Open thread. Anything you want to comment about. If you need a topic... Which cable news TV commercial do you most want to destroy?
It's Saturday Night Thread
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Author - Bob Cesca
Layoff Hearings
A Dream by Lee Stranahan I want to see Congress hold hearings and bring CEOs in front of the national spotlight. It's easy enough to find the ones who are laying off workers not because the company...
The Other Page
CESCA'S TAKE: Five very serious words Mark Halperin will use in a sentence this weekend to make himself sound very serious: 1) TARP 2) Tranche 3) Foggy Bottom 4) Ickes 5) Derangement Syndrome (tie)
New Huffington Post Column
In case you missed the link... No Attacks Since When? I know. I usually post on Wednesdays, but I couldn't resist.
Protesting with Gusto
We're all wimps compared to this.
New Amsterdam
This HuffPost article is promoting on their front page... Amsterdam unveiled plans Saturday to close brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafes in its ancient city center as part of a major effort to...
Tagging Chez's Rush Posts
Chez Pazienza has been posting some of his favorite Rush songs and videos, so I thought I'd tag him with some of my modern favorites. First up... "The Pass" from 1989's Presto. The lyrics on this one...
The Weekly YouTube Address
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Lance Armstrong Twits A Pic
More here. h/t Oliver
He's Bragging About This?
Chris Wallace bragged to chickenhawk Mike Gallagher about his special visit with the vice president: WALLACE: Let me ask you this, did the Vice President say to you, “thank you so much for defending...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Alphabet Antics"
Prepping for History
Photo: Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME
Prime Time Thread
Open thread to talk about whatever you want, along with your favorite cable news hackery. Tonight! By request, list your ten favorite blogs -- political or otherwise. But don't use actual links...
Prop. 8: The Musical Backlash
by Lee Stranahan Note:It's posted everywhere and is becoming a nightly feature on Olbermann but in case you missed it, here's a link. Scott Mendelson at HuffPost is both amused and yet not amused by...
Mortgage Rates
On a personal level, I'm not opposed to dropping the home mortgage interest rate to 4.5 percent. I currently have a sweet 5.25 percent 30 year fixed rate on my house (from August 2003) along with a 6...
No Attacks Since When?
Peggy Noonan augments the 'No Attacks Mythology': This is an argument that's been around for a while but is newly re-emerging as the final argument for Mr. Bush: the one big thing he had to do after...
Afternoon Awesome
As I've been scanning through the economic meltdown news today, for some reason this song has been repeating in my head. The Flaming Lips - "Bad Days"
Reparations
Stranahan sez the most entertaining thing George W. Bush could do at this point is to pardon O.J. UPDATE: Here's my HuffPost piece President Bush, Pardon O.J. Simpson Now!
Friendship
Blogging is indeed about a connection similar to a friendship. But also, from what I've experienced doing this for four years (almost to the day), a blog is more akin to a community. And the blogger...
Fierce Urgency. Now.
by Lee Stranahan Riffing on Krugman's concern, my biggest worry is big business selling us all out - laying off people they don't have to and not trying to ride out the crisis a little bit. I think...