Archive for October 2010
MW: The TARP – Greatest Idea Evah?!
Posted by: madamab on: October 11, 2010
It’s been enlightening to see what the “too big to fail” banks have been doingwith the money they received from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, isn’t it? Although the TARP was supposed to increase lending, quite a few of the financial institutions involved have decided to hold on to the money instead. The Obama Administration’s dubious [...]
Lazy Sunday: We Love Them, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Posted by: chatblu on: October 10, 2010
- In: Music | Open Thread | You Tube
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I am skipping out of the request rotation today – I promise to continue with my list next Sunday. After writing the post about John Lennon for Saturday, it occurred to me that today is 10/10/10. Not only does this sort of thing occur once ever hundred years or so, but also that a “perfect ten” is [...]
MW: Imagine
Posted by: chatblu on: October 9, 2010
- In: Morning Widdershins | Music | You Tube
- 22 Comments
Today would be the 70th birthday of John Lennon. He was born October 9, 1940 in the Liverpool Maternity Hospital to Alfred and Julia Lennon. The Germans were bombing London at the time, and his father was a merchant seaman. Alfred went AWOL in 1943, then reappeared a year later to find his spouse pregnant [...]
Feminist Friday: Here We Go Again.
Posted by: madamab on: October 8, 2010
- In: Feminism | Media Tripe | misogyny | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Sexism | Women
- 28 Comments
Well, you knew it was going to happen. What with all the uppity wimminz that are running for office in 2010, did you doubt that rampant sexism would soon rear its ugly head? In September, Harry Reid, that sensitive and enlightened soul, called Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, ”the hottest member of the Senate.” He’s not a [...]
MW: The Washington Carousel
Posted by: chatblu on: October 7, 2010
Round and round she goes! So far, any number have grabbed the rings and bailed off of the ride. Who will be next? There’s lots of speculation that Robert Gibbs will be heading up the DNC and dear old Tim “Everything’s fine” Kaine will land in some sort of WH advisory position. Christine Romer’s already left along [...]
MW: One Nation Follow-Up
Posted by: chatblu on: October 5, 2010
We live-blogged the rally Saturday afternoon, watching Ed Schultz attempt to fire up both the crowd and the Democratic base. The turnout appeared decent, which comes as no particular surprise as it was backed by a number of labor unions. Unions have no trouble shipping members off to events as needed, and they appear to have come [...]
MW: Class Warfare
Posted by: chatblu on: October 4, 2010
Class warfare is defined as the tension between groups of differing social status. Today, that means the tensions between the upper 2% and the lower 98%, I guess. The Republican Party has fully embraced the concept that anyone who has the temerity to question the wealthy is immediately guilty of fostering class warfare. Personally, I [...]
Lazy Sunday: By Request:Science Fiction
Posted by: chatblu on: October 3, 2010
- In: movies | Open Thread | You Tube
- 59 Comments
H/T to MadamaB for this suggestion. Science fiction has long thrilled the American public. Even before cinema was mainstream, Orson Welles inadvertently created panic with “War of the Worlds” on the radio. Here are my fav five: (1)A Clockwork Orange (1971): Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian classic. (2) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): An early Stephen [...]
MW: No, We Won’t
Posted by: chatblu on: October 2, 2010
Today is the “One Nation Working Together” rally in Washington, DC. The march is being touted by the left-leaning press as the unification of multiple progressive factions in order to address the mess faced by the preponderance of Americans today. I honestly hope that this is true, and that it doesn’t deteriorate into a replay [...]
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