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Monday Afternoon Open Thread: The Dust Bowl, The Return of Charles Pierce,...
Good Afternoon Sky Dancers! If you didn’t get to see the first half of Ken Burns’ documentary on the Dust Bowl last night on PBS, please be sure to watch it when you can. It was outstanding, although...
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Tom Ricks Challenges Fox News on Beghazi; Interview Ends Abruptly
Tom Ricks, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and blogger at Foreign Policy appeared on Fox News this morning, where he was asked by talking head Jon Scott why John McCain has toned down his...
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Tom Ricks vs. Fox News, Take 2
What is the deal with this Tom Ricks story? Fox News sure is touchy these days. A Fox executive told the Hollywood Reporter that after his abruptly terminated interview yesterday, Ricks apologized for...
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Thursday Reads: A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit Of That
Boris Karloff reads with friend Good Morning!! Now that Congressional Republicans have successfully shot down President Obama’s rumored first choice for Secretary of State–Susan Rice–they are working...
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Thursday Reads: The Amazing Stupidity of Ron Johnson, and Other News
Good Morning!! It sure was fun watching Hillary take on the blithering idiots of the GOP yesterday. She made them look silly and childish. As Charles Pierce wrote yesterday, the appearance of...
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The Amazing Stupidity of Ron Johnson, Part 2
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has really raised his media profile in the past couple of day. Yesterday he was humiliated by Hillary Clinton during the Senate Benghazi hearings and today it was John...
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Late Night Round Up…Frozen Buildings and Spitting Camels
Good Evening Sitting here watching Road to Morocco with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour…and enjoying it thoroughly. Edith Head did the dresses and they are beautiful. Anyway, just a few...
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Late Late Night Open Thread: Bungling Bunghazi? Nah…it’s a Hillary thang!
Good Evening Yo….it’s been a jungle of a day! I have been in Atlanta for most of the day and this is the first time I have gotten online since early this morning. Other than a little excitement just...
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Friday Nite Lite: Cleveland Courage Fund… and Then The Cartoons
Vintage photograph found on Pinterest…btw Cheergate is over, outcome is the same, baby girl is still a varsity high school cheerleader! Good Evening! TGIF…and it is also the last day of school here in...
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Caturday: Happy Birthday, Marilyn Monroe!
Good morning, newsjunkies! Eighty-seven years ago today, the inimitable Marilyn Monroe was born. To the right is perhaps my favorite photo of Marilyn, taken by Anthony Beauchamp. It projects such...
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Glenn Greenwald’s Dishonest Attack on Paul Krugman
A few days ago Paul Krugman wrote a not-very-exciting post at his blog “The Conscience of a Liberal.” The point of the post was that right wingers have not been as successful in their efforts to hype...
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Thursday Reads
Good Morning!! I hope you’ll forgive my provincialism, but the only news that really matters to me this morning is that the Red Sox mopped the floor with the Cardinals last night, winning Game 1 of...
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Friday Reads: The Word for Today is “Surreality”
Good Morning!! I’ve been browsing around the internet this morning, and all I can find is really surreal news. The Obamacare “fumble” or “botch” or “mess” or whatever else the pundits decide to call...
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Tuesday Reads: Larry Klayman v. NSA; CBS’ 60 Minutes v. Truth; and Police v....
Out of Town News, Harvard Square, 1957 Good Morning!! Our weird winter weather is continuing. This morning’s temperature outside my house is zero degrees! And we’re expecting five more inches of snow...
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Lazy Saturday Reads: Here We Go Again . . .
Brigit Ganley, The Dramatist It’s Saturday!! And a glance at the news headlines today reveals that everything old is new again. Remember 14-year-old Cherise Morales, who committed suicide after being...
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Thursday Reads: The Blame Hillary Game; Russia’s Internet Crackdown, and...
Good Morning!! Josh Rogin of the Daily Beast (formerly of The American Conservative and Foreign Policy) is at it again. Not long ago, he caused an uproar by sneaking into a supposedly off-the-record...
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Thursday Reads
Good Morning!! I’m pretty wiped out this morning, so this won’t be an extensive post. My mom is doing okay, but she needs help with a lot of things. This morning we’re going to have to deal with the...
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Thursday Reads: Media Clutches Pearls, Takes to Fainting Couch, and Calls for...
Good Morning!! I can’t figure out if the corporate media wants to stop Hillary Clinton from running for president or if they desperately want her to run so they can figuratively flog her with a...
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Tuesday Reads
Good Morning!! Nepal has been rocked by 7.3 magnitude earthquake only a few weeks after the last one. From The LA Times: Still reeling from last month’s devastating earthquake, Nepal was hammered...
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Monday Reads
It’s a beautiful fall day here in New Orleans! We’re five days out from our state elections here in Louisiana and Diaper David Vitter with his proclivity for using prositutes is once again in the news....
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