And then there were two (plus guest bloggers galore)
Paul “Deacon” Mirengoff has dumped his Power Line bloviation gig rather than lose his cushy partnership at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
Power Line lets their readers know that Paul is dead:
As you probably know, Paul Mirengoff has taken a leave from blogging and has, for now anyway, resigned from the Power Line masthead. We’ve decided to fill the hole left by Paul’s departure by recruiting a series of guest posters.
Actually, if Power Line readers blinked, they missed Mirengoff’s departure. Short, and undoubtedly pre-approved by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld who will be watching Mr. Mirengoff more closely in the future, especially given Assrocket’s “for now anyway” tease.
Not available: links to all of the Native American ass kissing Mirengoff had to do to keep his phony baloney job.
City Pages also rips Katherine Kersten for her obsession with the sex habits of Yalies, but fails to tie her latest prudish crusade to her hanging out with the Power Line crowd, a determined bunch of radically conservative Dartmouthians.
Also, TBogg.
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Pawlentyism: one strike and you’re out (unless you’re a Republican).
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Egypt:
Chris Hedges on corruption and force
Egyptian income inequality not as bad as it is in the USA
Roy Edroso on wingnuts on Egypt
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Slowing the ever upwards redistribution of wealth:
Ohio judges require attorneys to verify legitimacy of foreclosures (and a great wailing arose….)
OK, I thought I would find more links proving things are getting better.
My bad.
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The rest of the atrocities:
Undercover cops in AZ tell dealers they can’t legally buy guns, no problemo!
New Hampshire seeks to disenfranchise college students (but ALL college students have PICTURE IDs!)
Greenpeace blimp checks out Kochfest 2011 [more]
You do have to wonder if any non-whites have ever tried to blow up an American church, synagogue or mosque [more]
40,000 intelligence violations since 9/11, and that’s just the FBI!
Vatican can’t be bothered by accountability (now bring me that altar boy! No, not that one — the deaf one)
Profiling a talk radio listener
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I’ve given up on wondering why we can’t build affordable housing, and am now just trying to figure out why builders worked so hard to develop unsafe housing.
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Chuck Schumer’s moving to ban certain kinds of bath salts accused of getting people “high.”
Shouldn’t he first have to prove that bath salts are more harmful than alcohol?
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Etc.:
“O” — not only was it written by a McCain campaign staffer, but the NYTimes’ reviewer says it sucks
Scroll down for best Mustache of Understanding pic ever
As Oscars approach, I find myself in possession of 7 of the Top 10 Downloaded Movies of the Week
Salon ties Charlie Sheen down and beats the bottoms of his feet with an old police report
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Get well wishes for Glenn Greenwald who’s come down with a case of dengue fever.
That’s gotta suck.
Witth regards to dengue, they say with if you feel like you’re going to die, it means you’re getting better. If you feel fine, get to the hospital.
I’m loving how Israel’s all shocked by America’s “betrayal” when support for a dictator is withdrawn after decades. Pity that Iraq thing hasn’t worked out.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/us-egypt-israel-usa-idUSTRE70U53720110131
Second paragraph: ouch. I remember so well having many discussions with friends, prior to 2008 election, about how we didn’t like the individual mandate, and that was a strong reason to vote for Obama. He blew a huge, generational, sea-change chance to just let everybody buy into Medicare that wanted to. Public option was the way to go then, and it still is now. The problem we have is a health insurance problem (not health care). The insurance industry just needs to go away (give it 5, 8, 10, 15 years … whatever. But we need to be on a glide path to turn health care into a utility that everybody is taxed for, and everybody uses. Otherwise, you’re turning diabetes, cancer, spina bifida, brain injuries, prenatal care, etc. into yet another opportunity for fat CEO fucks to make money off of the suffering of their neighbors).
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/31/judge-uses-obamas-words-against-him/
Raimondo shoots and scores:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/01/30/the-hosni-mubarak-fan-club/