Here’s the former Beatles’ 1971 visit to the Dick Cavett Show in its entirety, with Yoko in tow. You gotta take the bitter with the sweet: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: John Lennon On The Dick Cavett Show
I can’t tell you how many people have voiced the opinion in the past couple of weeks that the ongoing US union uprisingis just so terribly badly timed: In any event, the $989 million in pension liabilities Hostess ended up owing various union funds, according to its bankruptcy filing, didn’t accumulate in secret, like termite damage. It accrued because Hostess and its sister bakeries judged their retirement obligations to be relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Now that the bill has come due, Hostess blames the workers for demanding what they were promised. So rude. How dare they … Continue reading It’s Never Time to Fight Back
May I call you Andrew? Let me start with a few compliments. I think you’re doing a good job so far as Governor of the Empire State and I’m a *great admirer* of your father, Mario. Yeah, he left me at the altar in 1988 and 1992 but the man is too awesome to hold a grudge against. Of course, you know that, and are probably tired of hearing about your dad when you have your own national ambitions. Okey doke, that was the sweet part of this open letter, here’s the bitter. What on earth were you thinking when … Continue reading Dear Governor Cuomo:
I think I said this last year, but I find the bitching about Black Friday to be almost as tiresome as Black Friday itself. Go shopping if you want to go shopping, but honestly, the carping about how awful it all is just smacks of classism to me. Herf derf, lookit the stoopid poor people trying to get a cheap TV, how dare they? Um, well, stores are handing out hot chocolate to people in line and advertising “door buster” sales, and allowing people to camp on their property weeks in advance, so you’ll pardon me if I reserve my … Continue reading Black Friday
I need to start holiday baking and gift-making this year. I’m behind. Usually I like to be done by the time the Thanksgiving craziness rolls around. What’s your favorite holiday treat? (Bonus if you include a recipe for everybody.) A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
Well, folks – it felt a bit strange taking the “Paul Ryan” and “Mitt Romney’s flaccid penis” tags down and packing them away, but I think we’re all had enough of Mr. Forty-seven Percent to last us a lifetime.
So – let’s see what’s in the first drum of toxic Freepitude, shall we?
To: Thane_Banquo; All; FReepersLet not your heart be troubled. On Fox, Karl Rove is painting a
very good picture for a Republican win in Ohio, Florida and Virginia.I
realize Karl was not very popular hereabouts a few months ago but he’s
an astute observer of politics and an excellent numbers cruncher.
Steve Schmidt: GOP must muzzle Rush Limbaugh
Politico ^
Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 12:58:51 AM byWindy City Conservative
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt said early Wednesday morning on
MSNBC that it’s time for Republican leaders to stand up to “extreme
statements” and “nonsense” coming from within the GOP, including Rush
Limbaugh.“Now, people calling for revolution and these extreme
statements — when I talk about a civil war in the Republican Party, what
I mean is, it’s time for Republican elected leaders to stand up and to
repudiate this nonsense, and to repudiate it directly,” Schmidt said.*****************************
Time for this guy to go.
To: Windy City ConservativeWho is Steve Schmidt?
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posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:00:51 AM
byTruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: Windy City ConservativeRush is extreme. You can thank him for the Sandra Fluke
phenomenom and of coursse you can thank him for operation chaos four
years ago.
To: Windy City ConservativeAnother indication that the GOP is going to go the way of the Whigs.
The GOP establishment doesn’t realize thatthey’ve shot their last wad.
To: Windy City ConservativeThe republican establishment is kaput! They cannot put blame anywhere but on themselves.Theignoramuses of this country re-elected a communist. It’s not the conservative’s(sic) fault!
To: Windy City ConservativeAnybody have Steve Schimdt’s telephone number.
To: Windy City ConservativeI am enjoying the talk about revolution.
To: tshaunRush needs to learn not to takestinky bait like the Sandra Fluke thing and then doubling down
To: Terry Mross; AllWould not be surprised if folks like Rush like ended up being
“disappeared” by Federal Law enforcement/Dept. of Homeland Security in
the not to distant future.The open mass grave that is the history of the 20 century shows us
what will be happening in the country in the next 4 years & if you
think that American cops would never do something like round people up
for reeducation/liquidation bear one little fact in mind .In all of the genocides,pogroms,dealing with stubborn Kulaks,Great
Leaps Forward,final solution to the Jewish Question not once did the
police or the legal system stand up & say NO THIS IS WRONG WE WILL
NOT CARRY OUT THESE CRIMINAL ORDERS . Just the opposite is the grim
reality . Don’t say you haven’t been warned.Rush,Glenn Beck ,Mike Savage,Hannity would be wise to make plans on
how to get out of the country on really short notice & without
government permission, the key words being without government permission
failure to do so could lead to being in government custody for thought
crimes to a bullet in the back of the head.
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Gruesome grab-bag edition”
Here’s the former Beatles’ 1971 visit to theDick Cavett Show in its entirety, with Yoko in tow. You gotta take the bitter with the sweet: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: John Lennon On The Dick Cavett Show
Not. Again. The founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John O’Neill told Fox News’ Hannity that if Barack Obama nominates John Kerry to Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense the group will “do the very best we can” to protest the appointment. Twitter is full of this bitchery this morning, armchair warriors yelling about the sacredness of our military and how JOHN KERRY IS A GAY FAGGORT and all manner of other oldsauce nonsense. The only saving grace in trying to re-run smears is that in our brand-new information superhighway magical mystery Internet wonderland, anything we’ve heard more … Continue reading Oh NO YOU DON’T, Swift Boat Assholes
I’ve had this Deep Purple classic in my head for days so it’s time to share. This live version comes from a 1993 reunion of the Machine Head lineup featuring Ritchie Blackmore tearing it up on lead guitar: Continue reading Saturday Night Music: Highway Star
I’ve had this Deep Purple classic in my head for days so it’s time to share. This live version comes from a 1993 reunion of theMachine Head lineup featuring Ritchie Blackmore tearing it up on lead guitar: Continue reading Saturday Night Music: Highway Star
One of my favorite things to do when we’re having a party is leave the room. See, we live in this little hole in the wall. The silverware doesn’t match and the furniture has seen better days and no matter how much I dust, it seems like there are always corners that never truly get clean. I think the rug is 10 years old. That kind of stuff. Whenever we’re having a party it seems like the rooms are too small. Most of my friends my age have houses, with guest rooms that don’t double as storage, with yards and … Continue reading Thankful
I need to start holiday baking and gift-making this year. I’m behind. Usually I like to be done by the time the Thanksgiving craziness rolls around. What’s your favorite holiday treat? (Bonus if you include a recipe for everybody.) A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
Della wanted to photocopy her butt but lacking opposable thumbs, she couldn’t lift the lid. Happy black and white Friday, y’all: Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Printer Cat
A parting shot on Thanksgiving 2012. I’m thankful that Sly is still alive, even if he’s more or less living in a van down by the river: Continue reading Thursday Night Music: Thank You
Her name was Ellen Shoshany Kaim and she taught me the secret to life while we were waiting for a park board meeting to commence. A blizzard was pounding Madison, as wind swept across the isthmus from what seemed to be every direction. It was the kind of day where you wanted to sit home and do nothing. In my case, I had to work at the newspaper and I was praying for a quiet night of making cop calls and writing briefs out of the briefs bin. For reasons past my understanding, the dayside editor had received pressure from … Continue reading Giving thanks for Mrs. Kaim
TURKEE COMA: A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging
TURKEE COMA: A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging
I think I said this last year, but I find the bitching about Black Friday to be almost as tiresome as Black Friday itself. Go shopping if you want to go shopping, but honestly, the carping about how awful it all is just smacks of classism to me. Herf derf, lookit the stoopid poor people trying to get a cheap TV, how dare they? Um, well, stores are handing out hot chocolate to people in line and advertising “door buster” sales, and allowing people to camp on their property weeks in advance, so you’ll pardon me if I reserve my … Continue reading Black Friday
Della wanted to photocopy her butt but lacking opposable thumbs, she couldn’t lift the lid. Happy black and white Friday, y’all: Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Printer Cat
A parting shot on Thanksgiving 2012. I’m thankful that Sly is still alive, even if he’s more or less living in a van down by the river: Continue reading Thursday Night Music: Thank You
I’ve always liked Thanksgiving. You get to gorge yourself, drink too much and get into arguments with right wing relatives or just have your basic family fight. I’m grateful that we have a holiday about, well, gratitiude. I’m also thankful that one of my favorite films, Barry Levinson’s Avalon, has a Thanksgiving scene is that is clearly more awesome than Jude: I’m particularly grateful for our weird little online blog family here at First Draft. We’ve got it all: from a crazy ferret lady to a neurotic academic to an allegedly awesome former squid to a blonde lady in a … Continue reading Now Be Thankful
As a film buff and political history junkie, I *really* enjoyed Lincolnon both levels. I was a bit nervous about the tone because at his worst Spielberg’s film can be treacly and saccharine. BUT the film captured the rollicking, melancholy and devious complexity of the real Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis checked his hammy impulses at the door and disappeared into the role so I gotta give this latest opus a big thumbs up/4 stars/A kinda notice. Comparisons to our current body politic (corpus delicti?) are inevitable. It’s no surprise that I’m pretty sure that Lincoln would be a moderate Democrat nowadays. … Continue reading Spielberg’s Lincoln
Boardwalk
Empire impresario Terry Winter put the pedal to the medal with last week’s
entry, A Man, A Plan. Whereas the previous episode meandered in a concussive daze, episode-10 was
chock-full-O-payoffs and, not surprisingly, revenge.
Boxing
Day: Nucky’s war against Gyp Rosetti and Joe Masseria isn’t going
well. Not only does he lack allies, but Charlie Lucky and Meyer Lansky sold him
out to Masseria with tragic consequences for Margaret and IRA Man Owen. The
former had formally decided to run off with the latter but bootlegger
fratricide got in the way of their escape.
Owen,
of course, was deputized to whack Masseria. Unfortunately for the savvy and
experienced hit man, they saw him coming and the poor bastard was delivered to
the Atlantic City Ritz-Carlton in a crate hence the title of the post. Making
matters worse, Margaret was there for the delivery and flipped out. I think
even the usually clueless Nuckster may add 1 and 1 up and get 2 instead of 11.
Okay enough arithmetic, I don’t want to exhaust any Gopers who may be reading
this…
One of my favorite things to do when we’re having a party is leave the room. See, we live in this little hole in the wall. The silverware doesn’t match and the furniture has seen better days and no matter how much I dust, it seems like there are always corners that never truly get clean. I think the rug is 10 years old. That kind of stuff. Whenever we’re having a party it seems like the rooms are too small. Most of my friends my age have houses, with guest rooms that don’t double as storage, with yards and … Continue reading Thankful
FromAlbum4 At first I thought maybe they’d actually found Mitt Romney’s tax returns, but they said historic, not now-a-minor-footnote-to-a-historically-fraudulent-political campaign. But speaking of Mitt, I see karma (or can we call it Karlma, for Rove?) has come full circle, leaving him with…47 percent of the vote. Fitting. Have a happy and safe holiday. Continue reading Scientists Announce “Significant Discovery” By Curiosity Rover
A former colleague, Howard Ludwig, writes in his stay-at-home-dad column about some serious insanity overtaking the lifestyle section these days: A good number of at-home fathers I know dropped their collective jaws last month after reading an article titled “Navigating Play Dates with Stay-at-Home Dads.” Wilmette-based Make It Better, an online and print publication for families on the North Shore, produced the article. Tips include avoiding play dates with “a dad you find attractive” and asking your husband to chaperone a play date with a stay-at-home dad and his children. Now, the article was called to my attention by a … Continue reading Men and Women Must Not Speak, Lest They Screw
I guess I was wrong when I said Willard Mittbot Romney didn’t have any die-hard supporters. There was at least one guy dumb enough to do this in honor of his candidate. I hope he doesn’t run into PBJ, he might get slapped: Continue reading Caption This: Mitttwit Edition
Ooh, Republicans are upset that Republicans look like bad ideas now: On the Sunday talk shows, senior Republicans, former Romney surrogates and prominent conservatives piled on their defeated presidential nominee for telling donors that he lost because President Obama bought off minorities and young voters with “gifts.” “It’s nuts,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on ABC’s “This Week.” “I mean, first of all, it’s insulting. … The job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we can’t offer a better future that is believable to more people, we’re not going to win.” Rumored 2016 … Continue reading The Ownership Society
A former colleague, Howard Ludwig, writes in his stay-at-home-dad column aboutsome serious insanity overtaking the lifestyle section these days: A good number of at-home fathers I know dropped their collective jaws last month after reading an article titled “Navigating Play Dates with Stay-at-Home Dads.” Wilmette-based Make It Better, an online and print publication for families on the North Shore, produced the article. Tips include avoiding play dates with “a dad you find attractive” and asking your husband to chaperone a play date with a stay-at-home dad and his children. Now, the article was called to my attention by a group … Continue reading Men and Women Must Not Speak, Lest They Screw
A bunch of stuff in no particular order: 1. I haven’t been around here as much because I took a second job, and while it is awesome, it is also an office job, which I haven’t had in quite some time, and it involves a commute, which I also haven’t had in some time. Plus I have some volunteer commitments I was kind of hoping wouldn’t manifest for a couple more months that decided to be all OH HAI YOUR ATTENTION WE NEEDZ IT. Mr. A, who is working full-time and in grad school and running a nonprofit, you know, … Continue reading Like We’re Going to War