I think I’ve made it clear over the years that I hang out in some of the seedier places online. This screenshot is from the RSS feed of “books” available for downloading at one of those sites.
Usually these lists are a total hodgepodge, running off in all directions at once, but this batch seems to have a theme. No, I don’t think the same person uploaded the Harlequins and the Playboys.
I also didn’t download any of these even though Entity Framework 4 in Action sounded pretty exciting.
Mark Dayton will be the first Minnesota governor ever to attend the Twin Cities’ annual Pride parade tomorrow. Part of the festivities will include lighting up the new I-35 bridge in rainbow colors. [picture]
This in a state where gays can’t marry. Government by some people, for some people and of some people, some of whom get to decide who’s “real” and who’s not. Wouldn’t treating everyone the same be a lot easier?
This is not the party of Barry Goldwater. Today’s Republicans worship at the altar of Jim Crow and Strom Thurmond.
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The evil that men do:
Rick Scott Walkerism [more] [more] [UPDATE: more]
Hitler and Stalin, together again
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Hugo Chavez is confined to a hospital with a mystery illness.
If it’s ever proven that this was some kind of CIA douchebag assassination attempt, I think I will have to finally consider giving up my citizenship. It’s just too hard to see the overlap between what I believe and this country does.
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Scott Rosenberg on links, revisions and error buttons:
A piece without links is like a story without the names of its sources. Every link tells a reader, “I did my research. And you can double-check me.”
There are countless ways the internet can improve the news, but improving the news isn’t really part of anyone’s agenda, at least not in newsrooms.
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Etc.:
The more invincible we get, the less it seems to make a difference
Masnick on how copyright law cost Waxy $32.5k
Not only do we not have single payer, we still don’t have sane laws regulating resident abuse
How labels make life hell for their artists
And some sports trivia:
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A wonderful actor. I’m sorry I “outgrew” Columbo as I can recall few TV shows I loved more as a kid.
Had to go to the same state building with that money as the one yesterday that consumed a great part of my day with finding parking and then finding my car again (the hills north of the Capitol are a rabbit’s warren of short, twisting streets and yes, I got lost). Today went better because I knew to avoid the construction (fleeting knowledge that will be of little use next week), still, I messed up.
I couldn’t get the state parking lot machine to take my quarters. While inside making my payment I told a security guard who then trudged outside to see wtf? Ran into him in the lot as I was leaving and he pointed out to me that the machine worked, but that I hadn’t read the instructions.
No, you cannot simply insert money into the state’s parking lot thingamajig, you have to program it before it will accept your coins and even then it takes its sweet time letting you insert the money.
What kind of parking lot machine has a guard plate on the money slot that moves aside after you feed in your space number?
Minnesota’s bureaucracy is far too stable and unaccountable and no, that’s not the sole fault of the DFL, not after all the Republican guvs we’ve had. Hell, the woman I gave the money to was wearing a Callista Gingrich hairdo right down to the platinum color. Talk about scary….
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Minnesota is shutting down next week. The Republicans are demanding that Gov. Dayton lock himself in a room with the Republican leadership. Mostly for show but also because I think they foolishly believe a weak man can’t be as stubborn as rabid ideologues who will compromise so long as no taxe rates are raised.
Nevermind that it’s kind of hard to dig yourself out of Gov. Bridgefail’s $6 billion shortfall without raising taxes on someone, and Dayton is graciously raising it on his fellow rich only. Not acceptable to the teabagging Republicans who run this state, and who think they’ve spotted more fees they could raise in lieu of taxes. In any event, the shutdown now has its own blog.
They really are the worst people in the world. How they refrain from putting Confederate flags on their pickups while whistling Dixie, I’ll never know.
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I was late to it after taking a day off, and, as Lambert reports, there’s some controversy over Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone piece on Michele Bachmann:
There’s a good inside-baseball journalism controversy firing up over a Rolling Stone piece by Matt Taibbi on Michele Bachmann. It isn’t kind, by any means. But that isn’t the issue. What is is that a lot of it seems cribbed from serious reporting done by bloggers like Karl Bremer, Ken Avidor and Bill Prenderghast at Dump Bachmann and/or Ripple in Stillwater, and a couple of features by MinnPost contributor G.R. Anderson while working for City Pages. Abe Sauer at The Awl (Be Less Stupid) runs a long post laying out for his national audience who has done the best work on Our Favorite Congresswoman’s career:
However as that may be, the important thing is to share. Getting credit is the least important part of things. Keeping Michele Bachmann from the White House? That’s more important than keeping Ghaddafi from getting nukes (well, at least as important, anyway). [CP has more] [and Max Sparber with still more on Bachmann]
Click on the Lambert link for more on Stillwater’s fullest. And, if you click, check out the final bit on Fraters Libertas’s dive into revisionist history. I chide Lambert for linking to them, but in this case the disconnect is canyonesque. I grew up Republican in Iowa and there is no rehab for Hoover other than his Jimmy Carter-style post-presidency. He screwed up and everyone know it except for those who’ve retrained their brains.
I swear, if they weren’t Confederates in conservatives’ clothing, I’d be likening these revisionists to Stalin on a daily basis. Daily? You know, as fast as these characters lie, maybe we need a three-day news cycle with every third day devoted to debunking the first two day’s hysterical rightwing news releases….
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Shocker: Hans von Spakovsky lied about voter fraud!
More amazing, a professor seems to have established that there has only been one case of fraud involving someone voting as someone else in the last forty years, and if you click the link you’ll see how “special” that case actually was.
Not an issue, not a threat to democracy, but the cures could kill us. Also, I did not know that Rick Perry chaired Al Gore’s Texas campaign when Al ran for president in 1988, but that certainly reinforces my opinions of both men.
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Etc.:
My favorite computing platform continues to devolve into a rabid cess pool of approval-seeking assholes
WIRB runs another one of Vick’s podcasts
Back to the future (be sure to take note of the publication date)
Maybe the only reason to get cable
Why Pottermore should scare the shit out of book publishers AND Amazon
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OK, back to other stuff now, but at least I’ll average seven posts again this week.
Yesterday just kept getting crazier and then I got sucked into the NBA draft. I’m pretty much tossing yesterday’s links but I do like this screen grab of what appears to be a prison boxing team, and yes, the L.A. Times used these guys to represent the nonviolent offenders who’re about to be released due to overcrowding in California prisons.
The media grow more and more shameless, huckstering their views like they were selling term life insurance. For the life of me, I don’t know why they think they can get away with such blatant whoringmongering. I mean, it’s not like we don’t have laws in this country….
I have to admit that this is not a very fair cartoon. The Supreme Borks are not owned by Wal-Mart. Big Pharma owns a much bigger chunk of them, but a true representation of their controlling special interests would require a NASCAR jacket. [related]
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I heard something about us eventually leaving Afghanistan. Seems like I’ve heard that before somewheres.
Elsewhere from dejavuistan:
Republicans incapable of compromise
Some stale Taibbi
Eliminationism, cont.
Decriminalizing pot this time maybe for sure possibly
Ezra Klein outed as a useful tool
Robert Greenwald takes apart the Kochs
No fresh fruit, but plenty of rotting vegetables (and fruit)
Also stale but of possible interest: Sarah Palin’s pitbull blogger hasn’t been heard from since she trash talked Bristol and half the Republican party last month.
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Etc.:
It didn’t take long for a jury of my homestate peers to convict that smirking psycho brat from St. Louis Park
Still haven’t dug into Manning Marable’s book on Malcolm X, but apparently he alleges that Detroit Red swung both ways
Oft glbt-picketed homophobic reggae star Buju Banton gets 10 years for cocaine
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This could be interesting, and not just because a friend is one of the dancers.
Short post because I’ve got another busy day ahead of me but this one will be made all the more exciting by my getting to carry a large sum of someone else’s money for a brief while before I give it to someone else.
Still exhausted from my 25 minutes of civic involvement, with a very busy morning ahead of me. Links later, maybe this afternoon.
I attended a community planning meeting tonight. I’d had it on my calendar for over a month after seeing this notice:
City staff have created a comprehensive plan for Raymond Avenue traffic calming and we want your feedback! Join us to see the latest updates and let us know what you think before the City finalizes the plan and construction begins.
Traffic calming is the combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior and improve conditions for non-motorized street users.
Join us on the 22nd at the South St. Anthony Park Rec Center (890 Cromwell Ave) to weigh in on this important project one last time before construction begins next year.
That’s the whole thing. Maybe this was enough of a clue for you but the words “traffic calming” always terrify me, and I made it a point to attend to make sure they weren’t talking about a traffic circle/roundabout, the world’s most confusingly evil form of cyclists’ revenge on motorists.
The evening didn’t start well. I went to the wrong community rec center. I discovered there are two of them within six blocks of my place (who knew?). I was maybe four minutes late arriving at the 7 pm meeting and it was already going and in full control mode. The agenda was on the whiteboard next to a huge map that didn’t look to me like it included a roundabout, but questions were verboten until 8:00 so I got to sit through the rest of the going around the room introducing yourself thing. I was pleased that over half the people said they lived on Raymond Avenue, which allayed many of my fears that this was a St. Anthony Park cyclists’ thing (most of the money and nice bikes in my ‘hood live at least a block off Raymond).
I then got to sit through a woman explaining the agenda (but without any salient details of the project) who then yielded to a committee member who let us know how much time they’d put into this thing. He was followed by a traffic engineer who also did not explain the project but who then yielded to another engineer who did explain the project in sufficient detail that by 7:25 I was able to flee the room and go home, no roundabouts having been mentioned.
I never needed to be there, but rule #1 in Minnesota seems to be that those who set the agendas don’t share them until you’ve sat long enough to prove your bona fides. All I ever wanted was a simple answer to one direct question: will there be any fucking roundabouts?
I went online after coming home and did find a BWCCAP document that explained the project in such excruciating technical detail that I don’t think I could have figured it out, there being no map. For the map you had to go to the meeting. I will give the document credit, however, for letting me know that BWCCAP stands for Bike Walk Central Corridor Action Plan, a name that still sends chills down my spine when I hear it.
There was a nice lady by the door and on my way out. I asked her how I could have found out about this had I not noticed that blog post. Her answers didn’t reassure me and I consider myself lucky to have heard about this.
Here’s how I would do these things:
The main thing is #2. The more you post community planning info online, the more people will see it and be informed. Forcing people to attend meetings to find out stuff is NOT democracy in action, it’s the tyranny of the involved who demand that you spend time sitting on a folding chair before they tell you what’s up.
I acknowledge that those who want input should have to sit on folding chairs, but those who just want to know wtf is up should be able to do so without jamming into a small room (literally every chair was taken).
No, I didn’t think you’d be interested in this, but I’m posting it because it speaks to the mentality of how things get done in Minnesota. It’s small “d” damnation: damned if you do, and doubly damned if you don’t because you really can’t trust your neighbors not to do insanely crazy shit.
The faster government puts everything online, the quicker citizens will actually be empowered. Sitting through a meeting where no one gets to talk until the decisions have been thoroughly explained is not democracy, it’s the few controlling the more than a few while the vast majority sit at home not even aware there’s a meeting going on. Decisions like this should have the support of hundreds of people, not a few dozen.
Given that digital is next to free, every public meeting should be recorded and posted online. And that city neigbhorhood page? By law each meeting should be cited there in advance and then the minutes and video posted reasonably soon thereafter. And if the city has to buy a new server every year or so, that’s a cheap price for having a video record of who said what when.
Online data = democracy. People crowded into a small room isn’t democracy, it’s something else altogether.
But mostly, thank god they’re not putting a roundabout in my backyard!
Ran into an SEIU community organizer yesterday and was delighted to find out that internally at least, support for the CTUL strategy of picketing Cub was far from unanimous. And that even SEIU members think the SEIU poaches on other unions. This canvasser was even in agreement with my longstanding crank views regarding the DFL endorsement process.
And yes, I’d already signed the petition so this wasn’t just someone being polite to an old geezer. The truth sets us free (and fucks them up something fierce). The left wins when transparency is ubiquitous and citizens have expectations of being properly informed, fairly compensated, but otherwise left alone.
We even talked about the irony of two national gay rights activists “manning” up and leading the hijab charge at RightOnline [background], avenging their Muslim sisters (when the real breakthrough was the support these women received from cops who are still here in town whereas Choi and Aravosis are back on the right coast by now). [more from Weigel] The real losers there, of course, were the black-hearted bastards who make little girls cry.
In other labor news, even the major news media “gets” that the Supreme Borks Wal-Mart decision is bad, bad, bad news. Labor could fix this one. All they have to do is pass the tin cup among themselves then have Trumpka declare that the AFL-CIO will provide or pay for attorneys for any woman who wants to sue Wal-Mart. No class action suit? Let tens of thousand of individual suits bloom, then watch as Wal-Mart’s CFO faints at the cost of fielding lawyers in that many cases.
Not to mention how the next unionization vote at a Wal-Mart would go.
You can’t really organize minimum wage workers, but you can take their side and help them win enough battles to eventually become unionized. You do this by fighting the real power, not each other.
More:
The Fraudulent 32: Corporations that spent more on executive salaries than on income taxes
End game in Wisconsin [WiscGOoP tools are MN-made] [more on how Rick Scott Walkerism is about siding with big money to squash the little folks] [10,000 cheeseheads who'll never vote Republican again]
The less you know, the easier it is to have an opinion
NOW v AARP (incredibly, NOW appears to be right for a change)
And now you’re ready for Ian Welsh on Strategies for Resistance and Change, a great link Tild left in the links.
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Behold the power of regulation to improve our lives through better access to needed information:
Deborah Jourdan just can’t stomach the menu at California Pizza Kitchen anymore. But the problem is not the price or the food. It’s the calories.
“I looked at the menu, and it said there were 1,100 calories in a plate of pasta,” the 22-year-old North Hollywood resident said. Salads can run 1,400 calories or more. Pizza? Up to 1,500. That was earlier this year, and she hasn’t been back since.
“I don’t think I’d go back there now,” said Jourdan, eating a salad and a cookie at Panera Bread in Burbank, “because I’d be afraid there would be nothing for me to eat.”
Republicans fought calories on menus tooth and nail. Why? By year’s end every national chain will have to post calorie counts for each menu item. This will force ruthless chains to clean up their menus or go out of business. Those TGIF specials did taste great — most dishes with 40-60 fat grams in them do.
The best part? Idiots (and foundry workers) who crave super-high calorie meals will end up frequenting locally owned establishments.
Win, win, win. Only the soulless suits lose this time around. Cue the gnashing of Republican teeth (the leadership only: the rank and file will embrace this even as America finally starts to slim down).
Meanwhile, some battles we didn’t/won’t win:
Borks to decide whether medical diagnostic tests can be patented (because your doctor should have to pay someone every time he/she puts a hand on your forehead)
FDL on the United States of Bass-Ackwardia
More on Clarence Thomas’s open door corruption
Another day, another funeral to picket
It’s only a fine, the bastards are aren’t going to prison [more from masaccio]
Politifact jives, then reluctantly acknowledges their error (but doesn’t retract) [but hey, try googling this one just to see if anyone on the right picked up on Politifact's erroneous verdict]
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Spite. Paying $300 million per execution would be a good example of it.
Millions to execute, but not a fucking dime for schools, health care or other socialist drivel.
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Etc.:
Respect: it’s something you can make people give you
Five years to grow a sirloin steak doesn’t sound like a solution to me
TBogg reviews Bristol’s new book
An Emmy for Sarah Palin’s Alaska?
You can set yourself on fire and not make the national news, but if you’re lucky, the local newspaper will publish your 15-page suicide note on our new debtors prisons [John Amato on another curious media blackout]
Blotter art (verrry trippy)
Everything is a Remix, part 3(must viewing for copyright haters and defenders)
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Obama speaks tonight.
One_outer on Beyond Netroots Nation:
It was in speaking with fellow rank and file netroots types that I soon realized what was really going on at this conference. The dominant theme of the conference was not chosen, intended, or likely desired by any of the organizers. It wasn’t discussed by any of the panels or speakers I saw. Instead, it was in the halls, in the questions, and on the lips of those without an exhibitor, speaker, or media badge.
The unofficial theme of this conference was of a movement at a crossroads, with a choice between our most deeply cherished principles and our understandable concern in accidentally empowering an insane and openly fascist Republican Party over a corrupt, ideologically conservative, and fully propagandized Democratic Party. [cont'd.]
Everywhere at NN11 there were media consultants, organizing consultants, all manner of firms doing everything from polling to new media. All for campaigns, parties and anyone else that can afford them. I wrote about some of these folks yesterday. They are not capable of questioning the rationale of the campaigns they work on because the system works for them. Anything you want, just organize for a candidate and work hard enough and it can happen. Magic thinking, all self serving, and almost all genuinely self deceiving as opposed to knowingly misrepresenting the electoral choices we have every two years.
These professional political types are well on their way to full commodification of progressive politics for their own gain, as the elite gatekeepers of progressive votes, volunteer hours, and wallets. These folks, whether they realize it personally or not, see all the progressives that aren’t them as part of their business model. In their business model what is in our best interest is what works for them and their employers – any other view is unserious and bound to help the scary Republicans.
The professional class in DC sees a world in which there is no alternative, a world in which our goals and salvation runs through them and only through them. And they’re panicking – they know they’re losing us and don’t know what to do. After all, why would everyone with a microphone volunteer their thoughts on the enthusiasm and voting problem if they weren’t scared shitless they were going to lose all of us – and our readers!?
The countervailing force to the Democratic establishment is us, the bloggers, who make these communities what they are and who all know that we have been misled and betrayed on some level. These folks see the choice in front of them. They are seeing that there is an avenue of investigation into activism other than Democratic politics.
These folks, from FDL and dKos and everywhere else, didn’t get into progressive politics to protect their own little turf, or bump their salary, or get their ego stroked by networking. They did not get involved to select a nominee (and we did – Obama would not be president without the support of the netroots during the nomination fight) only to watch that man as president betray their principles and their belief in him, to say nothing of the spineless and corrupted Democrats in Congress. They do not see themselves as cogs in an establishment political system that merely calls itself “progressive”. They got involved to change a country and a world. And increasingly they are seeing the path forward as around the Democratic establishment rather than through it.
These folks know they have a choice, and they are taking that choice seriously. Netroots Nation is a major data point in how people will make that choice. By that measure, the establishment failed miserably. Will progressives now take the chance to jump ship, chart a new course in keeping with our independent spirit, or will be be subsumed by scare tactics and stern talking to’s?
Are we really the kind of fucking retards that will allow ourselves to be used and thrown away twice?
A long excerpt but it’s a long post and a gratifying read. Netroots Nation itself is asking for feedback. If you went, give them some. [And if you linger on that page too long, you'll get a Keith Olbermann pop up and no, I'm not comfortable with him or any of that.]
The left will not reclaim this country by copying the other side. They’ve worn that shit out and each time the rest of America sees bombast from us, they think, aha, more of the same.
We don’t need more of the same. A broken Republican party would be our chance to break the Democratic party. Risky? How exactly could we make things worse?
More from Jane Hamsher. Still interested in the movement? Ted Rall says some committed folks are going to try to bring a taste of Arab Spring to DC this October. I’m willing to bet even money that if his demonstration lasts three days or more, it will totally surpass any impact on next year’s politics coming out of Netroots Nation.
It is past time to leave the convention halls and take to the streets, and I say that as someone who’s been credentialed more than a few times, and who has never accomplished a damned thing in the streets but times change and never more so than now. A four-way race might sound crazy now, but nothing’s crazier than the crazy cons.
More:
Neiwert on the Strib NN blackout (I got a link from the Strib once…I think they fired that guy)
And Andy Birkey spells out the case for glitterbombing. Having done advance work for the Kennedy family during Ted’s 1980 Iowa campaign, I can make the case against it.
Ethel Kennedy and her daughters, Eunice Shriver, Ted Kennedy Jr. — none of these surrogates had Secret Service protection. All they had was union guys like me as their drivers and if you had tried to glitterbomb one of them, yes, we would have beaten the fuck out of you. Not for the glitter. We would have tackled you the second your hand came out of your pocket too quickly.
After they shot Bobby, the bottom line was pretty simple: no one fucks with a Kennedy, not ever. I’m sure glitterbombing is funny and gratifying and all, but sooner or later someone’s going to end up in an ICU and I will not feel sorry for them. This is the land of free and home of the assassinated. There’s no such thing as a joke attack on a candidate.
Stop this childish fucking shit now. Governors are one thing, presidential candidates are something else.
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I stashed quite a few links on the Supreme Borks classfucking women, but karoli has all that and more. Recommended, but not if you’re on heart meds. Steve Benen has more.
Steve Benen with more on Clarence.
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The unending sea of crud that engulfs us:
Using campaign funds to lobby?
Turns out there was more than one hijab action in town last week: Minnesota Conservatives blogger John Gilmore assaulted two women for being Muslim (if the hijab flash mob knew about this before hand, I take back everything I said about them)
Palin’s movie poster gets photoshopped
Another unhinged Republican plea for Black votes
Saying don’t make it so: the Daily Glean on Republican compromisin’
Taibbi on hawks and transspeciesism
Pimping Rick Perry by ignoring his real numbers
Idaho Republican leader goes on drunken rampage, steals truck
Jon Stewart’s rips on Fox make Romenesko
Bush was just a dirty liberal meme returns (they’re all for you until they realize how full of shit you were, then they move on to the next shitbag)
Amy Klobuchar’s bill to make me a felon
Actually, this chart makes me wonder what’s wrong with the other 78%
Hans von Spakovsky: making it up as he goes
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There was “Look for the Union Label,” and that’s about it so far as good union commercials go. New failed attempt makes me wish unions would just do commercials like this one:
Workers sitting around break room table bitching, all conversation stops when a supervisor walks in. Cut to Workers sitting around break table bitching, and then one turns to the biggest complainer and says, “Lets stop by the hall after work and see what they have to say about this.”
Next scene: a group of union officials leaning over the supervisor’s desk, explaining what the contract says.
Show the need for unions, and then show the benefit of having someone speak for you. It’s not rocket science, it’s basic organizing.
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Etc.:
Black comedy about to make a comeback? (revenge is passé, maybe it’s time to start laughing at the bad guys again)
When it comes to DOJ investigations of cops, professional courtesies rule
Via Waxy, The Loving Trap, a video that’s like being rickrolled by John Lyden (or maybe John Lurie)
More on the Richie Riching of America
New Miss USA one of only two contestants who believe in evolution
Austin’s Amanda Hocking makes the NYTimes (I liked the backstory on the wall pictures)
Stieg Larrson’s lover gets the last laugh on his grabby heirs
Screwing the poor, part MMCCLXII
GLAAD prez resigns over poorly thought out support for AT&T merger
Gulf of Mexico dead zone just the start? [more]
Scott Rosen goes deep (for bloggers only)
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norwegianity.fuckyou sounds good to me.
NN roundup:
DK lists some big ideas for labor, the SBA, higher education, and progressivism (but I have no clue if any of this was presented at NN, or just what this series is about???)
Mudflats on WI (to an Alaskan, I’m sure NN was practically in Wisconsin) [Mudflats actual last NN post]
WI bloggers recognized at NN [any MN bloggers get recognized? I'm not fishing, just wondering if ANY Minnesotans not in high office were noted, complimented or otherwise recognized]
James O’Keefe (the right’s version of glitter and seriously, I’m still recoiling from the hypocrisy of booting Breitbart and then glitterbombing Michele and hijab-bombing their conference)
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Gov. Bridgefail’s legacy of debt and kicking the can down the road gets he said/she saided by the Strib’s Kevin Diaz who simply cannot sort out the facts from the bullshit. Add to this Rush Limbaugh’s recent defense of Pawlentyism, and you’ve got a sure-fire recipe for a campaign that will limp its way through South Carolina before ignominiously losing one too many straw polls to Herman Cain.
Worst fucking governor ever but still in the running thanks to an enabling media that can’t tell us anything about anyone without it coming from someone else’s lying mouth.
For a rare piece of specific journalism in which numbers are assessed, trends analyzed and findings published, check out the WaPost’s remarkable new series on executive pay and widening income inequality in America.
Nothing too startling other than the fact this is being published by a major daily newspaper, almost all of which have shied away from honest economic reporting in recent decades.
Meanwhile, over at UnitedPottersville, Stephen Hemsley took a 52% cut in pay, only making $48 million last year, dwarfing Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel’s $25 million. The Strib’s new CEO pay rankings are out, and 49 freaking Minnesota-based CEOs made over $1 million last year. (Compare with DC-area CEOs, and see also Ezra Klein on superstar compensation.)
Forty-nine. Who knew we were surrounded by so much brilliance? so many colossus geniuses who have deigned to share their godlike insights with us mere mortals. [more charts]
So many dicks with oversized egos. That or maybe it’s impossible to find under-a-million CEOs for prestigious outfits like American Medical Systems Holdings Inc., Moneygram International or Buffalo Wild Wings.
But . . . with any luck, their kids might grow up to be Luke Russert, and that makes it all worthwhile.
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Politics:
EJ Dionne on the vote suppression racket [more]
Edroso on Bachmann [more] [more]
Giving Brown v Board college grants to whites (only in Virginia could you get reparation $ for having attended a whites-only academy)
Even Chris Wallace admits that credibility-wise, Fox News = The Daily Show (not CBS, NBC or even MSNBC, he compared his news network to Comedy Central!) [more]
I agree with the Lance Mannion analysis, but the ADN explanation has some merit, as well but the real heat comes from Roseanne Cash [I hope by now it's obvious that I'm linking to stuff about Sarah Palin, but then again I'm sure you already knew that] [bonus SP background link] [the movie poster and I swear there's Stars'n'Bars hidden in there somehow and yes, I think the AK flag could be starred'n'barred quite easily, or at least better than this attempt]
I forwarded this Whole Foods link to some labor folks (yes, it’s that good)
Charlieq on the shit we do for to kids
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Etc.:
Via Taylor, most brilliant (and hardest!) quiz website ever: Porn Star or Anchor Woman? (I would have done better had they used more pornstars (or anchors) from the ’80s) [Note: this is actually work safe even tho some of the anchor photos are rather risqué]
Brazilian courts let pro-pot demonstrators hold rallies
Climate change wankers and their two-year degrees
How the corpos enable fraud (not getting involved is like watching Kitty Genovese die over and over and over again)
The book I’m reading right now finishes its first season on HBO (good stuff, every time the action lags, they kill or maim someone)
Man sets himself on fire in anti-government protest and no one covers it
John Lennon: it’s not copyright violation, it’s a love in
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Tons o’ links but no time to post them. On the road to Iowa, maybe something tonight.
DIY, Van Jones speech at NN is apparently worth your time, and shouldn’t be hard to find.
