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Archive for October, 2008
Battleground Poll
Posted in General on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
He Got This
Posted in Culture, General, Humor, News & Current Events, Politics on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No comment necessary: H/T: Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has a fine essay on what it all means.
May-Hee-Co
Posted in Bloggin, Travel on October 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m outta here. By the time I get back, we’ll have a new president elect, and plenty to talk about. Blog amongst yourselves. Open thread.
Joe the Prop
Posted in Politics on October 29, 2008 | Comments Off
On the trail in Ohio.
Quote of the Day, 2008-10-28
Posted in Economics, Politics, Taxes on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
hilzoy: Look: socialism is a word that has a meaning. It means public control of the means of production. It does not mean taxing the top bracket at 39%. Likewise, “collective ownership” has a meaning, and it does not mean the situation that obtains when the government can repeal tax cuts for the top 5% [...]
Symbolic Expression in the Lower Primates
Posted in Culture, Economics, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics on October 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well, the conservatives are boycotting something again. When are they not? This time it’s Pepsi-Cola. Seems Pepsi redesigned its logo, which they do every 5-10 years. The old sort-of-yin/yang symbol, in which red and blue areas inside a circle were separated by a wavy white stripe (with the edges of the separate areas parallel to [...]
Quote of the Day, 2008-10-27
Posted in Politics, Smackdown! on October 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Buchananite Larison, on why the dittoheads are part of what’s wrong with the modern GOP: However, in point of fact, yes, that audience is part of what’s wrong with the Republican Party. Part of what has been wrong with the GOP is that its rank-and-file members take their political advice and insights from radio entertainers [...]
The Red, White, and MILF
Posted in Culture, General, Humor, News & Current Events, Politics, Satire, Smackdown! on October 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
God, I really want to be offended by this, but I’m just too turned-on!
Moyer
Posted in Humble Pie, MLB/MiLB, Sports on October 25, 2008 | Comments Off
OK, OK, I take it back. Tonight he got a quality start: 6.1 IP, 3 ER, 4 H, 1 BB, 5 K.
Sarah Palin: Not a Joke, but a Victim of . . . the Abortion Culture
Posted in Church & State, Culture, General, Health, Legal Issues, Media, News & Current Events, Privacy, Religion on October 25, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Man, they are insane over at National Review! I mean it literally – their minds don’t work normally. I usually think that’s just the inherent limitation of being a right-wing second-stringer (you’re already lower than a very low bar), but here I’m not even talking about their developmental team at The Corner – today NRO [...]