Make me laugh: Open Thread

OK Conflucians, we’ve had more depressing news this week than we certainly deserve.  Therefore, I’m ordering a cease and desist on gloom and doom, at least for this thread. I’m challenging you all to make me, and everyone else here, LAUGH.  What do you have in your bag ‘o’ tricks that will create spontaneous explosions [...]

Friday Morning News and Views: Friday the 13th Edition

Good Morning Conflucians! It’s a gloomy Friday the 13th here in the Boston area. I guess we’ll be getting hit with the tail end of Hurricane Ida over the next couple of days. I’m feeling a bit lethargic this morning, but I’ll try to locate a few interesting news links nonetheless. Please add your own [...]

When the President does it . . .

  This way to the Egress:   In the first major shakeup among President Barack Obama’s senior staff, White House Counsel Greg Craig is being pushed out in favor of veteran Democratic lawyer Bob Bauer because of a dispute over plans to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba, CNN has learned. The move will [...]

This ain’t your daddy’s Country and Western

Last night the Country Music Association had their annual awards show. Taylor Swift was the big CMA winner, with four awards: Album of the Year, Music Video of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year. For those of you who weren’t paying attention at the MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor [...]

Martha Coakley is a Shoo-In for the Massachusetts Senate Nomination!!

Breaking News from Politico: Pelosi Endorses Capuano! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be endorsing Rep. Michael Capuano in the Massachusetts Senate special election, choosing her House colleague over Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is seeking to become the first female senator in the state. Pelosi will be heading to Boston tomorrow morning to make the [...]

Thursday Morning! News!

This news is old as things go for this page but, it’s new to a lot of people and VERY exciting in my world: Neurologists at the University at Buffalo are beginning a research study that could overturn the prevailing wisdom on the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers will test the possibility that [...]

Somebody call a waah-mbulance!

Apparently Lambert got his feelings hurt because his comments got moderated here at The Confluence. He wasn’t banned, his comments just got put in the moderation queue and required approval before appearing. He was so upset he ran back to Corrente and put up a post complaining about how mean and unfair we are. Boo-fricking-hoo. [...]

Why is Health Care Reform Being Held Hostage by a Fundamentalist Cult?

No, I don’t mean the Catholic Church. I mean the super-secret, ultra-creepy fundamentalist sect that calls itself “the Family,” or “the Fellowship,” and they consider themselves a “core” of men responsible for changing the world. “Hitler, Lenin, and many others understood the power of a small core of people,” instructs a document given to an [...]

Coakley for President

It’s about damn time this started being said. (h/t Suburban Guerrilla): Coakley, in her boldest gamble of the campaign, said that fighting for women’s access to abortions was more important than passing the overall bill, despite its aim of providing coverage for 36 million people, establishing a public insurance option, and prohibiting insurers from discriminating [...]

Veterans Day Wake-up

Today is an annual holiday where we honor our military veterans with parades, ceremonies and discount sales. Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day on November 11, 1919 to celebrate the end of World War I, and it called that until it was changed by Congress to Veterans Day in 1954. There are approximately 25 million [...]