands of pearls, two white and one multi-colored. In her lapel, a small pin with two flags -- for Israel and the United States.
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11:34 Insurance In Name Only» cab drollery
David Lazarus' most recent column in the Los Angeles Times is entitled "When healthcare coverage is insurance in name only." No, he's not writing about some fly-by-night scam preying on working class people. He's talking about the highly rated for-profit health insurance company Anthem (Blue Cross) which last week announced double digit premium
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11:30 America's most influential think tank» Rising Hegemon
Yesterday, during lulls in Puppy Bowl VI I caught some of the pre-Super Bowl festivities on CBS. And for the second straight straight year President Obama was interviewed by a television anchor, this time Katie Couric. And, oh, how Katie managed to concern troll like a true Villager --via the same source used so long and reliably by Tom Fried
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09:39 I APOLOGIZE TO CHRIS WALLACE» RADAMISTO
He's not a dunce . I caught another tiny bit of his interview with Palin and he seems to have acted like a journalist instead of like Hannity. Here's the bit: WALLACE: What do you think of Barack Obama's presidency so far? PALIN: He has some misguided decisions that he is making that he is expecting us to just kind of sit down and shut up and
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08:41 THE CONSERVATIVES ARE GOING FULL ALEX JONES» RADAMISTO
Alex Jones is a prominent conspiracy theorist who has his own radio show and a few wacky websites like Prison Planet and InfoWars . Glenn Beck's all-encompassing theory of the evil of progressives seems to encourage the rubes to believe almost any nonsense. On Cunningham's show, one caller asserted that health care reform is really just a form
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