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Biden

Here’s Joe Biden addressing families brought together by the Tragedy Assistance Program Program for Survivors, a non-profit that helps families and friends of deceased military men and women. I...

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Open Thread: Memorial Day

(Tony Auth via GoComics.com) Here’s to more picnics and fewer wars. But since this is a political blog, Adam Weinstein at Mother Jones has a list of “9 Progressive Vets to Watch in the Ba...

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It ain’t beanbag

Glad to hear this: After nearly two weeks of heated debate over whether President Obama should attack Republican Mitt Romney’s tenure at a private-equity firm, Democratic leaders across the cou...

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More on Wisconsin

I don’t really know what to say about the Wisconsin thing except it seems to originate with this piece by Greg Sargent. I’ll just give you what I’ve read and then my opinion: Top Wi...

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Freedom To Be Ripped Off Is In The Constitution Or Something

Ladies and Gentlemen, my senator, Rand Paul: Under our current FDA laws, FDA says if you want to market prune juice, you can’t say that it cures constipation. You can’t make a health clai...

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Neoliberalism.

This post will necessarily be quite long, so I’m hiding most of it behind a break.  If you don’t like longer posts, you should skip this one. In recent years, there’s been a cu...

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She’s Still Saying Stupid Things

Continuing her all-out effort to shit all over every Wisconsin Democrat, the brain trust at the top of the DNC continues to say idiotic and demoralizing things: Democratic National Committee Chairwom...

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Too Much Time On Their Hands Open Thread

I learn via the igNobel’s Marc Abrahams* of a singular achievement from the great minds at the Max Plankton Institute in the Netherlands.  This result, according to the researchers, “...

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Blind Pigs/Acorns (2) Alan Simpson edition

Via TPM (again): “For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he’ll defeat you,” [Simpson] add...

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Blind Pigs/Acorns (1) George Will edition

Via TPM: “I do not understand the cost-benefit here,” Will said. “The costs are clear. The benefits – what voter is going to vote for him because he’s seen with Donald T...

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Open Thread

Try this for fun.

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The Replacements

In the comments on my post on print newspapers the other day, there was a discussion about people who subscribe to the Sunday paper to get coupons. I don’t subscribe to a Sunday paper, but my h...

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat

From commentor Jnfr: My roses have started blooming! From commentor Marvel: About this time of year I get so caught up in the Full Speed Ahead start of veggie-garden season, I sometimes forget to pau...

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Late Night Open Thread

Just spent an hour lying in bed looking at the ceiling, listening to music, and spooning the girls (even though I am mad at Rosie who, when my mom called during lunch and I went to find the phone, at...

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Local Hero, North Carolina Division

With so many bigots and morans running loose in these here United States, it always comes as a pleasant surprise when the anonymous owner of a company I’ve dealt with turns out to be a mensch: ...

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Help a Brother Out

I’m hosting a picnic on Memorial Day, and I’m going to make two dishes. Everyone else is bringing the booze and the side dishes. The first dish is I am making is a bunch of Hungarian wax ...

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Open Thread

Just got back from a bbq. What is going on here?

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Well you’ve heard about the Boston

Today’s Game Seven between the Sixers and Celtics is the first Game Seven between the two teams since 30 years and two months ago, the legendary “Beat LA” game where the Celtics fan...

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Dog Rescue Bleg – San Fernando Valley

From commentor Feebog: Last week a neighbor, who is also a fellow Director on our local Neighborhood Council, had a stray dog show up at her yard sale. The dog had no tags, but is housebroken and soc...

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Too Hot To Blog Open Thread, plus bonus Kitteh, and the obligatory link to Charlie Pierce

Ponderous here in the Hub of the Universe.  Hot, humid—summer in May. I’m trying to recover and get a bit done while the munchkin naps. But as I make my move, what do I find at my de...

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Junior Pumpkinhead

Alex Pareene dismantles Luke Russert: Tim Russert was not the unalloyed saint of tough journalism that his celebrators describe in posthumous tributes, but he was at least a classic American success ...

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A story about bipartisanship that even I like

From John Waters’ hitchhiking trip (via): Early – and later – in his odyssey, Mr. Waters chanced upon Brett Bidle, 20, a town councilman from Myersville, Md., who was en route to Jo...

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What the Hell is She Thinking?

This kind of stuff makes me want to scream: The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said Friday that if Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) doesn’t prevail over Gov. Scott Walker® ...

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Elephant in a China Shop

Once upon a time, King Juan Carlos of Spain went on an expensive elephant-killing excursion in Africa. Shooting an elephant seems like a really dickish thing to do (unless, of course, the elephant is...

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Es verdad, those Washington bullets again

Finally, an appropriate NPR show, a story about the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala. I know almost nothing about US “anti-communist” involvement in Latin America during the Cold War, most...

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The long happy life of Frances McDormand

The one plus side of NPR 24/7 is that I heard an interesting movie review of the new Wes Anderson movie, Moonrise Kingdom, which has Bruce Willis and Frances McDormand in it, along with the usual Wes...

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Totebag hell

Visiting my parents, so it’s NPR 24/7. Right now, they’ve got Wait Wait Don’t Tell me with freaking P. J. O’ Rourke as a guest. Is it too early to start drinking? Talk about w...

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Corporate / Religious Slogan Mash-Ups, A Turtle Dove Dilemma and Open Thread

Spotted on a service van: There are so many possibilities here: Delighting Customers for Christ Downsizing the Devil with Jesus Paradigm Shift to Salvation Getting Granular in Gethsemane Synergy, Not...

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Everybody’s Coming Home for Lunch These Days

Reader Jerry sent me some links and, ay dios mio, I clicked on one of them at PJ media. The subject is yet another disquisition on how thinking Obama is a bad president doesn’t make the writer ...

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Mitt and The Birther

I thought this video of a birther-curious Rep Mike Coffman screwing the pooch (via) would be worth a watch as you peruse a story about the Donald’s latest birther noises. It’s clear that ...

2 days seit

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