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Late Night Music Open Thread 27 Aug 2013 | 12:12 pm
. Courtesy commentor PIGL. The girl can sing, y’all. And then again… this, from the New Yorker: … This seems as good a time as any to reflect on Ronstadt’s greatness, which might cheer us up a litt...
It’s Steve’s World and We’re Just Living In It 27 Aug 2013 | 10:44 am
Sometimes you just gotta run the dogs out of the room and have some “me” time on the couch: It completely and totally cracks me up how quickly he took over this house. If Steve is sitting in a doorwa...
It Rubs the Lotion On Its Skin Or It Gets the Hose Again 27 Aug 2013 | 09:44 am
Interesting: The Guardian has agreed with the New York Times to give the U.S. newspaper access to some classified documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, both p...
Open Thread: Noreen Malone Is Smarter Than Ron Fournier 27 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Okay, my dog is smarter than Ron Fournier, but this is hilarious: Millenials Will Run for Political Office, Like it Or Not Ron Fournier, a Baby Boomer writing in the Atlantic, is worried about what ...
Sentimental education 27 Aug 2013 | 08:13 am
I’m trying to read things like Jacobin magazine more these days. I stumbled across this interesting article attacking “moral sentimentalism“: There is a tension at the core of bourgeois morality. On ...
In the year 2000 27 Aug 2013 | 07:23 am
I was talking to a friend of mine about Gore’s choice of Joe Lieberman in 2000. I told him that I thought the base would rebel if something like that happened now. He disagreed, he said most Democrati...
Open Thread: We Are Shocked, Shocked! 27 Aug 2013 | 07:15 am
Oh, the horror: MTV has once again outraged an advocacy group that wants to reduce the level of adult content and profanity on television. The Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group known for ...
Open Thread: Women to the Economic Rescue? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:14 am
This is kinda kewl, on several levels, for us progressives. Laura D’Andrea Tyson, in the NYTImes: Among economists (most of whom are male), there is a tendency to treat diversity and gender equality ...
MARC Update 27 Aug 2013 | 05:04 am
The good folks at the Marion Animal Resource Connection send forward this email: > John, I am so sorry we have not sent you as promised our weekly diary. We started sort of writing it down each day b...
Turn on, tune in, drop out 27 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
Alex Pareene has a great piece on the strange paranoia surrounding Fox News, in particular its strange need to discredit anyone who writes anything about the network….as if any Fox News viewers were b...
