This is pretty awesome. Via Gary.
Month: September 2009
I don't really have to say anything about Michael Gerson's column (ht -- I guess -- to Atrios), because Kay Steiger pre-emptively gave the definitive response while discussing another recent.
You've found the sweet spot; a compromise bill that everyone to the left of Snowe and to the right of Jay Rockefeller can support.I have no idea if Rockefeller would.
This is amusing enough, but rather past expiration date; I've been including sexy teenage vampires in all of my grant proposals for years now.
Beloved Senate Centrist bails out of health care reform! For reasons exactly as incoherent as you would expect:Snowe (Maine), who was one of three Republicans who backed the $787 billion.
Dan Riehl is brave:In the back were maybe ten or so black kids taking up that section of the car. There was no confrontation, just one or two of them.
For some reason, I find this enormously fascinating:Lenin told the British science fiction writer H.G. Wells, who interviewed him in the Kremlin in 1920, that if life were discovered on other planets, revolutionary violence would no longer be necessary: "Human ideas—he told Wells—are based on...
Wow. I doubt that we've yet fully grasped the enormity of the Sarah Palin VP pick, but the fact that she apparently was considered ill-prepared by George W. Bush is.
Shorter Verbatim Byron York: "Republicans have again found their voice on fiscal discipline. And some of them wish they had been more outspoken when a president of their own party.
R.I.P. Jim Carroll....R.I.P. Jody PowellR.I.P. Patrick Swayze.Brutal day, though I suppose no more or less than all the others.
Had a good diavlog on Friday with Rachel Kleinfeld of the Truman Project. This clip focuses on the problems that the drone war in Af/Pak presents for a progressive security.
Scary black woman throws tennis into turmoil.Update: When I proposed this piece to the Daily Beast, I suggested I might not even mention race because the piece is primarily about.