July 2011
67 posts
June 2011
57 posts
“So when the GOP’s economic policy team sat down to make the strongest case they...”
– Ezra Klein asks the right questions. (via lemkin)
As I noted in a previous post, you can’t negotiate with “no.”
(via politicalprof)
Watchpoliticalprof:
kohenari:
Geithner Whips Out His Pocket Constitution: Default Is Not An Option
via Huffington Post
“I think there are some people who are pretending not to understand it, who think there’s leverage for them in threatening a default,” Geithner said. “I don’t understand it as a negotiating position. I mean really think about it, you’re going to say that— can I read you the ...
Watchcognitivedissonance:
Mark Halperin, MSNBC political analyst, Senior Political Analyst for Time, and author of Game Change, is now suspended from MSNBC indefinitely for saying Obama acted like a dick yesterday. Why did he think this? Obama called out the Republicans for not even negotiating on the debt ceiling and playing chicken with the U.S. economy.
Birther Jonah Goldberg writes:
“So who...
Lawmaker tries to call all 300,000 constituents →
producermatthew:
Congressman Tim Johnson, who represents the communities of and outside Decatur, Illinois, has made a point of calling each and every constituent he represents for the past eleven years.
While his colleagues break for the evening at 7:00 pm, Johnson takes to the phone and dials from a long list of voters. He doesn’t have an agenda — he just calls to say hello and keep in touch...
Amish Sexter Sought Buggy Sex With Girl, 12 →
cognitivedissonance:
An Amish man who sent hundreds of sexually charged text messages to a 12-year-old girl was arrested last week when he drove a horse and buggy to an Indiana restaurant where he had arranged a rendezvous with the child, according to police.
Nabbed in an undercover sting, Willard Yoder, 21, is facing four felony counts for allegedly soliciting sex from the minor. Yoder,...
Saw this on Twitter and was like 'dawwwww'
godstielinthepandorica:
imbusymycroft:
octopusboner:
peterabbid:
whoisbem:
-sebastianmichaelis:
bakurakat:
27 & 1/3
Cutest. ;w;
So adorable awwwwww
aaaw
27 & 1/3 holy shit that’s so cute
xD hahahaha
this is the most adorablest
Friend: what's that thing where Vulcans go crazy with violence and sex once every 7 years?
Me: pon farr?
Friend: hockey is kinda like that for mild mannered Canadians, isnt it?
Tim Thomas is like the shields on the U.S.S....
Corrupt Politics: Cementing The Double Standard,... →
brooklynmutt:
You know, today, Greece had its credit rating dropped to the lowest in the world. So, Greece could be about to default, which could mean another international financial crisis.
Today, Germany recognized the rebels in Libya as the legitimate government of Libya.
Today, King…
“By the way, the U.N. is also working on a small-arms treaty — which purports to...”
– Glenn Beck, upping the paranoia ante June 13 and, uh, appearing to encourage violence against the president. But metaphorically, of course.
Is he actually serious, or is this born of some adolescent desire to shock? At this point, Glenn, just GTFO.
(via cognitivedissonance)
ARREST THIS MAN.
Dallas 105, Miami 95. Congratulations to the...
“I’m currently producing a movie, Predisposed, that stars Jesse Eisenberg,...”
– Producer and Philadelphia screenwriter RON NYSWANER, writing on the Tracy Morgan incident in The Huffington Post (via inothernews)
BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.: Some of the natural gas... →
inothernews:
Know them well, since it’s obvious they do.
We’ve been doing this process for 50-60 years / since the 1950’s / for decades. As if to say this is nothing new. But there weren’t millions of natural gas wells in the 1950’s, son, as there are today. We’re not fucking stupid, okay?
The chemical…
(TUMBLR Y U NO PUBLISH WHOLE POST)
Anyhow. I’m somewhat torn on this, as...
I even liked (and still do) the new last.fm layout
quisquose:
but this? this is bad design
and I have legitimate objections about it other than “I don’t like it”
why would you make important information more difficult to access for fuck’s sake
Actually the first thing I thought was “this is just like Casey’s iPad”. Now if they can just make posting to Tumblr a lot easier from it (I want my autoformat dammit!), I’ll be...
Tidbit from Yankees announcer Michael Kay: when...
Watchshortformblog:
The early story of AIDS, as shown by PBS: The public broadcaster’s early “NewsHour” reports about AIDS during the early 1980s, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases, do a lot to put a face to a difficult, multi-sided health crisis at a point where we didn’t really know what we were dealing with. At one point in this clip, an anti-AIDS activist compares...
I don't care who you cheer for. Want to win. Want...
