Sunday News and Other Fumbles

Good morning Conflucians! It’s cold in Virginia and there’s a lot of snow on the ground. The weather had been teasing us into thinking it was spring already with flowers and trees budding. And now this. Thanks to Indigogrrl for the use of her barn again. Just spectacular. Below is some of the weeks news plus [...]

Weird Weather Weekend Open Thread

It’s a weekend for strange weather. We’ve had heavy snow down south, and way below normal temperatures up here in New England. Dakinikat said it was only about 38 degrees down in New Orleans today. My aunt lives down on the coast in Alabama, and they only had temperatures in the 40s. Our Virginia Conflucians [...]

Halleluja! LOST returns on Tuesday! OPEN THREAD

I don’t know about you, but I’m giddy with excitement over the return of LOST; and while it’s the final season, I’m realllllly looking forward to more answers than questions. Any other LOST fans out there?  What are your theories for this final season? For the rest of you, this is an OPEN THREAD.  What’s [...]

Saturday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!!! It is 3 degrees here in the Boston western suburbs!! Nevertheless, we are better off than you guys in the southern states where there is a winter storm going on. Yesterday, Texas and Oklahoma got about a foot of snow, and today the storm will move east into the Carolinas and Virgina [...]

Open Thread: Hillary Loses Her Shoe, But Keeps Her Cool

Hillary is all over the “style sections” this evening. On her way to visit French President Sarkozy, she stepped right out of one of her shoes. But she never lost her cool! Does anyone else have some cheerful news you’d like to share? I think we could all use some smiles and laughter tonight, don’t [...]

Friday Morning: David Shuster is Not a Journalist

Good Morning Conflucians!!! TGIF!!!!!!!! It’s 12 degrees here in the Boston ‘burbs. We had a little January thaw–about four days of temps in around 50 degrees. It was great. But now we’re back in the deep freeze. In fact with the wind child factor, it feels like below zero. So I think I’m going to [...]

Nitecap and the Marquise de Merteuil

You guys probably have a head start on me.  I just got home from work after spending hours on a frakin’ Excel spreadsheet.  I HATE Microsoft.  Every app is so damn kludgy.  I need a drink.  Rico!  Some tequila please? In the meantime, let me direct your attention to this excellent smack down of Sally [...]

Thursday: So, there was a speech (and other news).

First of all, I don’t get this at all. I think Joan Walsh is just so desperate to say something nice she’s forgotten that by “spine” most of us mean something more than a lame joke: Finally, some spine In case he wasn’t fully aware Republicans are impervious to his political charm, President Obama saw [...]

Thursday Morning Open Thread

Some WTF moments from last night’s SOTU extravaganza: h/t CX4800: Chris Matthews “forgot he was black tonight for an hour.” WTF?! No. Obviously you didn’t forget. Chris Matthews needs to be put out to pasture. h/t Judge Alito commits a major breech of protocol when he shook his head and mouthed “not true” as Obama [...]

Post SOTU Open Thread

So what did you think? Did President Obama say anything that gave you any hope? Did he say anything that could be true? How many lies did you hear? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wwttxW5hMg