I saw it last night at the People's Plaza Regal Cinema. It was great. And that isn't some empty praise from a musical theater fanboy. I typically hate the modern Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-Cameron-Mackintosh bullshit musicals that are all singing. (Throw some dialogue in for Christsake so people know what the hell is going on. Would a couple sentences of exposition kill you Sir, Lloyd-Webber?) Anyway, I know you want to hate it, but suck it up. It was great. My one quibble has to do with the fact that the musical compresses time so much that it appears the Revolution of 1848 lasted for one day. In fact, the socialists swept the Bourbon monarchists out of France for good and for a time ran a government with a government under the banner of Liberté, égalité, fraternité, establishing that 'The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789' would be a guiding force in France going forward. #AnneHathawaywasawesomebuthatersgonnahate #sowasRussleCrowandIreallyhavenoideawhypeopleareshittingonCrowe'sperformance #idon'tundertsandhowhashtagsworkbutIseepeopledoingingthemsowtf?IthinkI'llthrowsomein?

Armed Guard Hired In Newtown’s Wake Leaves Gun In Bathroom

David Taintor 2:17 PM EST, Friday January 18, 2013 An armed guard at a Lapeer, Mich., charter school -- hired in the wake of the Newtown massacre -- made a "breach of security" this week when he left his gun unattended in the bathroom...

Not the Onion.

Last fall Steve Benen wrote about the GOP's attempts to nullify federal law related to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by refusing to vote on the nomination of Richard Cordray to lead the agency. My take is that the GOP's radical embrace of nullification has become their standard operating procedure and they flat out don't give a flying fuck about the effects that it could have on the country or the Constitution. If it "hurts" the President - they are for it. If it "helps" the President they are not only against it - but they are willing to go to war over it.

A robo-call from the University warns students of a man armed with what looks like an assault weapon.

I was never a big Keeler fan, (especially after the pitiful choking loss in the 2010 championship game against Eastern Washington) but it is hard to blame him for the attendance when they mucked up the season tickets system so badly.

The move was made by new Athletic Director Eric Ziady, who took over that position in October. "A lot of different things over the course of time led me in the direction to have some serious concerns about the direction of the program in the future. As I learned and listened and got my arms around the entire program and the state and direction, it led me in the direction of the decision (Monday). " Delaware only drew 20,000 fans to Delaware Stadium for one game this season, Maine, after doing so twice in 2011 and three times in 2010, the last time they made the I-AA tournament. By comparison, Delaware's smallest home crowd in 2003 was 20,485, the year K.C. Keeler won the title.

I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever agreed with nutbag Michael Savage.

The conservative radio host Michael Savage Sunday called for a third, "nationalist" American political party to challenge the Republican Party on the right of the political spectrum. “We need a nationalist party in the United States of America,” said Savage on Aaron Klein's WABC radio show.

One of those 5,000,000 is going to be the very first very earth-like planet to be discovered - THIS YEAR!   That means science's long held dream of sex with blue chicks is just around the corner. So, let's do the math.   If only .00001 percent have intelligent life on them,  that's 50 planets that can come and rescue our sorry asses with their pyramid power.  Either that or use us for food.

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Michael Castle: Unsuspecting godfather of the $1 trillion coin solution The story starts in 1995, when Rep. Michael Castle, then the Republican at-large representative for Delaware, took over as head of the House Financial Services subcommittee on domestic and international monetary policy. Issues of coinage were part of that subcommittee’s jurisdiction, and so Castle — who tells me that he personally has never collected coins or previously hadn’t had much interest in coin issues — started working with coin collectors and others to draft legislation on the topic. Castle’s biggest accomplishment in the role was the 50-state quarter program, which involved issuing 50 differently designed quarters in the order the states were admitted to the Union (it isn’t a coincidence that Castle’s home state of Delaware was the first admitted). But he also drafted a bill, the Commemorative Coin Authorization and Reform Act of 1995, that included this provision:

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury may mint and issue platinum coins in such quantity and of such variety as the Secretary determines to be appropriate.

It really is the most sensible - and legal! - way out of the debt ceiling nonsense. Sign the petition. Atrios added that putting Reagan on it would be a hoot.  I whole heartedly agree.

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