cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Judicial Filibuster Hypocrisy Watch
Remember the BushCo era judicial wars? The ones where Republicans lectured us all at length about how filibustering judicial nominees is unconstitutional? Well, if you don’t remember, Media Matters has gone through the CSPAN archives to remind you of many of those lectures. At Democracy or Hypocrisy you can see multiple videos of the usual […]
Barack Obama’s Facebook Wall Page
You really have to click through to see the whole thing — from Slate.
National Lampoon’s Citizen’s Grand Juries
GTF Outta Here! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mAGfunfpNU[/youtube] I’m going to get a citizen’s grand jury together to investigate the fact that this guy is wearing sneakers with a suit.
National Lampoon’s Libertarian Vacation
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDv4sYwjO0[/youtube] Let us know if you hear of any who are going this summer.
The Cost Culture of Health Care Delivery
This is a Must Read article by Atul Gawande at the New Yorker is worth spending some time with today. It is really difficult to excerpt anything here, but it is just that good. He gets at many of the real policy and practice questions that need to be thought about as we talk about […]
Paying Delaware’s Civil Servants
Today’s NJ has a long story on the salary of the President of DelTech — Lonnie George. It’s a long article, but worth the read. George is not only the state’s top earner, but apparently at the top of the salary list for community college presidents nationwide. I’m not so interested in whether or not […]
Wingnut Victims — Chrysler Dealerships Edition
And they just don’t stop. The victimization du jour consists of the usual suspects claiming that the Obama Administration decided to preference the closing of dealers who are Republican. Any guesses on how this turns out? Nate Silver takes a look at the universe of political contributions from folks claiming to be car dealers and […]
Commencement Day Speech Roundup
It’s that time of the year and kids are listening to someone try to give them some final words of wisdom before heading out into the cruel world after graduation. This post is inspired by Joanne Christian, who heard St. Andrews’ alum Erin Burnett (now a reporter on CNBC) give the commencement address at the […]
Weekend Afternoon Open Thread
Top Ten Reasons Why Are We Leaving the Republican Party. My favorite reason is : 8) Constant whining about religious persecution got on our last goddamned nerve. Some of the additions in the comments are worthy — but I’m sure you guys can come up with more. One of the few reasons I regret not […]
Bestseller in the Making!
From an email correspondent: Gov. Palin is reported to have signed a contract to write a book about her life, including her experiences as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate last year. In recent efforts to rehabilitate her image, she has talked about her love of reading and mentioned that one of her favorite authors is […]
Evening Open Thread
Here’s a couple of topics to get started with: The GPS system could fail next year, as the Air Force is struggling with making repairs and upgrades to the system. Representative Alan Grayson proves to be one of the most interesting House Members — he has introduced a bill to make paid vacation from work […]
Gay Don’t Pay — Updated!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMJvZO2KgVw[/youtube] h/t Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog UPDATE: Our own MJ inaugurates a New Feature on his blog and has some additional schooling for Steele.
Bontrust Finance: Increase In Currency (Money love)
Very Funny. Very NSFW!!! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBDPkZakPU4[/youtube]
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