Sunday: “They think we are chumps”

Bill Moyers is on my $#@% list for becoming a toe sucking Obamaphile last year but he’s had some good interviews lately.  Last week, he had Glenn Greenwald and Jay Rosen on who shook their fingers at the press for being in the pockets of the bipartisan baddies while not acknowledging their own role in [...]

Rockaria

Electric Light Orchestra This is another one of them “open thread” thingies

Love Stinks

This thread is for everyone who isn’t out celebrating Valentine’s Day. Misery loves company, so pull up a chair, order a drink and tell us all about the person who broke your heart and burned the pieces.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

For the hopeless romantic: And a more complicated romance for the hopeless: Hope your Romeos, Juliets and Quasimodos brought you plenty of red roses and decadent chocolates.

The payoffs – and obstacles – to attending to women’s work in the current economy

Brace yourself. I know this will come as a great shock, but the economic stimulus package does not, in the opinion of genuine academics, address gender realities in the economy. From a must-read column by Professor Mimi Abramovitz: Contrary to popular wisdom, spending on services like health care and education produces a bigger bang for [...]

Saturday: The blame starts at the top

The stimulus package passed but it needed the meddling of Republicans and centrists to get it into a form where it was acceptable- to Republicans.  I suppose they threatened to filibuster.  It seems you can have an overwhelming majority of Democrats in the Senate and the Democrats can still get rolled by Republicans.  Funny that.  [...]

Freitag Steely Dan Open Thread

Deacon Blues

Why They Hate Us

Most of you are probably aware of the recent mental breakdown by David “My” Sirota at OpenLeft, wherein he went postal in a series of paranoid rants aimed at Clintonites, Naderites and anyone else on the political left who isn’t a Kool-aid chugging Obamite.  Over at Corrente Vastleft asked: The continued lashing out against PUMAs, ex-PUMAs, presumed PUMAs, etc. [...]

The Great Depression

Senate ALMOST finished passing Obama Stimulus Bill (Sherrod Brown (D) OH is at his mothers funeral and Obama has dispatched a plane to retrieve him so he can cast the 60th vote needed, result should be achieved by 10:30pm est tonight) When it passes, has Barack Obama saved us from this? and this: h/t to grayslady for this: Glenn [...]

A Little Side Step!

HOUSE PASSES OBAMA STIMULUS BILL! LET’S CELEBRATE !   OPEN THREAD TOO!