PSA: Keep those small disc batteries secured! (OPEN THREAD)

I came across an article in the New York Times and it’s common-sense content is something I had never previously contemplated. You know those tiny little coin-shaped lithium batteries that you put into watches, small remotes, and other tiny gadgets like those musical greeting cards we often give children?  Well imagine how much these little [...]

Sunday News Roundup

Good Morning Conflucians!!! It’s certainly been an interesting week. Let’s push off oil news for follow up posts and see what else is happening. Isreal rejects the idea of an international probe into the flotilla incident: Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. says his country rejects the idea of a having an international commission look into [...]

Saturday Night Dance Party at The Confluence & OPEN THREAD

OK TC’ers.  As your unofficial captain of the stress release brigade I’m ordering everyone to take a break from the negativity flowing from our current reality.  It’s Saturday night and we’re gonna let our hair down and DANCE DANCE DANCE.  Don’t like to dance? No worries, Rico (who by the way is looking mighty fine [...]

Oil Spill Coverup: What the President Knew and When He Knew It

Good Morning, Conflucians!! I shut down my computer early last night and watched the Dateline story on the Gulf, followed by Anderson Cooper. When I logged onto TC this morning, I read Dakinikat’s heartbreaking report from the Gulf and then started surfing around to find the latest news. Right away I found an article that [...]

Mickey Kaus is a goat-f**king moron

From Zsa Zsa’s Huff&Puff: Democrats are the party that believes in government, after all. We need to make it work for the majority of citizens. When teachers’ unions force the layoffs of good young teachers because their seniority principle is somehow sacrosanct–well, it’s not only individual public schools that suffer, but the whole idea of [...]

Friday News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!! TGIF!!! I’m a little behind schedule this morning. I stayed up late watching the Celtics lose to the Lakers alternating with Anderson Cooper decimating the BP and Obama administration response to the ecological and economic catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. OIL SPILL NEWS BP managed to get a cap in place [...]

We died, and no one even told us!

We’re dead. It’s all over, our time here on Earth is up. Chris “Creative Class” Bowers says so: Only five years ago, the progressive political blogosphere was still predominately a gathering place for amateur (that is, unpaid or barely paid) journalists and activists unattached to existing media companies and advocacy organizations. Those days are almost [...]

Television’s Last Sexy Lady: America Loses Rue McClanahan and Little Isis Loses a Childhood Hero

A TV heroine, Rue McClanahan, died today, and the world is a dimmer, sadder and more miserable place for it. McClanahan, who played man-happy Blanche Devereaux on the still-popular ’80s sitcom Golden Girls, had suffered a minor stroke earlier this year while recovering from bypass surgery. Lawrence adds that at the time of her death Thursday, [...]

Thursday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! I haven’t been able to spend much time here at TC for the past few days, and I’ve really missed you all. A close friend of my mom’s has been in the hospital in Indianapolis getting treatment for acute leukemia, so we have been driving in there to visit her and bring [...]

Jaw-droppers

Sometimes someone says something so outrageous and absurd you have to manually pick-up your lower jaw in order to close your mouth.  In the past week we have had a plethora of such statements.  Let’s start with Big Tent Democrat: It so happens that President Barack Obama is a GREAT politician. But he is not [...]