Posts Tagged ‘Meet the Press’
Thursday Night Links
* I just want to hear him deny it: Chris Christie Denies Falling Asleep at Springsteen Show.
* Top 10 dying industries in the United States. Top 10 fastest growing industries in the United States.
* But the preferences of developed, aging polities — first Japan, now the United States and Europe — are obvious to a dispassionate observer. Their overwhelming priority is to protect the purchasing power of incumbent creditors. That’s it. That’s everything. All other considerations are secondary.
* How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight. More here.
* I know some people who have this: Witzelsucht (the Germans just have the best words for everything, don’t they?) is a brain dysfunction that causes all sorts of compulsive silliness: bad jokes, corny puns, wacky behavior. It’s also sometimes called the “joking disease,” and as Taiwanese researchers phrased it in a 2005 report, it’s a “tendency to tell inappropriate and poor jokes.”
* Details on the coming Arrested Development revival on Netflix.
* Tumblr of the day: Context-Free Patent Art.
* Avengers vs Avengers XXX: I’ve just seen the film… the real film, the proper film. It’s quite possible that the porn parody will pass the Bechdel test, where the real film doesn’t…
* Drew Goddard talks to AICN about Cabin in the Woods.
* Back to the Future: The Pitch Meeting.
* Hey, Everyone — Stop Taking This Picture!
* Cheap theatrics, but okay, you got me: “President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Mich., April 18, 2012.”
* Actually existing media bias. (1)
* Actually existing media bias. (2)
* http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com/.
* In a 2008 study, Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl, now of the University of Maryland, found that young adults who practiced a stripped-down, less cartoonish version of the game also showed improvement in a fundamental cognitive ability known as “fluid” intelligence: the capacity to solve novel problems, to learn, to reason, to see connections and to get to the bottom of things. The implication was that playing the game literally makes people smarter.
* Eric Rabkin is doing an open course on fantasy and science fiction. Details at the link.
* And the strange case of Vatican v. Nuns.
The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States, saying that an investigation found that the group had “serious doctrinal problems.”
The Vatican’s assessment, issued on Wednesday, said that members of the group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, had challenged church teaching on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, and promoted “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”
The sisters were also reprimanded for making public statements that “disagree with or challenge the bishops, who are the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals.” During the debate over the health care overhaul in 2010, American bishops came out in opposition to the health plan, but dozens of sisters, many of whom belong to the Leadership Conference, signed a statement supporting it — support that provided crucial cover for the Obama administration in the battle over health care.
Written by gerrycanavan
April 19, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Three for Monday
* The final screwing: After all it’s cost to keep him, Evan Bayh will retire. But stay calm, citizens: there’s an outside chance the Tea Party will save Harry Reid.
* Rachel Maddow’s appearance on Meet the Press yesterday has spanned two separate must-see videos. She’s that good.
* Libertarianism defined, courtesy of Iain Banks.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 15, 2010 at 10:47 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Evan Bayh, Harry Reid, Iain M. Banks, libertarians, Meet the Press, politics, Rachel Maddow, Tea Party, the Senate
Powell Endorses
It hasn’t aired in North Carolina yet, but TPM reports that disgraced former Secretary of State American hero Colin Powell did indeed endorse Barack Obama this morning on Meet the Press. More at TPM Election Central.
UPDATE: Within a half hour, Drudge is there to pull the inevitable lever:
UPDATE 2: MSNBC has the video.
UPDATE 3: As I wrote in the comments, contrary to my expectations before watching it I found this a very eloquent and moving endorsement that among other things completely eviscerates the smear campaign McCain has run, most devastatingly the neo-McCarthyism of people like Michelle Bachmann and the really vile disparagement of Muslim-Americans from high-ranking officials in the Republican party. It’s one hell of an endorsement from a figure who still matters to a lot of people, if not to lefty bloggers.
Written by gerrycanavan
October 19, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged with Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Drudge, endorsements, general election 2008, Meet the Press, politics, race
A Few More While I’m Feeling Fiery
A few more while I’m feeling fiery.
* Speaking of our entrenched class of professional morons, there’s been a lot of good commentary today on the strikingly poor job Brokaw did interviewing Gore last Sunday. Just for starters, here’s Grist and OpenLeft.
* For some reason, The Nation now has a sex column. The subject of this and presumably every edition: How hot does Barack Obama make you?
Pretty hot, I guess.
* Inside Homeland Security Hell: Nine-Months-Pregnant Edition. More at Daily Kos.
By the time Mrs. Villegas was released from the county jail six days later, she had gone through labor with a sheriff’s officer standing guard in her hospital room, where one of her feet was cuffed to the bed most of the time. County officers barred her from seeing or speaking with her husband.
After she was discharged from the hospital, Mrs. Villegas was separated from her nursing infant for two days and barred from taking a breast pump into the jail, her lawyer and a doctor familiar with the case said. Her breasts became infected, and the newborn boy developed jaundice, they said.
Written by gerrycanavan
July 22, 2008 at 3:10 am
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged with Al Gore, Barack Obama, ecology, homeland security, immigration, Meet the Press, misogyny, our entrenched class of professional morons, police brutality, police state, pregnancy, sex, The Nation, Tom Brokaw