Weekend Open Thread
It’s the weekend, and here is your Open Thread.
Quiz time! What does your car say about you? 20 questions that are supposed to get at your vehicle signification. Based on my answers, my car says:
You are a typical road user; the car plays an important role in your life but it must be reliable and easy to live with, and most of all safe.
Your car says to other people that your family, and their wellbeing, is your first priority.
If there’s money there to be spent, you’d rather it go towards ‘the more important things’ in life.
Meh.
So what do you think? Does your car say something about your personality?
Even more fun — Sean Hannity interviews some random group of so-called experts who want you to know that Sesame Street will make your children into fabulous gay socialists. Seriously, watch this bit of pathetic bullshit:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ypsojc5vFg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Everytime you think that GOP clownshow can’t get any worse, here they go. And Ken Blackwell as an expert at anything? Jesus, this fool probably thinks Sesame Street is responsible for the fact that he can’t count.
What interests you this weekend?
I’m back!
I’m eager to here about the living hell of euro-socialism.
Stumbled upon an excellent article at Naked Capitalism that should give succor to all those who read DL and are disgusted that 2008 brought us not progressive government but instead somewhat less regressive government than a Republican would have given us.
For those without the time or inclination to click, here’s an excerpt:
“Protest can have an invisible ripple-effect that lasts for generations. A small group of women from Iowa lost their sons early in the Vietnam war, and they decided to set up an organization of mothers opposing the assault on the country. They called a protest of all mothers of serving soldiers outside the White House – and six turned up in the snow. Even though later in the war they became nationally important voices, they always remembered that protest as an embarrassment and a humiliation.
Until, that is, one day in the 1990s, one of them read the autobiography of Benjamin Spock, the much-loved and trusted celebrity doctor, who was the Oprah of his day. When he came out against the war in 1968, it was a major turning point in American public opinion. And he explained why he did it. One day, he had been called to a meeting at the White House to be told how well the war in Vietnam was going, and he saw six women standing in the snow with placards, alone, chanting. It troubled his conscience and his dreams for years. If these women were brave enough to protest, he asked himself, why aren’t I? It was because of them that he could eventually find the courage to take his stand – and that in turn changed the minds of millions, and ended the war sooner. An event that they thought was a humiliation actually turned the course of history.”
Epiphanies come at unexpected moments.
At 12, I was deeply changed by a glance and momentary meeting of our distinctly different minds.
Geezer, I made an edit to your link, it was broken as posted….
This certainly resonates with me:
I think that I’ve mentioned here that I was raised by people who occasionally handed over their babies (along with wills and other paperwork) to grandparents to go South working on civil rights campaigns. It took me until I was well grown to understand the magnitude of the sacrifice they were prepared for to make sure we could have the lives we have now. So I *get* how protest and political pain can change the world. What I don’t get is the essential sense of powerlessness that Americans seem to have. Especially now, when pols are always looking to re-election.
BTW — Yves Smith has done a couple of Harry Shearer shows talking about the banking business and the craziness over mortgages. She’s *very* good.
This Palin film sounds about as horrible as you’d expect.
A NY Post (owned by FOX) reviewer panned it “comparing “The Undefeated” to “the brainwash movie Alex is forced to sit through in ‘A Clockwork Orange.’”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56280.html#ixzz1OQFHWeEt
ZOMG! Someone on Twitter said something mean about Sarah Palin? How does she sleep at night, with so many petty feuds to get into?
Boing boing has the best headline for the announcment by Rick Santorum
Eeewwww….