The Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Nebraska today Open thread?

I was raised (although not born) in Nebraska.  Today’s a good reminder of just one of the reasons that I’m glad I don’t live there any more.  There’s a few other things too.
Have I ever mentioned we have great food, great music, and great parties down here in New Orleans?  Oh, and I don’t have [...]

Keith Olbermann is a BOOB (open thread)

It’s national BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH YOU IDIOT!!!!
Keith Olbermann, today’s biggest boob in the world!!!
Well, the NFL was trying to do something nice by supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month with their Real Men Wear Pink campaign. Leave it to Keith Olbermann to say something completely Freudian on National TV.

digg!!! tweet!!! share!!!  [...]

Impermanence as Art

Sand Art by the Ukraine artist Kseniya Simonova. She won The Ukraine’s Got Talent! This is her interpretation of the German attack of 1945 on the Soviet Union.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with [...]

The Dakini’s Warm Breath

I’ve noticed that we’ve had a few threads where there has been some intense and heated discussion on topics difficult to discuss.  Racism, sexism and exploitation of human beings are not things that are easy to talk about rationally because there is no real rationale for any of these things to exist.  We feel undone [...]

There must be Rum in the Rum River … Only possible explanation

I lived in Minnesota for awhile in the mid 1990s.  Thankfully, not this part of Minnesota represented by Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann.  Sesame’s Street’s Elmo needs to send some tapes over there to improve the educational results in Lake Elmo and some of her other communities, I fear.  I’ve watched committee hearings with questioning by Bachmann [...]

When I grow up ….

I wanna be an old old old old woman …
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Yup, it’s Sunday night and, it’s an open thread ….
and you dream that you’re drinking a sazerac on Bayou Teche
and then there’s this dream ….

Saturday Night Open Thread (Echo Chamber Edition)

For all those folks with Confluence Envy or  who live in a Stalker’s Paradise, or hey, just those of you who think you’re smarter, and brighter than any one else, and dammit!  you like yourselves! or for that matter, those of you that have formed your own version of the thought and dogma purity police [...]

Saturday Night Last Bit of Summer Thread

I definitely don’t like the thought of summer ending shortly. I start classes again on the 19th of August and if you think the students don’t want school to start up again, try talking to a teacher. So, what are you going to miss about summer? What’s the last thing you have [...]

Now, That’s a first lady!

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

It’s Saturday Night!!
What’s on your mind?

Friday Evening Open Thread (Guillotine a Talking Head Night)

Down in the French Quarter, there’s a place called called Molly’s at the Market located at 1107 Decatur.  It’s an Irish style pub owned by the late Jim Monahan. It’s a hang out for media types, lawyer types, and political types as well as quarter folks, brass bands, and wonky professors. It was open during [...]