Full boil
(OK, I’m a tea drinker now and yes, I do brew my tea in an old Mr. Coffee carafe but no, that doesn’t excuse the mixed beverage messages Toles is sending here.)
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After a long, media-drugged sleep, a nation groggily awakes and wonders why its ass hurts so goddamned bad.
Why the debt ceiling crisis is phonier than fat-burning creams, and why they’ve already orchestrated the next one
Neil Cavuto, openly rooting for our economy to fail
Timid media questions spun as Islamo-liberal-fascist terroramism [more]
Giving teabaggers infinite typewriter time (so far they’ve reproduced the complete works of Ayn Rand, Cleon Skousen and Leo Strauss, and have burned three accidentally recreated copies of Das Kapital)
Joe Nocera: Tea party’s war on America
The price tag for dithering: $1.7 billion
Bill O’Reilly: entire federal debt the fault of liberals
4 ways the debt ceiling deal will fuck you personally
Ali Velshi asks about the jobs
emptywheel on the pivot to jobs (aka, trade deals) [more on how the banksters/oligarchs are doing the same to Europe]
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Ted Rall says Democrats should stay home in 2012, and at this particularly disillusioning point in time, I’m inclined to agree (let them run everything, we’re just a few heartbeats away from a total collapse into financial feudalism anyway).
Afghanistan: way worse than they’ve been letting on
WaPost takes note of federal judge ripping DOJ prosecutors, comparing them to colonial era tyranny
Lamborn apologizes for calling Obama a tar baby — oops, he said it again (it is in fact impossible to apologize for calling someone a tar baby, that being the nature of tar babies)
New pix emerge and there no longer is any doubt but that Trig is NOT Sarah Palin’s child
Joe McGinniss’s family and the threats they’ve been getting
Fox: they hounded a student from Tennessee all the way to prison, but haven’t any curiosity as to how Murdoch hacked everyone not named Sarah Palin (this is a pretty obvious comparison, but not obvious enough for the major media)
Former NOTW managing editor Stuart Kuttner arrested
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Anders Behring Breitbart, sitting in a tree….
John Bolton discovers his long-standing friendship with Pam Geller may prove inconvenient (Islamaphobo cooties?)
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Internet Explorer users take a beating in the Daily Mail, but the truth is that the vast majority of IE6 users surf from employer-provided work stations that haven’t been upgraded since the ’90s. I would still be running OS9 on my G4 if I wasn’t online — old computers are still good computers if you don’t need to go online.
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Etc.:
Why is the Catholic church still legally operating in most parts of the world?
Publishing a newspaper without computers ‘a lesson in humility’ (and framing a house without a nail gun takes longer as well — is there some kind of point being made here? is it so surprising to learn that technological progress really speeds things up?)
More on the California prison strike
Apparently I “walked free” sometime last week and didn’t even know it (The Expendables, btw, is a truly dreadful movie that pairs the soft ear-straining mumbled incoherency of Sly Stallone with SOME OF THE LOUDEST FUCKING BATTLE NOISES I’VE EVER SAT THROUGH)
A quick reminder that this Class of ’71 grad was a freak and not a hippie, and would have found the Merry Pranksters tour to be a living fucking hippy hell
MTV can no longer afford to license music (it’s too expensive)
Moving right along, and leaving in the past what has passed, I’m interested in the Merry Prankster’s flick just to watch Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey in action for awhile. Cassady of course is the central character in the great American classic, “On the Road.” Interestingly though, the way his family remembers him is a little different.
http://www.nealcassadyestate.com/
I share Ted Rall’s jaded, cynical, disillusioned anger.
Am I going to vote Obama in 2012? No.
Am I going to sit out the election? No.
I’m going to vote Green. I’m done with both wings and the body of the Money Party at the presidential level. It’s too broke, diseased, and end-staging to fix from within. You might say I’m going to stop shopping at Big Box Politics and start spending my civic dollars on mom and pop politics. I’ll try that for 30+ years and see if it’s any worse than Voting For The Lesser Of Two Evils has turned out to be.
I’d be happy if, over the next several election cycles, the Greens became large enough to become a swing voting bloc at the federal government level. But y’know what? Ain’t ever going to get there unless we start voting politicians who support the Green platform into office. I’m going to start doing my part.
http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/democracy.php#309652
Pretty charts illustrating the composition, and historical roots of, the Tea Party. And the author’s suggestion for a more descriptive name than “Tea Party”.
http://www.salon.com/news/tea_parties/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/02/lind_tea_party
Yeah, Rob. If you vote for the lesser of two evils you’re still pulling the lever for the Evil Party. Here’s to the best Democracy a billionaire or corporation can buy!
Outstanding. See how fun it is to play around with font and finger paint.
The PACBUnion is gonna love this one it think. I predict some of them will even print this one out and stencil it on their road towels as they sniff glue.
keep going there.