Let the eagle soar (obligatory link):
SHARLET: [The] new (Ugandana) legislation adds to this something called aggravated homosexuality. And this can include, for instance, if a gay man has sex with another man who is disabled, that’s aggravated homosexuality, and that man can be – I suppose [...]
I don’t want to tar all teabaggers with this brush, but I think it’s fair to say that Malkin and her ilk are partly responsible for this kind of behavior (via Steve Benen):
A group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that [...]
by: FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for "Black Friday" (November 27).
1. On Wednesday, Jane Hamsher asked, "Why is HCAN Defending Blanche Lincoln From A Primary Challenge?" The answer: "[HCAN] will continue to operate as part of the Democratic party infrastructure, try to" [...]
Some days I’ve about had it with this country. The absurd over-reaction to the WH dinner crashers was way too much the last few days, but I just saw a ten minute piece on CNN that treated this like it was an enormous deal, and I can’t take much more [...]
Unserious person and DFH James Fallow is being all sorts of unvillagelike and calling you out, Chuck Todd:
Seriously, when does an official part of the chattering class—one of the weekend talkers, someone from the leading newspapers—look back on these past two weeks in journalism’s effort to represent reality and [...]
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BTW- I think I want to mull some cider tomorrow. Any tips or suggestions or advice?
[...]The decision to free Roman Polanski is a wise decision. It honors the people who took it. It shows that the arguments developed by the movie director’s partisans—including those published on the French review’s website of La Règle du Jeu—have finally been fruitful. It shows that Polanski’s French [...]
Today is Black Friday.
It has only been in the last couple of years that stores gave actually referred to "Black Friday" in their post-Thanksgiving-sale ads... There was a time that they didn't really want you to know that it was the point on the fiscal calendar when they went' [...]
Bobo (link fixed) has a piece today about Bruce Springsteen. Shorter Bobo: I really love Bruce Springsteen and feel that I learned from listening to his stories of “teenage couples out on a desperate lark, workers struggling as the mills close down, and drifters on the wrong side of [...]
The Irish government releases a report on sex abuse in the Catholic church:
But rather than helping the victims, the church was concerned only with “the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church, and the preservation of its assets,” said the 700-page [...]
And now, the best lunch of the year: the Thanksgiving sandwich.
Take a baguette, cut it open and add some slices of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, cranberries, and top with some gravy. That is right. You are putting stuffing and gravy inside tasty bread. Wrap it in tinfoil, throw it [...]
Matt S, Fly Fishing for Bass.
JR, The Mall.
Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a [...]
How many of you actually intend to go shopping today?
*** Update ***
What I thought. Most of you are like me and could not be dragged kicking and screaming near a store today. Which reminded me- do any of you remember a couple years back when there was an online call [...]
