Week of 8/6 thru 8/12/06
As you can imagine, plenty of Liberal Coalition participation this past week in CT, as LC members Jane Hamsher and TRex were among those covering Ned Lamont's campaign and victory in the Democratic primary.
• Jane takes time to savor the win before reminding us of one of the reasons Karl Rove is still interested in Lieberman, how the mainstream media isn't following the fake-hack story, and what Barbara Boxer changing her mind bodes for "Holy Joe"s prospects.
• Bora/Coturnix finds a back to school ad for a t-shirt that espouses, I suspect, a growing sentiment.
• Bora's also guest posting at Echidne's place while she's on vacation, along with other guests like blue lily, who gets a jump on next month's MDA telethon with these two posts.
• Jeff thinks the Movieguide people need to relax a bit, maybe take in a harmless Will Ferrell flick...
• John, who would dearly like to reach an arbitrary round number of hits by his non-arbitrary round-numbered birthday so do help him out, raises a point I was thinking about in the wake of the "get these m***f*** liquids off this m***f*** plane" scare. He parses: "We take these bottles away from people boarding planes because they might contain bomb ingredients. Then we feel bad about throwing away perfectly good products, so we donate them to the poor. We know it's safe enough for the poor to use because it's in unopened bottles. We think the products are too dangerous to allow on planes because terrorists can always fix it so that the bottles look unopened. We cannot accept the risk of letting these potentially reactive or explosive chemicals on a plane, but it is an acceptable risk to let the homeless pour these potentially reactive or explosive chemicals on their heads." Obviously the answer is that, at this particular airport, the personnel know what most of the rest of us already logically acknowledge - that the liquids are harmless - and they're trying to make something good happen out of someone else's bad policy decisions.
• Kathy reports that our country is only slightly less blinded by science than is Turkey.
• Keith gives us a blast from the past, mentioning a Billy Ray Cyrus comic that Marvel published last decade. I have to wonder if it was before or after the speculeech bust...
• Maru brings us yet another "benefit" of global climate change - the Welsh heat wave and drought have created conditions where aerial archaeologists have been able to find tons of new discoveries.
• Mustang Bobby discusses celebrity outings.
• Hooray, more 100%-original-content posts from Steve Gilliard, I hope this becomes a habit! Here he reminds us again how Osama bin Laden is still winning. Which leads to this post about how the GOP really "supports" the troops (which is to say, they don't). And of course he throws his opinion out about why Lieberman lost.
• Norbizness' strawconservative argues with his strawme; and he transcribes another press conference.
• Steve Bates has a sweet setup.
• Lastly, upyernoz reports from Riga.
Me, I'm just reporting from the Riggs Residence, off to watch baseball now...
• Jane takes time to savor the win before reminding us of one of the reasons Karl Rove is still interested in Lieberman, how the mainstream media isn't following the fake-hack story, and what Barbara Boxer changing her mind bodes for "Holy Joe"s prospects.
• Bora/Coturnix finds a back to school ad for a t-shirt that espouses, I suspect, a growing sentiment.
• Bora's also guest posting at Echidne's place while she's on vacation, along with other guests like blue lily, who gets a jump on next month's MDA telethon with these two posts.
• Jeff thinks the Movieguide people need to relax a bit, maybe take in a harmless Will Ferrell flick...
• John, who would dearly like to reach an arbitrary round number of hits by his non-arbitrary round-numbered birthday so do help him out, raises a point I was thinking about in the wake of the "get these m***f*** liquids off this m***f*** plane" scare. He parses: "We take these bottles away from people boarding planes because they might contain bomb ingredients. Then we feel bad about throwing away perfectly good products, so we donate them to the poor. We know it's safe enough for the poor to use because it's in unopened bottles. We think the products are too dangerous to allow on planes because terrorists can always fix it so that the bottles look unopened. We cannot accept the risk of letting these potentially reactive or explosive chemicals on a plane, but it is an acceptable risk to let the homeless pour these potentially reactive or explosive chemicals on their heads." Obviously the answer is that, at this particular airport, the personnel know what most of the rest of us already logically acknowledge - that the liquids are harmless - and they're trying to make something good happen out of someone else's bad policy decisions.
• Kathy reports that our country is only slightly less blinded by science than is Turkey.
• Keith gives us a blast from the past, mentioning a Billy Ray Cyrus comic that Marvel published last decade. I have to wonder if it was before or after the speculeech bust...
• Maru brings us yet another "benefit" of global climate change - the Welsh heat wave and drought have created conditions where aerial archaeologists have been able to find tons of new discoveries.
• Mustang Bobby discusses celebrity outings.
• Hooray, more 100%-original-content posts from Steve Gilliard, I hope this becomes a habit! Here he reminds us again how Osama bin Laden is still winning. Which leads to this post about how the GOP really "supports" the troops (which is to say, they don't). And of course he throws his opinion out about why Lieberman lost.
• Norbizness' strawconservative argues with his strawme; and he transcribes another press conference.
• Steve Bates has a sweet setup.
• Lastly, upyernoz reports from Riga.
Me, I'm just reporting from the Riggs Residence, off to watch baseball now...
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