Month: March 2014

Open Thread

Not to harp on it, but what driftglass said. What’s on your mind today? We had an actual Spring day.

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This Should Disqualify You For Higher Office

Speaker of the North Carolina House and U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been lying about his college degree: A day after questions surfaced about his alma mater, U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis said where he went to...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates Issues a Challenge

Ta-Nehisi Coates issues an extraordinary challenge to the president and white progressives (not just Jonathan Chait) to dispose of their conviction “that poor black people are not ‘holding up their end of the...

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Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.449

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be continuing with the painting of the 1954 Hudson ruin. The photo that I will be using is seen directly below. I will be using my usual acrylics on an 8×10 gallery-wrapped...

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Sunday Morning Shows Can’t Get Worse or Better

Can the Sunday morning political shows get any better? How could they get worse? The beginning of the problem isn’t even identified by Paul Waldman. The beginning of the problem is that the programs are basically an...

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