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Weekend Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope February 20, 201011 Comments

Happy weekend everyone! I hope you're enjoying your relatively snow-free weekend. Are you ready for an open thread? Let's roll! Tiger Woods has started his apology tour. One blogger put…

UPDATED: Schools + Student Issued Laptops + Webcams = Spying At School and At Home

By pandora February 20, 201036 Comments

UPDATE 02/20/10: This isn't looking good for the school district. District spokesman Doug Young acknowledged yesterday that officials had remotely activated computer webcams 42 times, but only in an attempt…

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

By Unstable Isotope February 20, 2010101 Comments

Mike Castle has been on the defensive lately. He's become the posterboy for Republican hypocrisy, especially the "trash and grab" strategy of trashing the stimulus while showing up to take…

Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Wishing for a DL Road Trip Edition

By cassandra_m February 19, 20104 Comments

There was a great article in the Philly News this week telling the world how the amazing DiBruno Bros is stepping up to add artisan bacon to its truely wondrous food offerings:

Friday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope February 19, 201043 Comments

Woohoo, it's Friday! Does anyone have any exciting plans for the weekend? Let's get this open thread started. On the lighter side, "20 Unholy Recipes: Dishes So Awful We Had…

Metaphor Fail

By Unstable Isotope February 19, 20108 Comments

Brand new Massachusetts Senator and conservative darling Scott Brown was interviewed on Fox (of course) and asked about the incident in Austin, Texas. His answer was interesting, to say the…

Falling In Love Again

By Unstable Isotope February 19, 20104 Comments

George Bush left office with approval ratings in the 20s. He was responsible for getting us into a disastrous war based on lies and for the worst recession since the…

CNN Features Mike Castle as a GOP Stimulus Hypocrite

By cassandra_m February 19, 20108 Comments

This is from Rick Sanchez's show Wednesday, I think -- Mike Castle and the ARRA stunt check is featured early in the segment:

Thursday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope February 18, 2010121 Comments

It snowed last night! Why do you hate us Weather Goddess? In other news, it's actually Thursday and the week is more than halfway over! Are you ready for your…

I Would Like To Thank Health Insurance Companies For Making My Point

By pandora February 18, 201028 Comments

I'm certain everyone has heard of Anthem's 39% rate increase in health insurance, but did you realize raising rates is all the rage? Actually, if you're one of the individually…

Warm Up Your Dialing Fingers

By Unstable Isotope February 18, 201023 Comments

Next week President Obama will convene his bipartisan health care summit. It's expected that sometime in next few days, the Senate bill + reconciliation sidecar will be introduced. The reconciliation…

Mt. Vernon Statement

By Unstable Isotope February 18, 201024 Comments

Conservatives had an event for the launch of the CPAC conference where they unveiled a new document called the "Mt. Vernon Statement." This is a statement of conservative principles that…

A Big Picture Look At the Stimulus One Year On

By cassandra_m February 18, 20105 Comments

And it is -- on the terms it was passed -- a definite success. David Leonhart wrote this must read article at the NYT on Tuesday, that starts like this:…