Dreams Come True? (a Valentine’s Day Open Thread)

I can’t say I’ve spent a lot of time dreaming of a white Valentine’s Day but, that’s what we’ve got this year! In fact at this rate, I’ll have a matched set of holiday photos for Christmas, New Years and now Valentines Day — PLEASE don’t let this happen on May Day too!! And I [...]

Valentines’ Day Wake-up

Good Sunday Morning Conflucians, and Happy Valentines Day.  I got home from a week-long business trip just in time to be with my sweetie!  Home is certainly where my heart is.  How about you? In any event, I’m up to my eyeballs in work projects so this mornings’ news is going to be sparse from [...]

Saturday Night Fun – an open thread

I’ve been so busy all week – catching up here at The Confluence, updating Eat4Today and WALKING that I’ve hardly had any time for my usual 40 hours of frivolous reading. Much less any significant amount of political reading. . . But, I happened to pick up a copy of Jim Hightower’s Lowdown and it [...]

Saturday Morning News and Views

Good Morning, Conflucians!!!! I’ve been surfing around the ‘net for awhile, and I’ve come up with a somewhat eclectic collection of links that mostly ignore current events in Washington DC. These are some stories that caught my eye. What are you reading? Is there anything big happening in the Village that I missed? First up: [...]

Woman’s Last Stand

I saw this yesterday at OpenLeft (H/T Natasha Chart).  It’s a parody of the Dodge Charger commercial that was shown during the Superbowl.  There’s something here for every woman.  I particularly identify with the asserting yourself at work statement. The genie was let out of the bottle in 2008.  The 2010 Superbowl ads were a [...]

Bye-Bye Rachel Ray, I found my true love

I can feel my arteries clogging already. This is an open thread.

Could Sarah win? Oh you betcha!

Pop quiz: Name the top five contenders for the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination 1. Sarah Palin 2. some white guy 3. some white guy 4. some white guy 5. some white guy There aren’t any official candidates yet, but there are several prominent Republicans trying to raise money and collect IOU’s from GOPers around the [...]

Friday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! TGIF! Of course the big news today is Bill Clinton’s hospitalization for chest discomfort. The latest report I can find says that he is doing well this morning and has been up and around. Former US President Clinton Doing Well After Heart Procedure Former President Bill Clinton’s cardiologist says Mr. Clinton has [...]

Prayers For the Big Dawg

the Big Dawg has been hospitalized in NY for a heart related issue. February 11, 2010 “Today President Bill Clinton was admitted to the Columbia Campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital after feeling discomfort in his chest. Following a visit to his cardiologist, he underwent a procedure to place two stents in one of his [...]

Fat is the new dirty

Historiann discusses the new “Let’s Move” initiative by Michelle Obama to end obesity in children: I haven’t had the time to do a lot of reading on “Let’s Move,” but I’m already struck by how rhetoric about obesity today tracks with the same concerns 200 years ago about civilizing American bodies through cleanliness, and children’s [...]