Wedding Passages for Chelsea and Marc

Today, Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky are celebrating their wedding in Rhinebeck, NY, just up the road apiece from where my eldest daughter got her culinary arts degree from the CIA.  Anyone who has ever visited the Hudson Valley can attest to its natural beauty and wonderful cuisine. Anyway, I’d like to wish Chelsea and [...]

Clues to the Obama Administration’s Passive Response to the BP Disaster

“Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” — Rahm Emanuel Since the first weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, I have wondered why President Obama wasn’t using this tragedy as an opportunity to to shore up his [...]

If Barack Obama was in charge things would be different.

The Medium Lobster sums it up: We know that Barack Obama, in his heart of hearts, truly wants Real Change. We can tell this by examining the furrows of his brow as he squints meaningfully into the middle distance, by carefully measuring the sincerity-per-pixel count of his campaign posters, by reflecting on the inspirational Martin [...]

Thursday Mid-Morning News and Views

Hello Conflucians!!! Things must be really bad in Obot land these days, because TC is starting to get more trolls dropping in–reminders of the old days. They still think we’re “bitter,” too. janeandpaul, on July 29, 2010 at 12:59 am Said: Edit Comment oh please…keep up your petty vindictive judgements. you are worse than those [...]

Breaking News from “The View” – Obama Not Invited to Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding

The big question the women on The View had for President Obama today? they all wanted to know if he would be going to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. Obama started out by joking, “You don’t want two presidents at one wedding! All the secret service, guests going through (metal detectors), all the gifts being torn apart [...]

The Nutroots Are Nuts

Ian Welsh violates the “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” rule with an eyewitness report from Netroots Nation: I had a good time in Vegas, so I didn’t spend a huge amount of time at NN, but I did spend enough time to take in the mood, and it was schizophrenic. About half the [...]

Is Nature Trying To Tell Us Something?

More photos here. Here we go again. Last night there was another massive oil spill, this time in Michigan near the Kalamazoo River. Michigan Oil Spill May Be Largest In History Of Midwest Crews along the Kalamazoo River in Michigan were busy Tuesday skimming oil and placing booms to prevent further damage from what is [...]

Story of the Week: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Releases Afghanistan War Logs

The biggest story in the news today is the massive leak of government documents to three major newspapers: The UK Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel in Germany by Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. He has been called “The Robin Hood of Hacking.” As the founder and public face of WikiLeaks, which posts secretive [...]

The “creative class” – today’s “best and brightest”

(RalphB found this little gem and I decided to frontpage it) From Neal Gabler at The Boston Globe: WHEN AUTHOR David Halberstam wrote his account of what got this nation into Vietnam, he didn’t find that the architects of the war were obtuse or illogical or commie-obsessed or infatuated with American might. Instead, in Halberstam’s [...]

Mad Men Season 4 Starts Tonight: Another Ibsen Play?

So, I’ve waited since last November for Mad Men to start again.  Withdrawal symptoms have been severe.  I saved some old episodes on my DVR and watch them whenever there’s nothing good on.  And, let’s face it, compared to Mad Men, nothing on TV actually comes close.  You can watch a Mad Men scene a [...]