A Little Light Music (Open Thread)

I love this video! Eduard Khil (From Wikipedia): Khil’s manner of execution of songs is unique and easily recognizable in Russia, characterized by charm, always having a great sounding bright, sonorous voice and the flight of lyrical baritone, with the powerful charge of optimism and humour[5]. On the stage Gil kept very confident, smart, accompanying [...]

What Lambert said

Democrats in Congress worry that Obama will cave to GOP The liberals are watching three big tests over the next month to see whether the president is firmly in their corner: extending Bush-era tax cuts that are set to expire Dec. 31, ratifying a new nuclear-arms treaty with Russia and repealing the “don’t ask, don’t [...]

Disney – Supporting the Patriarchy since 1936

On November 24th, 2010 Walt Disney Pictures will be releasing its 50th animated feature film. The latest release, Tangled, is based on the German fairy tale Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm. Wikipedia: Once upon a time, a king and queen found that they were expecting a child. Unfortunately, the queen grew very ill during her [...]

Sunday News Roundup

Good Morning Conflucians!! Lets get to some crazy news from yesterday. Gawker obtained a stolen leaked copy of Sarah Palin’s latest book, and proceeded to publish large parts on their website. A very simple case of copyright infringement. There’s case law as summarized here: Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises, 471 U.S. 539 (1985)[1], was [...]

An unusually busy lame-duck session

Politico: A repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell?” Don’t bet on it. The window for action on reversing the ban on gays in the military is quickly closing, and the path to undoing the 17-year-old law is riddled with roadblocks: a crowded lame-duck calendar, Democratic defectors, and emboldened Republican senators who have no desire to [...]

Friday Night Cookout on Saturday Pre-Turkey Day Edition

Here’s my recipe for Easy-Peasy Green Bean Casserole: 8 slices of bacon 2 16 oz. cans of French cut green beans 1 medium onion 1 16 oz can sliced stewed tomatoes 1 can French’s French Fried Onions You can either chop the bacon and then fry it or fry it then crumble it. Either way [...]

You can’t make this stuff up

If you thought the progressive blogosphere lost its collective mind to Palin Derangement Syndrome two years ago, you ain’t seen nothing yet: Insiders: If Bristol Palin Wins, ‘Dancing’ Is Ruined At first, having Bristol Palin participate in ‘Dancing With The Stars’ seemed like a brilliant idea. Just like Kate Gosselin before her, casting an admittedly [...]

Obama must be drinking his own Kool-aid

“Another victory like this, and we’re done for” – Pyrrus Seriously. Jake Tapper: Huh? President Obama Tells Volunteers That In Midterms “You Guys Turned ‘Yes We Can’ Into ‘Yes We Did’ Members of Organizing for America – the president’s former campaign committee – received a text message today asking them to call 888-206-1431 “to hear [...]

The Knitting Diaries: Of Needles and Pins

Not that you can tell from the photos above, but I’ve spent most of this week working on the first sleeve of my sweater. The first couple of attempts failed because I just couldn’t stand the huge holes on either side of the extra stitches I cast on under the arm. Apparently, this is a [...]

A shitty post

Where does your shit go? I’m serious. You sit on the throne, grunt and groan, you hear a splash, you use some Charmin to clean up and then Whoosh, it’s gone! Gone where? Do you know? Some of you might be saying “It goes out to my septic tank.” Okay, but when the honey truck [...]