2012 archive
RIP Newsweek 0
It died long ago, a victim of boredom (of the readers). It’s about Time (heh) someone noticed.
I suspect that, as a digital entity, it will be the Geocities of news sources, hanging on by its electrons long after the crowds have faded away.
Mitt the Shape-Shifter 0
Stu Bykofsky, hardly a pillar of lefty-ness, realizes that there’s no there, there:
Half the time, I like Barack Obama’s policies. When I don’t, at least I know what they are.
Read the rest. It’s worth the two minutes.
Making Music with Binders On 0
Dick Destiny harnesses the beat.
Mitt the Flip, SOP 0
From Dick Polman’s article about this week’s debate:
You can read the rest, but this sums up the Romney campaign.
And Romney’s character.
His Way or the Highway 0
Arrogance on the hoof.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
I was in a binder this morning and forgot to check the weekly unemployment data. Slightly worse:
(snip)
The four-week moving average, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, rose to 365,500 last week from 364,750. The average number of claims over the past two weeks was in line with the four-week average, indicating little change in the pace of firings outside the seasonal swings.
(snip)
Payrolls rose 114,000 in September after a 142,000 increase the prior month, according to Labor Department figures released earlier this month. The unemployment rate dropped to a three- year low of 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent.
Today’s report showed the number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits fell by 29,000 in the week ended Oct. 6 to 3.25 million.
News, Ripped from the Ticker 0
Warning: Language.
Mitt the Flip: a Bounder with Binders 0
At Asia Times, Pepe Escobar suggest that Mitt the Flip has let slip the binds of truth.
Way beyond the meme cycle, the problem is actually Mitt’s Binders Full of Baloney. . . .
Show me the money. And while we’re at it, be afraid, be very afraid of the world according to Mitt (or rather his neo-con advisers). Russia is a strategic enemy. China is a commercial enemy. And the US must raise hell – again – all across the Middle East; so expect the Return of the (Medieval) Dead, as in “you’re either with us or against us”, part II.
Caught in a Heat Wave . . . 0
“. . . a tropical heat wave.
I wonder which meals they ordered.
The Voter Fraud Fraud (Updated) 0
It is getting stranger.
Via The Richmonder.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
An arrest has been made.
The Virginia Republican Party is not returning phone calls.
And that surprises us how?
Undue Influence 0
Mitt the Flip directs employers to tell their employees how to vote. The key quote starts about the 26:40 mark.
When you cut through the hearts and flowers rhetoric, it is suborning voter intimidation.
I do have low expectations of today’s Republican Party, but, I must admit, this recedes my expectations.
Via Balloon Juice.
The Election Must Be Getting Nearer 0
Karl Rove’s PAC keeps calling up my answering machine and telling it lies.
Hermetically Sealed in a Mayonnaise Jar Buried under Funk & Wagnalls Back Porch 0
Or, Life in the Wingnut Bubble, brought to you by John Cole.
Romney’s Bain 0
Its prey speak out.